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Self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) effectively learns transferable representations from unlabeled data containing images or image-text pairs but suffers vulnerability to data poisoning backdoor attacks (DPCLs). An adversary can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tuo Chen , Jie Gui , Minjing Dong , Ju Jia , Lanting Fang , Jian Liu

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have brought tremendous success across many tasks and domains. It has been argued that these successes can be attributed to a link between SSL and identifiable representation learning: Temporal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Rodrigo González Laiz , Tobias Schmidt , Steffen Schneider

Contrastive learning is a promising approach to unsupervised learning, as it inherits the advantages of well-studied deep models without a dedicated and complex model design. In this paper, based on bidirectional encoder representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Haoxiang Shi , Cen Wang

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) including the mainstream contrastive learning has achieved great success in learning visual representations without data annotations. However, most methods mainly focus on the instance level information (\ie,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Self-supervised Contrastive Learning (CL) has been recently shown to be very effective in preventing deep networks from overfitting noisy labels. Despite its empirical success, the theoretical understanding of the effect of contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yihao Xue , Kyle Whitecross , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

This paper presents Prototypical Contrastive Learning (PCL), an unsupervised representation learning method that addresses the fundamental limitations of instance-wise contrastive learning. PCL not only learns low-level features for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Junnan Li , Pan Zhou , Caiming Xiong , Steven C. H. Hoi

Cell identification within the H&E slides is an essential prerequisite that can pave the way towards further pathology analyses including tissue classification, cancer grading, and phenotype prediction. However, performing such a task using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ramin Nakhli , Amirali Darbandsari , Hossein Farahani , Ali Bashashati

This paper is concerned with contrastive learning (CL) for low-level image restoration and enhancement tasks. We propose a new label-efficient learning paradigm based on residuals, residual contrastive learning (RCL), and derive an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Nanqing Dong , Matteo Maggioni , Yongxin Yang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

This paper explores useful modifications of the recent development in contrastive learning via novel probabilistic modeling. We derive a particular form of contrastive loss named Joint Contrastive Learning (JCL). JCL implicitly involves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qi Cai , Yu Wang , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Supervised Contrastive Loss (SCL) is popular in visual representation learning. Given an anchor image, SCL pulls two types of positive samples, i.e., its augmentation and other images from the same class together, while pushes negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shiyu Xuan , Shiliang Zhang

State-of-the-art natural language understanding classification models follow two-stages: pre-training a large language model on an auxiliary task, and then fine-tuning the model on a task-specific labeled dataset using cross-entropy loss.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Beliz Gunel , Jingfei Du , Alexis Conneau , Ves Stoyanov

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang

The objective of this paper is to learn semantic representations for sleep stage classification from raw physiological time series. Although supervised methods have gained remarkable performance, they are limited in clinical situations due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Hongjun Zhang , Jing Wang , Qinfeng Xiao , Jiaoxue Deng , Youfang Lin

For low-semantic sensor signals from human activity recognition (HAR), contrastive learning (CL) is essential to implement novel applications or generic models without manual annotation, which is a high-performance self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Qingyu Wu , Jianfei Shen , Feiyi Fan , Yang Gu , Chenyang Xu , Yiqiang Chen

Model quantization is critical for deploying large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained hardware, yet recent work has revealed severe security risks that benign LLMs in full precision may exhibit malicious behaviors after…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Dinghong Song , Zhiwei Xu , Hai Wan , Xibin Zhao , Pengfei Su , Dong Li

Despite recent success of self-supervised based contrastive learning model for 3D point clouds representation, the adversarial robustness of such pre-trained models raised concerns. Adversarial contrastive learning (ACL) is considered an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Junxuan Huang , Yatong An , Lu cheng , Bai Chen , Junsong Yuan , Chunming Qiao

Natural language inference (NLI) is an increasingly important task for natural language understanding, which requires one to infer the relationship between the sentence pair (premise and hypothesis). Many recent works have used contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Shu'ang Li , Xuming Hu , Li Lin , Lijie Wen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks such as image classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can cause incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Suklav Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Arijit Sur

The learn-to-compare paradigm of contrastive representation learning (CRL), which compares positive samples with negative ones for representation learning, has achieved great success in a wide range of domains, including natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Lanling Xu , Jianxun Lian , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Daxin Jiang , Xing Xie , Ji-Rong Wen