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Unsupervised learning and supervised learning are key research topics in deep learning. However, as high-capacity supervised neural networks trained with a large amount of labels have achieved remarkable success in many computer vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Yuting Zhang , Kibok Lee , Honglak Lee

Latent representations are critical for the performance and robustness of machine learning models, as they encode the essential features of data in a compact and informative manner. However, in vision tasks, these representations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bruno Corcuera , Carlos Eiras-Franco , Brais Cancela

Recently, lots of deep networks are proposed to improve the quality of predicted super-resolution (SR) images, due to its widespread use in several image-based fields. However, with these networks being constructed deeper and deeper, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Wei. Lin , Junyu. Gao , Qi. Wang , Xuelong. Li

Continual learning (CL) aims to learn a sequence of tasks without forgetting the previously acquired knowledge. However, recent CL advances are restricted to supervised continual learning (SCL) scenarios. Consequently, they are not scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Divyam Madaan , Jaehong Yoon , Yuanchun Li , Yunxin Liu , Sung Ju Hwang

Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated remarkable achievements across diverse domains such as video games, robotic control, autonomous driving, and drug discovery. Common methodologies in partially-observable domains largely lean on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Michael Lanier , Ying Xu , Nathan Jacobs , Chongjie Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

This paper proposes an unsupervised method for learning a unified representation that serves both discriminative and generative purposes. While most existing unsupervised learning approaches focus on a representation for only one of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shengbang Tong , Xili Dai , Yubei Chen , Mingyang Li , Zengyi Li , Brent Yi , Yann LeCun , Yi Ma

We demonstrate how supervised learning can be decomposed into a two-stage procedure, where (1) all model parameters are selected in an unsupervised manner, and (2) the outputs y are added to the model, without changing the parameter values.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-30 Oskar Allerbo , Thomas B. Schön

Convolutional networks have marked their place over the last few years as the best performing model for various visual tasks. They are, however, most suited for supervised learning from large amounts of labeled data. Previous attempts have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-23 Elad Hoffer , Itay Hubara , Nir Ailon

In this work we propose for the first time a transformer-based framework for unsupervised representation learning of multivariate time series. Pre-trained models can be potentially used for downstream tasks such as regression and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 George Zerveas , Srideepika Jayaraman , Dhaval Patel , Anuradha Bhamidipaty , Carsten Eickhoff

Self-supervised learning has become a popular approach in recent years for its ability to learn meaningful representations without the need for data annotation. This paper proposes a novel image augmentation technique, overlaying images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yinheng Li , Han Ding , Shaofei Wang

Unsupervised lifelong learning refers to the ability to learn over time while memorizing previous patterns without supervision. Although great progress has been made in this direction, existing work often assumes strong prior knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xiaofan Yu , Yunhui Guo , Sicun Gao , Tajana Rosing

This paper presents SPeCiaL: a method for unsupervised pretraining of representations tailored for continual learning. Our approach devises a meta-learning objective that differentiates through a sequential learning process. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lucas Caccia , Joelle Pineau

We propose a novel learning-based approach for robust 3D shape matching. Our method builds upon deep functional maps and can be trained in a fully unsupervised manner. Previous deep functional map methods mainly focus on predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Paul Roetzer , Florian Bernard

Semisupervised learning is a learning standard which deals with the study of how computers and natural systems such as human beings acquire knowledge in the presence of both labeled and unlabeled data. Semisupervised learning based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 V. Jothi Prakash , Dr. L. M. Nithya

Despite the empirical successes of self-supervised learning (SSL) methods, it is unclear what characteristics of their representations lead to high downstream accuracies. In this work, we characterize properties that SSL representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yann Dubois , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Stefano Ermon , Percy Liang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful technique for learning visual representations. While recent SSL approaches achieve strong results in global image understanding, they are limited in capturing the structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Oussama Hadjerci , Antoine Letienne , Mohamed Abbas Hedjazi , Adel Hafiane

Unsupervised representation learning aims at describing raw data efficiently to solve various downstream tasks. It has been approached with many techniques, such as manifold learning, diffusion maps, or more recently self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Vivien Cabannes , Alberto Bietti , Randall Balestriero

Recently the focus of the computer vision community has shifted from expensive supervised learning towards self-supervised learning of visual representations. While the performance gap between supervised and self-supervised has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Mustafa Taha Koçyiğit , Timothy M. Hospedales , Hakan Bilen

Large-scale labeled data are generally required to train deep neural networks in order to obtain better performance in visual feature learning from images or videos for computer vision applications. To avoid extensive cost of collecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Longlong Jing , Yingli Tian

Supervised Learning has been successfully used to produce phase diagrams and identify phase boundaries when local order parameters are unavailable. Here, we apply unsupervised learning to this task. By using readily available clustering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-19 Steven Durr , Sudip Chakravarty