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Incomplete multi-view clustering (IMVC) is an unsupervised approach, among which IMVC via contrastive learning has received attention due to its excellent performance. The previous methods have the following problems: 1) Over-reliance on…

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Neural collapse provides an elegant mathematical characterization of learned last layer representations (a.k.a. features) and classifier weights in deep classification models. Such results not only provide insights but also motivate new…

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A crucial problem in learning disentangled image representations is controlling the degree of disentanglement during image editing, while preserving the identity of objects. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective model with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Zengjie Song , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Jiangshe Zhang

High-dimensional measurements are often correlated which motivates their approximation by factor models. This holds also true when features are engineered via low-dimensional interactions or kernel tricks. This often results in over…

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In the era of proliferation of large language and image generation models, the phenomenon of "model collapse" refers to the situation whereby as a model is trained recursively on data generated from previous generations of itself over time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Elvis Dohmatob , Yunzhen Feng , Julia Kempe

We aim to develop a fundamental understanding of modality collapse, a recently observed empirical phenomenon wherein models trained for multimodal fusion tend to rely only on a subset of the modalities, ignoring the rest. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Abhra Chaudhuri , Anjan Dutta , Tu Bui , Serban Georgescu

Contrastive learning is one of the fastest growing research areas in machine learning due to its ability to learn useful representations without labeled data. However, contrastive learning is susceptible to feature suppression, i.e., it may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tianhong Li , Lijie Fan , Yuan Yuan , Hao He , Yonglong Tian , Rogerio Feris , Piotr Indyk , Dina Katabi

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful method in deep learning, excelling at learning effective representations through contrasting samples from different distributions. However, dimensional collapse, where embeddings converge into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Huanran Li , Manh Nguyen , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Deep neural networks are widely used in various domains. However, the nature of computations at each layer of the deep networks is far from being well understood. Increasing the interpretability of deep neural networks is thus important.…

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Augmentation-based self-supervised learning methods have shown remarkable success in self-supervised visual representation learning, excelling in learning invariant features but often neglecting equivariant ones. This limitation reduces the…

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Deep supervised learning has achieved great success in the last decade. However, its deficiencies of dependence on manual labels and vulnerability to attacks have driven people to explore a better solution. As an alternative,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Xiao Liu , Fanjin Zhang , Zhenyu Hou , Zhaoyu Wang , Li Mian , Jing Zhang , Jie Tang

With the ever-increasing complexity of large-scale pre-trained models coupled with a shortage of labeled data for downstream training, transfer learning has become the primary approach in many fields, including natural language processing,…

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In the field of visual representation learning, performance of contrastive learning has been catching up with the supervised method which is commonly a classification convolutional neural network. However, most of the research work focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xiaoqi Zhuang

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…

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Representations learned via self-supervised learning (SSL) can be susceptible to dimensional collapse, where the learned representation subspace is of extremely low dimensionality and thus fails to represent the full data distribution and…

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Despite the success of a number of recent techniques for visual self-supervised deep learning, there has been limited investigation into the representations that are ultimately learned. By leveraging recent advances in the comparison of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Tom George Grigg , Dan Busbridge , Jason Ramapuram , Russ Webb

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

Contrastive learning is commonly used as a method of self-supervised learning with the "anchor" and "positive" being two random augmentations of a given input image, and the "negative" is the set of all other images. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Rishab Balasubramanian , Kunal Rathore

Training deep neural networks for classification often includes minimizing the training loss beyond the zero training error point. In this phase of training, a "neural collapse" behavior has been observed: the variability of features…

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