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A mainstream type of current self-supervised learning methods pursues a general-purpose representation that can be well transferred to downstream tasks, typically by optimizing on a given pretext task such as instance discrimination. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Xin Liu , Zhongdao Wang , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

Preserving maximal information is one of principles of designing self-supervised learning methodologies. To reach this goal, contrastive learning adopts an implicit way which is contrasting image pairs. However, we believe it is not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chixiang Lu , Sibei Yang , Xiaoguang Han , Yizhou Yu

Robust frame-wise embeddings are essential to perform video analysis and understanding tasks. We present a self-supervised method for representation learning based on aligning temporal video sequences. Our framework uses a transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Keyne Oei , Amr Gomaa , Anna Maria Feit , João Belo

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

Predicting and reasoning about the future lie at the heart of many time-series questions. For example, goal-conditioned reinforcement learning can be viewed as learning representations to predict which states are likely to be visited in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chongyi Zheng , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Benjamin Eysenbach

Most dialogue systems in real world rely on predefined intents and answers for QA service, so discovering potential intents from large corpus previously is really important for building such dialogue services. Considering that most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Feng Wei , Zhenbo Chen , Zhenghong Hao , Fengxin Yang , Hua Wei , Bing Han , Sheng Guo

Traditional supervised learning methods are hitting a bottleneck because of their dependency on expensive manually labeled data and their weaknesses such as limited generalization ability and vulnerability to adversarial attacks. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ran Liu

Machine hearing or listening represents an emerging area. Conventional approaches rely on the design of handcrafted features specialized to a specific audio task and that can hardly generalized to other audio fields. For example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Imad Rida , Romain Hérault , Gilles Gasso

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful technique in audio-visual representation learning, leveraging the natural co-occurrence of audio and visual modalities in webscale video datasets. However, conventional contrastive audio-visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ioannis Tsiamas , Santiago Pascual , Chunghsin Yeh , Joan Serrà

We present a self-supervised learning (SSL) method suitable for semi-global tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. We enforce local consistency between self-learned features, representing corresponding image locations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ashraful Islam , Ben Lundell , Harpreet Sawhney , Sudipta Sinha , Peter Morales , Richard J. Radke

We introduce a simple neural encoder architecture that can be trained using an unsupervised contrastive learning objective which gets its positive samples from data-augmented k-Nearest Neighbors search. We show that when built on top of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Robin Algayres , Adel Nabli , Benoit Sagot , Emmanuel Dupoux

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

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

In the past few years, we have witnessed remarkable breakthroughs in self-supervised representation learning. Despite the success and adoption of representations learned through this paradigm, much is yet to be understood about how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Klemen Kotar , Gabriel Ilharco , Ludwig Schmidt , Kiana Ehsani , Roozbeh Mottaghi

State-of-the-art model for zero-shot cross-lingual spoken language understanding performs cross-lingual unsupervised contrastive learning to achieve the label-agnostic semantic alignment between each utterance and its code-switched data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Bowen Xing , Ivor W. Tsang

This paper presents Prototypical Contrastive Learning (PCL), an unsupervised representation learning method that addresses the fundamental limitations of instance-wise contrastive learning. PCL not only learns low-level features for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Junnan Li , Pan Zhou , Caiming Xiong , Steven C. H. Hoi

Artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated to play a pivotal role in 6G. However, a key challenge in developing AI-powered solutions is the extensive data collection and labeling efforts required to train supervised deep learning models.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Ogechukwu Kanu , Ashkan Eshaghbeigi , Hatem Abou-Zeid

This paper presents a self-supervised feature learning method for hyperspectral image classification. Our method tries to construct two different views of the raw hyperspectral image through a cross-representation learning method. And then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Anyu Zhang , Haotian Wu , Zeyu Cao

Most multi-view clustering methods are limited by shallow models without sound nonlinear information perception capability, or fail to effectively exploit complementary information hidden in different views. To tackle these issues, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Fu Lele , Zhang Lei , Yang Jinghua , Chen Chuan , Zhang Chuanfu , Zheng Zibin

Semi-supervised learning acts as an effective way to leverage massive unlabeled data. In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy, termed as Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning (SsCL), which combines the well-known contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yuhang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Robert. C. Qiu , Jie Li , Haohang Xu , Qi Tian