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Recently, self-supervised contrastive learning has achieved great success on various tasks. However, its underlying working mechanism is yet unclear. In this paper, we first provide the tightest bounds based on the widely adopted assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

Self-supervised learning is an empirically successful approach to unsupervised learning based on creating artificial supervised learning problems. A popular self-supervised approach to representation learning is contrastive learning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Christopher Tosh , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Daniel Hsu

In recent years, supervised learning with convolutional networks (CNNs) has seen huge adoption in computer vision applications. Comparatively, unsupervised learning with CNNs has received less attention. In this work we hope to help bridge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Alec Radford , Luke Metz , Soumith Chintala

Recently, contrastive self-supervised learning has become a key component for learning visual representations across many computer vision tasks and benchmarks. However, contrastive learning in the context of domain adaptation remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mamatha Thota , Georgios Leontidis

Medical image analysis using supervised deep learning methods remains problematic because of the reliance of deep learning methods on large amounts of labelled training data. Although medical imaging data repositories continue to expand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Euijoon Ahn , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

The deep convolutional neural network(CNN) has significantly raised the performance of image classification and face recognition. Softmax is usually used as supervision, but it only penalizes the classification loss. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Ce Qi , Fei Su

In this paper, we address Novel Class Discovery (NCD), the task of unveiling new classes in a set of unlabeled samples given a labeled dataset with known classes. We exploit the peculiarities of NCD to build a new framework, named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhun Zhong , Enrico Fini , Subhankar Roy , Zhiming Luo , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

Contrastive learning is a powerful self-supervised learning method, but we have a limited theoretical understanding of how it works and why it works. In this paper, we prove that contrastive learning with the standard InfoNCE loss is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Zhiquan Tan , Yifan Zhang , Jingqin Yang , Yang Yuan

Deep anomaly detection methods learn representations that separate between normal and anomalous images. Although self-supervised representation learning is commonly used, small dataset sizes limit its effectiveness. It was previously shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Tal Reiss , Yedid Hoshen

This paper aims at providing insight on the transferability of deep CNN features to unsupervised problems. We study the impact of different pretrained CNN feature extractors on the problem of image set clustering for object classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Joris Guérin , Olivier Gibaru , Stéphane Thiery , Eric Nyiri

Recent advancements in self-supervised learning have demonstrated that effective visual representations can be learned from unlabeled images. This has led to increased interest in applying self-supervised learning to the medical domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Xiangyi Yan , Junayed Naushad , Chenyu You , Hao Tang , Shanlin Sun , Kun Han , Haoyu Ma , James Duncan , Xiaohui Xie

Unsupervised contrastive learning has shown significant performance improvements in recent years, often approaching or even rivaling supervised learning in various tasks. However, its learning mechanism is fundamentally different from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yi-Ge Zhang , Jingyi Cui , Qiran Li , Yisen Wang

Pursuing realistic results according to human visual perception is the central concern in the image transformation tasks. Perceptual learning approaches like perceptual loss are empirically powerful for such tasks but they usually rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Kangfu Mei , Yao Lu , Qiaosi Yi , Haoyu Wu , Juncheng Li , Rui Huang

Self-supervised representation learning has achieved impressive empirical success, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited. In this work, we provide a theoretical perspective by formulating self-supervised representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Byeongchan Lee

Supervised deep learning needs a large amount of labeled data to achieve high performance. However, in medical imaging analysis, each site may only have a limited amount of data and labels, which makes learning ineffective. Federated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Yawen Wu , Dewen Zeng , Zhepeng Wang , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful framework for learning generalizable representations, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited, particularly under imbalanced data distributions that are prevalent in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Haixu Liao , Yating Zhou , Songyang Zhang , Meng Wang , Shuai Zhang

Whilst contrastive learning has recently brought notable benefits to deep clustering of unlabelled images by learning sample-specific discriminative visual features, its potential for explicitly inferring class decision boundaries is less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

Self-supervised learning attempts to learn representations from un-labeled data; it does so via a loss function that encourages the embedding of a point to be close to that of its augmentations. This simple idea performs remarkably well,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Parikshit Bansal , Ali Kavis , Sujay Sanghavi

Contrastive representation learning, which aims to learnthe shared information between different views of unlabeled data by maximizing the mutual information between them, has shown its powerful competence in self-supervised learning for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xuechu Yu

Pre-training a recognition model with contrastive learning on a large dataset of unlabeled data has shown great potential to boost the performance of a downstream task, e.g., image classification. However, in domains such as medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jizong Peng , Ping Wang , Chrisitian Desrosiers , Marco Pedersoli
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