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We explore the downstream task performances for graph neural network (GNN) self-supervised learning (SSL) methods trained on subgraphs extracted from relational databases (RDBs). Intuitively, this joint use of SSL and GNNs should allow to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shengchao Liu , David Vazquez , Jian Tang , Pierre-André Noël

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which can automatically generate ground-truth samples from raw data, holds vast potential to improve recommender systems. Most existing SSL-based methods perturb the raw data graph with uniform node/edge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Junliang Yu , Hongzhi Yin , Min Gao , Xin Xia , Xiangliang Zhang , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung

This thesis is devoted to the theoretical study of slow thermodynamic processes in non-equilibrium stochastic systems. Its main result is a physically and mathematically consistent construction of relevant thermodynamic quantities in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-29 Jiří Pešek

Self-supervised learning, dubbed the dark matter of intelligence, is a promising path to advance machine learning. Yet, much like cooking, training SSL methods is a delicate art with a high barrier to entry. While many components are…

Recently proposed consistency-based Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods such as the $\Pi$-model, temporal ensembling, the mean teacher, or the virtual adversarial training, have advanced the state of the art in several SSL tasks. These…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-19 Atin Ghosh , Alexandre H. Thiery

{The Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) theory alters the Schr\"odinger equation. It describes wave function collapse as a dynamical process instead of an ill-defined postulate, thereby providing macroscopic uniqueness and solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Franck Laloë , William J. Mullin , Philip Pearle

Self-supervised learning (SSL) frameworks consist of pretext task, and loss function aiming to learn useful general features from unlabeled data. The basic idea of most SSL baselines revolves around enforcing the invariance to a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Salman Mohamadi , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh

A common heuristic in semi-supervised deep learning (SSDL) is to select unlabelled data based on a notion of semantic similarity to the labelled data. For example, labelled images of numbers should be paired with unlabelled images of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Saul Calderon-Ramirez , Luis Oala

This work introduces an approach rooted in quantum thermodynamics to enhance sampling efficiency in quantum machine learning (QML). We propose conceptualizing quantum supervised learning as a thermodynamic cooling process. Building on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones , Daniel K. Park

In this paper, we explore the transferability of SSL by addressing two central questions: (i) what is the representation transferability of SSL, and (ii) how can we effectively model this transferability? Transferability is defined as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Huijie Guo , Jingyao Wang , Peizheng Guo , Xingchen Shen , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) enables label efficient training for machine learning models. This is essential for domains such as medical imaging, where labels are costly and time-consuming to curate. However, the most effective supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Cara Van Uden , Jeremy Irvin , Mars Huang , Nathan Dean , Jason Carr , Andrew Ng , Curtis Langlotz

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has garnered significant attention due to its ability to leverage limited labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data to improve model generalization performance. Recent approaches achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Bo Cheng , Jueqing Lu , Yuan Tian , Haifeng Zhao , Yi Chang , Lan Du

Spin-glasses are universal models that can capture complex behavior of many-body systems at the interface of statistical physics and computer science including discrete optimization, inference in graphical models, and automated reasoning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Gavin S. Hartnett , Masoud Mohseni

Although increasingly training-expensive, most self-supervised learning (SSL) models have repeatedly been trained from scratch but not fully utilized, since only a few SOTAs are employed for downstream tasks. In this work, we explore a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Shanghua Gao , Pan Zhou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Shuicheng Yan

We propose a novel theoretical framework to understand contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) methods that employ dual pairs of deep ReLU networks (e.g., SimCLR). First, we prove that in each SGD update of SimCLR with various loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yuandong Tian , Lantao Yu , Xinlei Chen , Surya Ganguli

Linear probing (LP) (and $k$-NN) on the upstream dataset with labels (e.g., ImageNet) and transfer learning (TL) to various downstream datasets are commonly employed to evaluate the quality of visual representations learned via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Jae-Hun Lee , Doyoung Yoon , ByeongMoon Ji , Kyungyul Kim , Sangheum Hwang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) over graph-structured data emerges in many network science applications. To efficiently manage learning over graphs, variants of graph neural networks (GNNs) have been developed recently. By succinctly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Alireza Sadeghi , Meng Ma , Bingcong Li , Georgios B. Giannakis

As a new paradigm in machine learning, self-supervised learning (SSL) is capable of learning high-quality representations of complex data without relying on labels. In addition to eliminating the need for labeled data, research has found…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Changjiang Li , Ren Pang , Zhaohan Xi , Tianyu Du , Shouling Ji , Yuan Yao , Ting Wang

We introduce a deep learning framework designed to train smoothed elastoplasticity models with interpretable components, such as a smoothed stored elastic energy function, a yield surface, and a plastic flow that are evolved based on a set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Nikolaos N. Vlassis , WaiChing Sun

This paper looks at semi-supervised learning (SSL) for image-based text recognition. One of the most popular SSL approaches is pseudo-labeling (PL). PL approaches assign labels to unlabeled data before re-training the model with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Gaurav Patel , Jan Allebach , Qiang Qiu