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Distribution shifts are problems where the distribution of data changes between training and testing, which can significantly degrade the performance of a model deployed in the real world. Recent studies suggest that one reason for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Takuro Kutsuna

Intelligent fault diagnosis has made extraordinary advancements currently. Nonetheless, few works tackle class-incremental learning for fault diagnosis under limited fault data, i.e., imbalanced and long-tailed fault diagnosis, which brings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Peng Peng , Hanrong Zhang , Mengxuan Li , Gongzhuang Peng , Hongwei Wang , Weiming Shen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as an effective collaborative filtering (CF) approaches for recommender systems. The key idea of GNN-based recommender systems is to recursively perform message passing along user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yangqin Jiang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia

Self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition enjoys a rapid growth along with the development of contrastive learning. The existing methods rely on imposing invariance to augmentations of 3D skeleton within a single data stream, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ding Li , Yongqiang Tang , Zhizhong Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

Graph clustering discovers groups or communities within networks. Deep learning methods such as autoencoders (AE) extract effective clustering and downstream representations but cannot incorporate rich structural information. While Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Gayan K. Kulatilleke , Marius Portmann , Shekhar S. Chandra

Real-world data often exhibits long tail distributions with heavy class imbalance, where the majority classes can dominate the training process and alter the decision boundaries of the minority classes. Recently, researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Tianhong Li , Peng Cao , Yuan Yuan , Lijie Fan , Yuzhe Yang , Rogerio Feris , Piotr Indyk , Dina Katabi

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Standard contrastive learning approaches usually require a large number of negatives for effective unsupervised learning and often exhibit slow convergence. We suspect this behavior is due to the suboptimal selection of negatives used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Anshul Shah , Suvrit Sra , Rama Chellappa , Anoop Cherian

Contrastive learning is a representation learning method performed by contrasting a sample to other similar samples so that they are brought closely together, forming clusters in the feature space. The learning process is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Valentino Vito , Lim Yohanes Stefanus

Recent methods for deep metric learning have been focusing on designing different contrastive loss functions between positive and negative pairs of samples so that the learned feature embedding is able to pull positive samples of the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Shichao Kan , Zhiquan He , Yigang Cen , Yang Li , Vladimir Mladenovic , Zhihai He

Contrastive learning, which aims at minimizing the distance between positive pairs while maximizing that of negative ones, has been widely and successfully applied in unsupervised feature learning, where the design of positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Rui Zhu , Bingchen Zhao , Jingen Liu , Zhenglong Sun , Chang Wen Chen

Contrastive Learning (CL) has achieved impressive performance in self-supervised learning tasks, showing superior generalization ability. Inspired by the success, adopting CL into collaborative filtering (CF) is prevailing in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-31 An Zhang , Leheng Sheng , Zhibo Cai , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault

Deep clustering successfully provides more effective features than conventional ones and thus becomes an important technique in current unsupervised learning. However, most deep clustering methods ignore the vital positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Zhiyuan Dang , Cheng Deng , Xu Yang , Heng Huang

Despite its empirical success, the theoretical foundations of self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) are not yet fully established. In this work, we address this gap by showing that standard CL objectives implicitly approximate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Achleshwar Luthra , Tianbao Yang , Tomer Galanti

Previous deep learning approaches for survival analysis have primarily relied on ranking losses to improve discrimination performance, which often comes at the expense of calibration performance. To address such an issue, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Dongjoon Lee , Hyeryn Park , Changhee Lee

Contrastive learning has nearly closed the gap between supervised and self-supervised learning of image representations, and has also been explored for videos. However, prior work on contrastive learning for video data has not explored the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Ishan Dave , Rohit Gupta , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Mubarak Shah

For a widely-studied data model and general loss and sample-hardening functions we prove that the losses of Supervised Contrastive Learning (SCL), Hard-SCL (HSCL), and Unsupervised Contrastive Learning (UCL) are minimized by representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ruijie Jiang , Thuan Nguyen , Shuchin Aeron , Prakash Ishwar

Graph contrastive learning (GCL), as a self-supervised learning method, can solve the problem of annotated data scarcity. It mines explicit features in unannotated graphs to generate favorable graph representations for downstream tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jinhuan Wang , Jiafei Shao , Zeyu Wang , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is a popular method for leaning graph representations by maximizing the consistency of features across augmented views. Traditional GCL methods utilize single-perspective i.e. data or model-perspective)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zelin Yao , Chuang Liu , Xueqi Ma , Mukun Chen , Jia Wu , Xiantao Cai , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu