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We present a self-supervised learning method to learn audio and video representations. Prior work uses the natural correspondence between audio and video to define a standard cross-modal instance discrimination task, where a model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pedro Morgado , Ishan Misra , Nuno Vasconcelos

New advancements in radio data post-processing are underway within the SKA precursor community, aiming to facilitate the extraction of scientific results from survey images through a semi-automated approach. Several of these developments…

Contrastive pre-training on distant supervision has shown remarkable effectiveness in improving supervised relation extraction tasks. However, the existing methods ignore the intrinsic noise of distant supervision during the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Zhen Wan , Fei Cheng , Qianying Liu , Zhuoyuan Mao , Haiyue Song , Sadao Kurohashi

Self-supervised pretraining on unlabeled data followed by supervised fine-tuning on labeled data is a popular paradigm for learning from limited labeled examples. We extend this paradigm to the classical positive unlabeled (PU) setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Anish Acharya , Sujay Sanghavi , Li Jing , Bhargav Bhushanam , Dhruv Choudhary , Michael Rabbat , Inderjit Dhillon

Robust radio signal recognition is fundamental to spectrum management, electromagnetic space security, and intelligent wireless applications, yet existing deep-learning methods rely heavily on large labeled datasets and struggle to capture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shilian Zheng , Jie Chen , Luxin Zhang , Xiaoniu Yang

Datasets for biosignals, such as electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG), often have noisy labels and have limited number of subjects (<100). To handle these challenges, we propose a self-supervised approach based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Joseph Y. Cheng , Hanlin Goh , Kaan Dogrusoz , Oncel Tuzel , Erdrin Azemi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) offers a powerful way to learn robust, generalizable representations without labeled data. In music, where labeled data is scarce, existing SSL methods typically use generated supervision and multi-view…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Julia Wilkins , Sivan Ding , Magdalena Fuentes , Juan Pablo Bello

Self-supervised contrastive learning is a powerful tool to learn visual representation without labels. Prior work has primarily focused on evaluating the recognition accuracy of various pre-training algorithms, but has overlooked other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yuanyi Zhong , Haoran Tang , Junkun Chen , Jian Peng , Yu-Xiong Wang

Existing contrastive learning methods for anomalous sound detection refine the audio representation of each audio sample by using the contrast between the samples' augmentations (e.g., with time or frequency masking). However, they might be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jian Guan , Feiyang Xiao , Youde Liu , Qiaoxi Zhu , Wenwu Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches, such as contrastive and generative methods, have advanced environmental sound representation learning using unlabeled data. However, how these approaches can complement each other within a unified…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sivan Ding , Julia Wilkins , Magdalena Fuentes , Juan Pablo Bello

Recent progress in contrastive learning has revolutionized unsupervised representation learning. Concretely, multiple views (augmentations) from the same image are encouraged to map to the similar embeddings, while views from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Nanxuan Zhao , Zhirong Wu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Stephen Lin

Semi-supervised learning methods have shown promising results in solving many practical problems when only a few labels are available. The existing methods assume that the class distributions of labeled and unlabeled data are equal;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Min Gu Kwak , Hyungu Kahng , Seoung Bum Kim

Recent contrastive methods show significant improvement in self-supervised learning in several domains. In particular, contrastive methods are most effective where data augmentation can be easily constructed e.g. in computer vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Denis Gudovskiy , Kazuki Kozuka , Iku Ohama , Luca Rigazio

We present a contrasting learning approach with data augmentation techniques to learn document representations in an unsupervised manner. Inspired by recent contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms used for image and NLP pretraining,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Dongsheng Luo , Wei Cheng , Jingchao Ni , Wenchao Yu , Xuchao Zhang , Bo Zong , Yanchi Liu , Zhengzhang Chen , Dongjin Song , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

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

Contrastive learning enables learning useful audio and speech representations without ground-truth labels by maximizing the similarity between latent representations of similar signal segments. In this framework various data augmentation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Salah Zaiem , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid

Self-supervision is one of the hallmarks of representation learning in the increasingly popular suite of foundation models including large language models such as BERT and GPT-3, but it has not been pursued in the context of multivariate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Xiao Shou , Dharmashankar Subramanian , Debarun Bhattacharjya , Tian Gao , Kristin P. Bennet

Modeling various aspects that make a music piece unique is a challenging task, requiring the combination of multiple sources of information. Deep learning is commonly used to obtain representations using various sources of information, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Andres Ferraro , Xavier Favory , Konstantinos Drossos , Yuntae Kim , Dmitry Bogdanov

In medical imaging, manual annotations can be expensive to acquire and sometimes infeasible to access, making conventional deep learning-based models difficult to scale. As a result, it would be beneficial if useful representations could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Jianbo Jiao , Yifan Cai , Mohammad Alsharid , Lior Drukker , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a key technology to enable more natural human-machine communication. However, SER has long suffered from a lack of public large-scale labeled datasets. To circumvent this problem, we investigate how…