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In self-supervised learning (SSL), representations are learned via an auxiliary task without annotated labels. A common task is to classify augmentations or different modalities of the data, which share semantic content (e.g. an object in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Alice Bizeul , Bernhard Schölkopf , Carl Allen

Non-contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) is an effective framework for predictive representation learning, but popular (and in practice effective) methods such as SimSiam, BYOL, I-JEPA or DINO, which rely on a form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Michael Arbel , Basile Terver , Jean Ponce

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning approach where the data itself provides supervision, eliminating the need for external labels. The model is forced to learn about the data structure or context by solving a pretext task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Markus Marks , Manuel Knott , Neehar Kondapaneni , Elijah Cole , Thijs Defraeye , Fernando Perez-Cruz , Pietro Perona

In self-supervised representation learning, Siamese networks are a natural architecture for learning transformation-invariance by bringing representations of positive pairs closer together. But it is prone to collapse into a degenerate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Byeongchan Lee , Sehyun Lee

Self-supervised learning (SSL) learns high-quality representations from large pools of unlabeled training data. As datasets grow larger, it becomes crucial to identify the examples that contribute the most to learning such representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Siddharth Joshi , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) surmises that inputs and pairwise positive relationships are enough to learn meaningful representations. Although SSL has recently reached a milestone: outperforming supervised methods in many modalities\dots…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Randall Balestriero , Yann LeCun

State-of-the-art frameworks in self-supervised learning have recently shown that fully utilizing transformer-based models can lead to performance boost compared to conventional CNN models. Striving to maximize the mutual information of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jiho Jang , Seonhoon Kim , Kiyoon Yoo , Chaerin Kong , Jangho Kim , Nojun Kwak

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently emerged as a powerful approach to learning representations from large-scale unlabeled data, showing promising results in time series analysis. The self-supervised representation learning can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ziyu Liu , Azadeh Alavi , Minyi Li , Xiang Zhang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a scalable way to learn general visual representations since it learns without labels. However, large-scale unlabeled datasets in the wild often have long-tailed label distributions, where we know little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Hong Liu , Jeff Z. HaoChen , Adrien Gaidon , Tengyu Ma

To avoid collapse in self-supervised learning (SSL), a contrastive loss is widely used but often requires a large number of negative samples. Without negative samples yet achieving competitive performance, a recent work has attracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Chaoning Zhang , Kang Zhang , Chenshuang Zhang , Trung X. Pham , Chang D. Yoo , In So Kweon

Self-supervised learning (SSL) of graph neural networks is emerging as a promising way of leveraging unlabeled data. Currently, most methods are based on contrastive learning adapted from the image domain, which requires view generation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yaochen Xie , Zhao Xu , Shuiwang Ji

Decentralized learning has been advocated and widely deployed to make efficient use of distributed datasets, with an extensive focus on supervised learning (SL) problems. Unfortunately, the majority of real-world data are unlabeled and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Lirui Wang , Kaiqing Zhang , Yunzhu Li , Yonglong Tian , Russ Tedrake

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a paradigm that leverages unlabeled data for model training. Empirical studies show that SSL can achieve promising performance in distribution shift scenarios, where the downstream and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xuyang Zhao , Tianqi Du , Yisen Wang , Jun Yao , Weiran Huang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) provides a promising alternative for representation learning on hypergraphs without costly labels. However, existing hypergraph SSL models are mostly based on contrastive methods with the instance-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Fan Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Dawei Cheng , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) enables us to pre-train foundation models without costly labeled data. Among SSL methods, Contrastive Learning (CL) methods are better at obtaining accurate semantic representations in noise interference.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Hengtong Shen , Haiyan Gu , Haitao Li , Yi Yang , Agen Qiu

Sentence Representation Learning (SRL) is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), where contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is currently a mainstream approach. However, the reasons behind its remarkable effectiveness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Mingxin Li , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie

Contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) learns an embedding space that maps similar data pairs closer and dissimilar data pairs farther apart. Despite its success, one issue has been overlooked: the fairness aspect of representations…

This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

Self-supervised learning algorithms (SSL) based on instance discrimination have shown promising results, performing competitively or even outperforming supervised learning counterparts in some downstream tasks. Such approaches employ data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mohammad Alkhalefi , Georgios Leontidis , Mingjun Zhong