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Language models (LMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in NLP, yet adapting them efficiently and robustly to specific tasks remains challenging. As their scale and complexity grow, fine-tuning LMs on labelled data often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhengyan Shi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to eliminate one of the major bottlenecks in representation learning - the need for human annotations. As a result, SSL holds the promise to learn representations from data in-the-wild, i.e., without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Senthil Purushwalkam , Pedro Morgado , Abhinav Gupta

We consider the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation for image classification. To learn target-domain-aware features from the unlabeled data, we create a self-supervised pretext task by augmenting the unlabeled data with a certain type…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 L. Xiao , J. Xu , D. Zhao , Z. Wang , L. Wang , Y. Nie , B. Dai

Contrastive representation learning has gained much attention due to its superior performance in learning representations from both image and sequential data. However, the learned representations could potentially lead to performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jianfeng Chi , William Shand , Yaodong Yu , Kai-Wei Chang , Han Zhao , Yuan Tian

The goal of semi-supervised learning is to utilize the unlabeled, in-domain dataset U to improve models trained on the labeled dataset D. Under the context of large-scale language-model (LM) pretraining, how we can make the best use of U is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Zijun Sun , Chun Fan , Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Large Pre-trained Transformers exhibit an intriguing capacity for in-context learning. Without gradient updates, these models can rapidly construct new predictors from demonstrations presented in the inputs. Recent works promote this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yi-Syuan Chen , Yun-Zhu Song , Cheng Yu Yeo , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Hong-Han Shuai

Self-supervised learning of convolutional neural networks can harness large amounts of cheap unlabeled data to train powerful feature representations. As surrogate task, we jointly address ordering of visual data in the spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Uta Büchler , Biagio Brattoli , Björn Ommer

Deep learning usually achieves the best results with complete supervision. In the case of semantic segmentation, this means that large amounts of pixelwise annotations are required to learn accurate models. In this paper, we show that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yi Zhu , Zhongyue Zhang , Chongruo Wu , Zhi Zhang , Tong He , Hang Zhang , R. Manmatha , Mu Li , Alexander Smola

Large language models are able to learn new tasks in context, where they are provided with instructions and a few annotated examples. However, the effectiveness of in-context learning is dependent on the provided context, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Afra Amini , Massimiliano Ciaramita

As a newly emerging unsupervised learning paradigm, self-supervised learning (SSL) recently gained widespread attention, which usually introduces a pretext task without manual annotation of data. With its help, SSL effectively learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Chuanxing Geng , Zhenghao Tan , Songcan Chen

Self-supervised learning is popular method because of its ability to learn features in images without using its labels and is able to overcome limited labeled datasets used in supervised learning. Self-supervised learning works by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Aristo Renaldo Ruslim , Novanto Yudistira , Budi Darma Setiawan

In music and speech, meaning is derived at multiple levels of context. Affect, for example, can be inferred both by a short sound token and by sonic patterns over a longer temporal window such as an entire recording. In this letter, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Camille Noufi , Prateek Verma

Recent work on few-shot learning \cite{tian2020rethinking} showed that quality of learned representations plays an important role in few-shot classification performance. On the other hand, the goal of self-supervised learning is to recover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Nathaniel Simard , Guillaume Lagrange

In semi-supervised classification, one is given access both to labeled and unlabeled data. As unlabeled data is typically cheaper to acquire than labeled data, this setup becomes advantageous as soon as one can exploit the unlabeled data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Christina Göpfert , Shai Ben-David , Olivier Bousquet , Sylvain Gelly , Ilya Tolstikhin , Ruth Urner

Emotion recognition is a challenging task due to limited availability of in-the-wild labeled datasets. Self-supervised learning has shown improvements on tasks with limited labeled datasets in domains like speech and natural language.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Aparna Khare , Srinivas Parthasarathy , Shiva Sundaram

For many applications the collection of labeled data is expensive laborious. Exploitation of unlabeled data during training is thus a long pursued objective of machine learning. Self-supervised learning addresses this by positing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

In contrast to fully-supervised models, self-supervised representation learning only needs a fraction of data to be labeled and often achieves the same or even higher downstream performance. The goal is to pre-train deep neural networks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Friederike Baier , Sebastian Mair , Samuel G. Fadel

In self-supervised visual representation learning, a feature extractor is trained on a "pretext task" for which labels can be generated cheaply, without human annotation. A central challenge in this approach is that the feature extractor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Matthias Minderer , Olivier Bachem , Neil Houlsby , Michael Tschannen

Self-training is one of the earliest and simplest semi-supervised methods. The key idea is to augment the original labeled dataset with unlabeled data paired with the model's prediction (i.e. the pseudo-parallel data). While self-training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Junxian He , Jiatao Gu , Jiajun Shen , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Self-supervised metric learning has been a successful approach for learning a distance from an unlabeled dataset. The resulting distance is broadly useful for improving various distance-based downstream tasks, even when no information from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-18 Shulei Wang