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Sign language recognition (SLR) is a machine learning task aiming to identify signs in videos. Due to the scarcity of annotated data, unsupervised methods like contrastive learning have become promising in this field. They learn meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ariel Basso Madjoukeng , Jérôme Fink , Pierre Poitier , Edith Belise Kenmogne , Benoit Frenay

Visual recognition is recently learned via either supervised learning on human-annotated image-label data or language-image contrastive learning with webly-crawled image-text pairs. While supervised learning may result in a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Bin Xiao , Ce Liu , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

Self-supervised learning has recently emerged as a strong alternative in document analysis. These approaches are now capable of learning high-quality image representations and overcoming the limitations of supervised methods, which require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Marwa Dhiaf , Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Kai Wang , Yuyang Liu , Yousri Kessentini , Alicia Fornés , Ahmed Cheikh Rouhou

Recently, various contrastive learning techniques have been developed to categorize time series data and exhibit promising performance. A general paradigm is to utilize appropriate augmentations and construct feasible positive samples such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Qianying Ren , Dongsheng Luo , Dongjin Song

We tackle open-world semantic segmentation, which aims at learning to segment arbitrary visual concepts in images, by using only image-text pairs without dense annotations. Existing open-world segmentation methods have shown impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Junbum Cha , Jonghwan Mun , Byungseok Roh

We propose an end-to-end recurrent encoder-decoder based sequence learning approach for printed text Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In contrast to present day existing state-of-art OCR solution which uses connectionist temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Devendra Kumar Sahu , Mohak Sukhwani

Contrastive self-supervised learning has been successfully used in many domains, such as images, texts, graphs, etc., to learn features without requiring label information. In this paper, we propose a new local contrastive feature learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Zhabiz Gharibshah , Xingquan Zhu

Contrastive learning has been frequently investigated to learn effective representations for text clustering tasks. While existing contrastive learning-based text clustering methods only focus on modeling instance-wise semantic similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Qian Yong , Chen Chen , Xiabing Zhou

In this work, we aim to consider the application of contrastive learning in the scenario of the recommendation system adequately, making it more suitable for recommendation task. We propose a learning paradigm called supervised contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Chun Yang

Text classification is a crucial and fundamental task in web content mining. Compared with the previous learning paradigm of pre-training and fine-tuning by cross entropy loss, the recently proposed supervised contrastive learning approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Mengyu Li , Yonghao Liu , Fausto Giunchiglia , Ximing Li , Xiaoyue Feng , Renchu Guan

Existing text recognition methods usually need large-scale training data. Most of them rely on synthetic training data due to the lack of annotated real images. However, there is a domain gap between the synthetic data and real data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mingkun Yang , Minghui Liao , Pu Lu , Jing Wang , Shenggao Zhu , Hualin Luo , Qi Tian , Xiang Bai

Recent breakthroughs in the field of semi-supervised learning have achieved results that match state-of-the-art traditional supervised learning methods. Most successful semi-supervised learning approaches in computer vision focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Khoi Nguyen , Yen Nguyen , Bao Le

Supervised contrastive learning (SCL) frameworks treat each class as independent and thus consider all classes to be equally important. This neglects the common scenario in which label hierarchy exists, where fine-grained classes under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Ruixue Lian , William A. Sethares , Junjie Hu

Graph clustering is a crucial task in network analysis with widespread applications, focusing on partitioning nodes into distinct groups with stronger intra-group connections than inter-group ones. Recently, contrastive learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xunlian Wu , Jingqi Hu , Anqi Zhang , Yining Quan , Qiguang Miao , Peng Gang Sun

Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image and text retrieval. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) trains two neural networks in contrastive manner to align their image and text embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kwun Ho Ngan , Saman Sadeghi Afgeh , Joe Townsend , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Contrastive learning has been widely applied to graph representation learning, where the view generators play a vital role in generating effective contrastive samples. Most of the existing contrastive learning methods employ pre-defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yihang Yin , Qingzhong Wang , Siyu Huang , Haoyi Xiong , Xiang Zhang

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

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

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

Despite exciting progress in causal language models, the expressiveness of the representations is largely limited due to poor discrimination ability. To remedy this issue, we present ContraCLM, a novel contrastive learning framework at both…