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Contrastive learning is a powerful technique to learn representations that are semantically distinctive and geometrically invariant. While most of the earlier approaches have demonstrated its effectiveness on single-modality learning tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Anurag Jain , Yashaswi Verma

Graph representation learning plays a vital role in processing graph-structured data. However, prior arts on graph representation learning heavily rely on labeling information. To overcome this problem, inspired by the recent success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Ming Jin , Yizhen Zheng , Yuan-Fang Li , Chen Gong , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan

A prominent technique for self-supervised representation learning has been to contrast semantically similar and dissimilar pairs of samples. Without access to labels, dissimilar (negative) points are typically taken to be randomly sampled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ching-Yao Chuang , Joshua Robinson , Lin Yen-Chen , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka

Recently, self-supervised learning has attracted attention due to its remarkable ability to acquire meaningful representations for classification tasks without using semantic labels. This paper introduces a self-supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon

Self-supervised representation learning for visual pre-training has achieved remarkable success with sample (instance or pixel) discrimination and semantics discovery of instance, whereas there still exists a non-negligible gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Xiaoni Li , Yu Zhou , Yifei Zhang , Aoting Zhang , Wei Wang , Ning Jiang , Haiying Wu , Weiping Wang

Learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) methods have made impressive progress and surpassed traditional methods in recent years. However, their accuracy and completeness are still struggling. In this paper, we propose a new method to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yikang Ding , Zhenyang Li , Dihe Huang , Zhiheng Li , Kai Zhang

Masked image modelling (e.g., Masked AutoEncoder) and contrastive learning (e.g., Momentum Contrast) have shown impressive performance on unsupervised visual representation learning. This work presents Masked Contrastive Representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yuchong Yao , Nandakishor Desai , Marimuthu Palaniswami

Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as positives that should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault , Stéphane Canu

Self-supervised learning enables networks to learn discriminative features from massive data itself. Most state-of-the-art methods maximize the similarity between two augmentations of one image based on contrastive learning. By utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-05 Jidong Ge , Yuxiang Liu , Jie Gui , Lanting Fang , Ming Lin , James Tin-Yau Kwok , LiGuo Huang , Bin Luo

As data requirements continue to grow, efficient learning increasingly depends on the curation and distillation of high-value data rather than brute-force scaling of model sizes. In the case of a hyperspectral image (HSI), the challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhiroop Chatterjee , Susmita Ghosh

Ensuring the realism of computer-generated synthetic images is crucial to deep neural network (DNN) training. Due to different semantic distributions between synthetic and real-world captured datasets, there exists semantic mismatch between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Ganning Zhao , Tingwei Shen , Suya You , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Representation learning constitutes a pivotal cornerstone in contemporary deep learning paradigms, offering a conduit to elucidate distinctive features within the latent space and interpret the deep models. Nevertheless, the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Siyuan Dai , Kai Ye , Kun Zhao , Ge Cui , Haoteng Tang , Liang Zhan

Multimodal representation learning, exemplified by multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) using image-text pairs, aims to learn powerful representations by aligning cues across modalities. This approach relies on the core assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Erdun Gao , Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Contrastive learning has revolutionized the field of computer vision, learning rich representations from unlabeled data, which generalize well to diverse vision tasks. Consequently, it has become increasingly important to explain these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Fawaz Sammani , Boris Joukovsky , Nikos Deligiannis

Contrastive learning has emerged as an essential approach for self-supervised learning in visual representation learning. The central objective of contrastive learning is to maximize the similarities between two augmented versions of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hengkui Dong , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li , Lei Chen

Inspired by the impressive success of contrastive learning (CL), a variety of graph augmentation strategies have been employed to learn node representations in a self-supervised manner. Existing methods construct the contrastive samples by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Peiyao Zhao , Yuangang Pan , Xin Li , Xu Chen , Ivor W. Tsang , Lejian Liao

Heterogeneous gap among different modalities emerges as one of the critical issues in modern AI problems. Unlike traditional uni-modal cases, where raw features are extracted and directly measured, the heterogeneous nature of cross modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Aiwen Jiang , Hanxi Li , Yi Li , Mingwen Wang

Existing Masked Image Modeling methods apply fixed mask patterns to guide the self-supervised training. As those mask patterns resort to different criteria to depict image contents, sticking to a fixed pattern leads to a limited vision cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhanzhou Feng , Shiliang Zhang

Math word problem solver requires both precise relation reasoning about quantities in the text and reliable generation for the diverse equation. Current sequence-to-tree or relation extraction methods regard this only from a fixed view,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Wenqi Zhang , Yongliang Shen , Yanna Ma , Xiaoxia Cheng , Zeqi Tan , Qingpeng Nong , Weiming Lu

Medical image labels are often organized by taxonomies (e.g., organ - tissue - subtype), yet standard self-supervised learning (SSL) ignores this structure. We present a hierarchy-preserving contrastive framework that makes the label tree a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 Alif Elham Khan