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Unsupervised learning has recently made exceptional progress because of the development of more effective contrastive learning methods. However, CNNs are prone to depend on low-level features that humans deem non-semantic. This dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Songwei Ge , Shlok Mishra , Haohan Wang , Chun-Liang Li , David Jacobs

Detectingandsegmentingobjectswithinwholeslideimagesis essential in computational pathology workflow. Self-supervised learning (SSL) is appealing to such annotation-heavy tasks. Despite the extensive benchmarks in natural images for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Jiawei Yang , Hanbo Chen , Yuan Liang , Junzhou Huang , Lei He , Jianhua Yao

Self-supervised contrastive learning offers a means of learning informative features from a pool of unlabeled data. In this paper, we delve into another useful approach -- providing a way of selecting a core-set that is entirely unlabeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jeongwoo Ju , Heechul Jung , Yoonju Oh , Junmo Kim

Medical image analysis benefits Computer Aided Diagnosis (CADx). A fundamental analyzing approach is the classification of medical images, which serves for skin lesion diagnosis, diabetic retinopathy grading, and cancer classification on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Lijun Gong , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Self-supervised representation learning has been extremely successful in medical image analysis, as it requires no human annotations to provide transferable representations for downstream tasks. Recent self-supervised learning methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chixiang Lu , Liansheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Deep neural networks excel at comprehending complex visual signals, delivering on par or even superior performance to that of human experts. However, ad-hoc visual explanations of model decisions often reveal an alarming level of reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Dong Wang , Yuewei Yang , Chenyang Tao , Zhe Gan , Liqun Chen , Fanjie Kong , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

While supervised learning has enabled great progress in many applications, unsupervised learning has not seen such widespread adoption, and remains an important and challenging endeavor for artificial intelligence. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Aaron van den Oord , Yazhe Li , Oriol Vinyals

What matters for contrastive learning? We argue that contrastive learning heavily relies on informative features, or "hard" (positive or negative) features. Early works include more informative features by applying complex data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Jiangmeng Li , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Bing Su , Hui Xiong

Unsupervised pre-training has been proven as an effective approach to boost various downstream tasks given limited labeled data. Among various methods, contrastive learning learns a discriminative representation by constructing positive and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Jizong Peng , Ping Wang , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers

Meta-learning enables learning systems to adapt quickly to new tasks, similar to humans. Different meta-learning approaches all work under/with the mini-batch episodic training framework. Such framework naturally gives the information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shiguang Wu , Yaqing Wang , Yatao Bian , Quanming Yao

The field of generating recommendations within the framework of causal inference has seen a recent surge, with recommendations being likened to treatments. This approach enhances insights into the influence of recommendations on user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Guanglin Zhou , Chengkai Huang , Xiaocong Chen , Xiwei Xu , Chen Wang , Liming Zhu , Lina Yao

This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

This paper presents Contrastive Reconstruction, ConRec - a self-supervised learning algorithm that obtains image representations by jointly optimizing a contrastive and a self-reconstruction loss. We showcase that state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jonas Dippel , Steffen Vogler , Johannes Höhne

The accurate diagnosis of pathological subtypes of lung cancer is of paramount importance for follow-up treatments and prognosis managements. Assessment methods utilizing deep learning technologies have introduced novel approaches for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Yuan Jin , Gege Ma , Geng Chen , Tianling Lyu , Jan Egger , Junhui Lyu , Shaoting Zhang , Wentao Zhu

As digital medical imaging becomes more prevalent and archives increase in size, representation learning exposes an interesting opportunity for enhanced medical decision support systems. On the other hand, medical imaging data is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Eduardo Pinho , Carlos Costa

Modern neural recording techniques such as two-photon imaging or Neuropixel probes allow to acquire vast time-series datasets with responses of hundreds or thousands of neurons. Contrastive learning is a powerful self-supervised framework…

Recent advances in self-supervised learning have attracted significant attention from both machine learning and neuroscience. This is primarily because self-supervised methods do not require annotated supervisory information, making them…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-05 Asaki Kataoka , Yoshihiro Nagano , Masafumi Oizumi

Contrastive learning is commonly applied to self-supervised learning, and has been shown to outperform traditional approaches such as the triplet loss and N-pair loss. However, the requirement of large batch sizes and memory banks has made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Rishab Balasubramanian , Rupashree Dey , Kunal Rathore

Contrastive Learning (CL) has achieved impressive performance in self-supervised learning tasks, showing superior generalization ability. Inspired by the success, adopting CL into collaborative filtering (CF) is prevailing in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-31 An Zhang , Leheng Sheng , Zhibo Cai , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Contrastive learning between multiple views of the data has recently achieved state of the art performance in the field of self-supervised representation learning. Despite its success, the influence of different view choices has been less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Yonglong Tian , Chen Sun , Ben Poole , Dilip Krishnan , Cordelia Schmid , Phillip Isola