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Multimodal representation learning is commonly built on a shared-private decomposition, treating latent information as either common to all modalities or specific to one. This binary view is often inadequate: many factors are shared by only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-08 Huichao Li , Junhan Yu , Doudou Zhou

We consider human activity recognition (HAR) from wearable sensor data in manual-work processes, like warehouse order-picking. Such structured domains can often be partitioned into distinct process steps, e.g., packaging or transporting.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Stefan Lüdtke , Fernando Moya Rueda , Waqas Ahmed , Gernot A. Fink , Thomas Kirste

Contrastive learning demonstrates great promise for representation learning. Data augmentations play a critical role in contrastive learning by providing informative views of the data without necessitating explicit labels. Nonetheless, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Zihu Wang , Yu Wang , Zhuotong Chen , Hanbin Hu , Peng Li

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become one of the leading research topics of the last decade. As sensing technologies have matured and their economic costs have declined, a host of novel applications, e.g., in healthcare, industry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Fadi Al Machot , Graziano Pravadelli , Philipp H. Kindt

Graph augmentations are essential for graph contrastive learning. Most existing works use pre-defined random augmentations, which are usually unable to adapt to different input graphs and fail to consider the impact of different nodes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yifu Chen , Qianqian Ren , Liu Yong

Human activity recognition (HAR) with deep learning models relies on large amounts of labeled data, often challenging to obtain due to associated cost, time, and labor. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Dominique Nshimyimana , Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Sequential recommendation methods play a crucial role in modern recommender systems because of their ability to capture a user's dynamic interest from her/his historical interactions. Despite their success, we argue that these approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xu Xie , Fei Sun , Zhaoyang Liu , Shiwen Wu , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Bin Cui

Contrastive learning is one of the fastest growing research areas in machine learning due to its ability to learn useful representations without labeled data. However, contrastive learning is susceptible to feature suppression, i.e., it may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tianhong Li , Lijie Fan , Yuan Yuan , Hao He , Yonglong Tian , Rogerio Feris , Piotr Indyk , Dina Katabi

This short paper aims to discuss the effectiveness and performance of classical machine learning approaches for Human Activity Recognition (HAR). It proposes two important models - Extra Trees and Stacked Classifier with the emphasize on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ambareesh Ravi

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict the subsequent behaviors of users by understanding their successive historical behaviors. Recently, some methods for SR are devoted to alleviating the data sparsity problem (i.e., limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ziyang Wang , Huoyu Liu , Wei Wei , Yue Hu , Xian-Ling Mao , Shaojian He , Rui Fang , Dangyang chen

Medical datasets and especially biobanks, often contain extensive tabular data with rich clinical information in addition to images. In practice, clinicians typically have less data, both in terms of diversity and scale, but still wish to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Paul Hager , Martin J. Menten , Daniel Rueckert

Contrastive learning is commonly used as a method of self-supervised learning with the "anchor" and "positive" being two random augmentations of a given input image, and the "negative" is the set of all other images. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Rishab Balasubramanian , Kunal Rathore

Disease diagnosis from medical images via supervised learning is usually dependent on tedious, error-prone, and costly image labeling by medical experts. Alternatively, semi-supervised learning and self-supervised learning offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Attiano Purpura-Pontoniere , Demetri Terzopoulos , Adam Wang , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Learning self-supervised representations using reconstruction or contrastive losses improves performance and sample complexity of image-based and multimodal reinforcement learning (RL). Here, different self-supervised loss functions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Philipp Becker , Sebastian Mossburger , Fabian Otto , Gerhard Neumann

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been a research focus in the field of ubiquitous and mobile computing for years. In recent years, many deep models have been applied to HAR problems. However, deep learning methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Yujiao Hao , Boyu Wang , Rong Zheng

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a challenging problem that needs advanced solutions than using handcrafted features to achieve a desirable performance. Deep learning has been proposed as a solution to obtain more accurate HAR systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Hamed Damirchi , Rooholla Khorrambakht , Hamid Taghirad

Contrastive Learning (CL) performances as a rising approach to address the challenge of sparse and noisy recommendation data. Although having achieved promising results, most existing CL methods only perform either hand-crafted data or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor Sheng

This thesis investigates the effectiveness of SimCLR, a contrastive learning technique, in Greek letter recognition, focusing on the impact of various augmentation techniques. We pretrain the SimCLR backbone using the Alpub dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Vedasri Nakka , Andreas Fischer , Rolf Ingold , Lars Vogtlin

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a core task in pervasive computing systems, where models must operate under strict computational constraints while remaining robust to heterogeneous and evolving deployment conditions. Recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Aleksandr Bredikhin , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

Self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) methods have shown great success in computer vision. In recent studies, augmentation-based contrastive learning methods have been proposed for learning representations that are invariant or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Xia Xu , Jochen Triesch