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We propose a novel self-supervised approach for learning audio and visual representations from unlabeled videos, based on their correspondence. The approach uses an attention mechanism to learn the relative importance of convolutional…

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Despite the widespread use of unsupervised models, very few methods are designed to explain them. Most explanation methods explain a scalar model output. However, unsupervised models output representation vectors, the elements of which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Chris Lin , Hugh Chen , Chanwoo Kim , Su-In Lee

Vocoder models have recently achieved substantial progress in generating authentic audio comparable to human quality while significantly reducing memory requirement and inference time. However, these data-hungry generative models require…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Haoming Guo , Seth Z. Zhao , Jiachen Lian , Gopala Anumanchipalli , Gerald Friedland

Recently, neural networks have shown impressive progress across diverse fields, with speech processing being no exception. However, recent breakthroughs in this area require extensive offline training using large datasets and tremendous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Umberto Cappellazzo , Enrico Fini , Muqiao Yang , Daniele Falavigna , Alessio Brutti , Bhiksha Raj

Contrastive learning is commonly applied to self-supervised learning, and has been shown to outperform traditional approaches such as the triplet loss and N-pair loss. However, the requirement of large batch sizes and memory banks has made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Rishab Balasubramanian , Rupashree Dey , Kunal Rathore

A study is presented in which a contrastive learning approach is used to extract low-dimensional representations of the acoustic environment from single-channel, reverberant speech signals. Convolution of room impulse responses (RIRs) with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Philipp Götz , Cagdas Tuna , Andreas Walther , Emanuël A. P. Habets

We present an approach to learn voice-face representations from the talking face videos, without any identity labels. Previous works employ cross-modal instance discrimination tasks to establish the correlation of voice and face. These…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Boqing Zhu , Kele Xu , Changjian Wang , Zheng Qin , Tao Sun , Huaimin Wang , Yuxing Peng

Contrastive learning is a popular form of self-supervised learning that encourages augmentations (views) of the same input to have more similar representations compared to augmentations of different inputs. Recent attempts to theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikunj Saunshi , Jordan Ash , Surbhi Goel , Dipendra Misra , Cyril Zhang , Sanjeev Arora , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy

Recently, pretext-task based methods are proposed one after another in self-supervised video feature learning. Meanwhile, contrastive learning methods also yield good performance. Usually, new methods can beat previous ones as claimed that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Li Tao , Xueting Wang , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Contrastive Self-supervised Learning (CSL) is a practical solution that learns meaningful visual representations from massive data in an unsupervised approach. The ordinary CSL embeds the features extracted from neural networks onto…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Shentong Mo , Zhun Sun , Chao Li

Session-based recommendation, which aims to predict the next item of users' interest as per an existing sequence interaction of items, has attracted growing applications of Contrastive Learning (CL) with improved user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zhengxiang Shi , Xi Wang , Aldo Lipani

Deep Learning (DL) models to analyze source code have shown immense promise during the past few years. More recently, self-supervised pre-training has gained traction for learning generic code representations valuable for many downstream SE…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yangruibo Ding , Saikat Chakraborty , Luca Buratti , Saurabh Pujar , Alessandro Morari , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

Modern self-supervised learning algorithms typically enforce persistency of instance representations across views. While being very effective on learning holistic image and video representations, such an objective becomes sub-optimal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Liangzhe Yuan , Rui Qian , Yin Cui , Boqing Gong , Florian Schroff , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Hartwig Adam , Ting Liu

Self-supervised pretraining has been shown to yield powerful representations for transfer learning. These performance gains come at a large computational cost however, with state-of-the-art methods requiring an order of magnitude more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Olivier J. Hénaff , Skanda Koppula , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals , João Carreira

Human auditory perception is compositional in nature -- we identify auditory streams from auditory scenes with multiple sound events. However, such auditory scenes are typically represented using clip-level representations that do not…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Sripathi Sridhar , Mark Cartwright

Contrastive learning is an approach to representation learning that utilizes naturally occurring similar and dissimilar pairs of data points to find useful embeddings of data. In the context of document classification under topic modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Christopher Tosh , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Daniel Hsu

In recent times, contrastive learning based loss functions have become increasingly popular for visual self-supervised representation learning owing to their state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Most of the modern contrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Chaitanya Animesh , Manmohan Chandraker

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve preliminary generalization through pretraining on large scale robot teleoperation datasets. However, acquiring datasets that comprehensively cover diverse tasks and environments is extremely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Weisheng Dai , Kai Lan , Jianyi Zhou , Bo Zhao , Xiu Su , Junwen Tong , Weili Guan , Shuo Yang

Advances in Generative AI have made video-level deepfake detection increasingly challenging, exposing the limitations of current detection techniques. In this paper, we present HOLA, our solution to the Video-Level Deepfake Detection track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xuecheng Wu , Danlei Huang , Heli Sun , Xinyi Yin , Yifan Wang , Hao Wang , Jia Zhang , Fei Wang , Peihao Guo , Suyu Xing , Junxiao Xue , Liang He

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful technique in audio-visual representation learning, leveraging the natural co-occurrence of audio and visual modalities in webscale video datasets. However, conventional contrastive audio-visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ioannis Tsiamas , Santiago Pascual , Chunghsin Yeh , Joan Serrà