English
Related papers

Related papers: Contrasting Contrastive Self-Supervised Representa…

200 papers

Contrastive learning models have achieved great success in unsupervised visual representation learning, which maximize the similarities between feature representations of different views of the same image, while minimize the similarities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Shusheng Xu , Xingxing Zhang , Yi Wu , Furu Wei

Self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) has achieved remarkable empirical success, often producing representations that rival supervised pre-training on downstream tasks. Recent theory explains this by showing that the CL loss closely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Achleshwar Luthra , Priyadarsi Mishra , Tomer Galanti

While state-of-the-art contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models produce results competitive with their supervised counterparts, they lack the ability to infer latent variables. In contrast, prescribed latent variable (LV) models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jason Ramapuram , Dan Busbridge , Xavier Suau , Russ Webb

Recent works in self-supervised learning have advanced the state-of-the-art by relying on the contrastive learning paradigm, which learns representations by pushing positive pairs, or similar examples from the same class, closer together…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Jeff Z. HaoChen , Colin Wei , Adrien Gaidon , Tengyu Ma

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have brought tremendous success across many tasks and domains. It has been argued that these successes can be attributed to a link between SSL and identifiable representation learning: Temporal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Rodrigo González Laiz , Tobias Schmidt , Steffen Schneider

Self-training and contrastive learning have emerged as leading techniques for incorporating unlabeled data, both under distribution shift (unsupervised domain adaptation) and when it is absent (semi-supervised learning). However, despite…

In the era of big data and Artificial Intelligence, an emerging paradigm is to utilize contrastive self-supervised learning to model large-scale heterogeneous data. Many existing foundation models benefit from the generalization capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Lecheng Zheng , Baoyu Jing , Zihao Li , Hanghang Tong , Jingrui He

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated its effectiveness in learning representations through comparison methods that align with human intuition. However, mainstream SSL methods heavily rely on high body datasets with single label,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiale Chen

Self-supervised learning has been successfully applied to pre-train video representations, which aims at efficient adaptation from pre-training domain to downstream tasks. Existing approaches merely leverage contrastive loss to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yuanze Lin , Xun Guo , Yan Lu

Labeling videos at scale is impractical. Consequently, self-supervised visual representation learning is key for efficient video analysis. Recent success in learning image representations suggests contrastive learning is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Nishant Rai , Ehsan Adeli , Kuan-Hui Lee , Adrien Gaidon , Juan Carlos Niebles

Contrastive representation learning has been outstandingly successful in practice. In this work, we identify two key properties related to the contrastive loss: (1) alignment (closeness) of features from positive pairs, and (2) uniformity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Tongzhou Wang , Phillip Isola

Self-supervised learning establishes a new paradigm of learning representations with much fewer or even no label annotations. Recently there has been remarkable progress on large-scale contrastive learning models which require substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hangwei Qian , Tian Tian , Chunyan Miao

In this paper, we are interested in understanding self-supervised pretraining through studying the capability that self-supervised representation pretraining methods learn part-aware representations. The study is mainly motivated by that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jie Zhu , Jiyang Qi , Mingyu Ding , Xiaokang Chen , Ping Luo , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu , Leye Wang , Jingdong Wang

In reinforcement learning (RL), it is easier to solve a task if given a good representation. While deep RL should automatically acquire such good representations, prior work often finds that learning representations in an end-to-end fashion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Benjamin Eysenbach , Tianjun Zhang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Sergey Levine

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has emerged as a novel paradigm to learn visual models from language supervision. While researchers continue to push the frontier of CLIP, reproducing these works remains challenging. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yufeng Cui , Lichen Zhao , Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Jing Shao

Self-training methods have proven to be effective in exploiting abundant unlabeled data in semi-supervised learning, particularly when labeled data is scarce. While many of these approaches rely on a cross-entropy loss function (CE), recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Aurelien Gauffre , Julien Horvat , Massih-Reza Amini

This paper introduces Relative Predictive Coding (RPC), a new contrastive representation learning objective that maintains a good balance among training stability, minibatch size sensitivity, and downstream task performance. The key to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Martin Q. Ma , Muqiao Yang , Han Zhao , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Self-supervised contrastive learning is an effective approach for addressing the challenge of limited labelled data. This study builds upon the previously established two-stage patch-level, multi-label classification method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Salma Haidar , José Oramas

Visual-only self-supervised learning has achieved significant improvement in video representation learning. Existing related methods encourage models to learn video representations by utilizing contrastive learning or designing specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jinyu Liu , Ying Cheng , Yuejie Zhang , Rui-Wei Zhao , Rui Feng

Self-supervised contrastive representation learning has proved incredibly successful in the vision and natural language domains, enabling state-of-the-art performance with orders of magnitude less labeled data. However, such methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dara Bahri , Heinrich Jiang , Yi Tay , Donald Metzler