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Unsupervised disentangled representation learning is a long-standing problem in computer vision. This work proposes a novel framework for performing image clustering from deep embeddings by combining instance-level contrastive learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ramakrishnan Sundareswaran , Jansel Herrera-Gerena , John Just , Ali Jannesari

Contrastive learning applied to self-supervised representation learning has seen a resurgence in recent years, leading to state of the art performance in the unsupervised training of deep image models. Modern batch contrastive approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Prannay Khosla , Piotr Teterwak , Chen Wang , Aaron Sarna , Yonglong Tian , Phillip Isola , Aaron Maschinot , Ce Liu , Dilip Krishnan

In this paper, we propose a one-stage online clustering method called Contrastive Clustering (CC) which explicitly performs the instance- and cluster-level contrastive learning. To be specific, for a given dataset, the positive and negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yunfan Li , Peng Hu , Zitao Liu , Dezhong Peng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Xi Peng

Trained classification models can unintentionally lead to biased representations and predictions, which can reinforce societal preconceptions and stereotypes. Existing debiasing methods for classification models, such as adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Aili Shen , Xudong Han , Trevor Cohn , Timothy Baldwin , Lea Frermann

Discriminative representation is crucial for the association step in multi-object tracking. Recent work mainly utilizes features in single or neighboring frames for constructing metric loss and empowering networks to extract representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 En Yu , Zhuoling Li , Shoudong Han

In recent years, the use of edge information provided by knowledge graphs together with the advantages of higher-order connectivity in graph neural networks for recommendation systems has become an important research direction. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhifei Hu , Feng Xia

Model agnostic meta-learning algorithms aim to infer priors from several observed tasks that can then be used to adapt to a new task with few examples. Given the inherent diversity of tasks arising in existing benchmarks, recent methods use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Rakshith Subramanyam , Mark Heimann , Jayram Thathachar , Rushil Anirudh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Contrastive learning has gained significant attention in short text clustering, yet it has an inherent drawback of mistakenly identifying samples from the same category as negatives and then separating them in the feature space (false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhihao Yao

We study three intriguing properties of contrastive learning. First, we generalize the standard contrastive loss to a broader family of losses, and we find that various instantiations of the generalized loss perform similarly under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ting Chen , Calvin Luo , Lala Li

Classical machine learners are designed only to tackle one task without capability of adopting new emerging tasks or classes whereas such capacity is more practical and human-like in the real world. To address this shortcoming, continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xuejun Han , Yuhong Guo

Contrastive learning typically matches pairs of related views among a number of unrelated negative views. Views can be generated (e.g. by augmentations) or be observed. We investigate matching when there are more than two related views…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Amitis Shidani , Devon Hjelm , Jason Ramapuram , Russ Webb , Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane , Dan Busbridge

Foundational vision models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have achieved significant breakthroughs through extensive pre-training on large-scale visual datasets. Despite their general success, these models may fall short in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ke Zhou , Zhongwei Qiu , Dongmei Fu

We address the problem of few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS), which aims to segment novel class objects in a target image with a few annotated samples. Though recent advances have been made by incorporating prototype-based metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hyeongjun Kwon , Somi Jeong , Sunok Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Multimodal imaging and correlative analysis typically require image alignment. Contrastive learning can generate representations of multimodal images, reducing the challenging task of multimodal image registration to a monomodal one.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Elisabeth Wetzer , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Contrastive learning produces coherent semantic feature embeddings by encouraging positive samples to cluster closely while separating negative samples. However, existing contrastive learning methods lack principled guarantees on coverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yahya Alkhatib , Wee Peng Tay

Self-supervised learning (especially contrastive learning) has attracted great interest due to its huge potential in learning discriminative representations in an unsupervised manner. Despite the acknowledged successes, existing contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Guangrun Wang , Keze Wang , Guangcong Wang , Philip H. S. Torr , Liang Lin

Learning similarity metrics for glyphs and writing systems faces a fundamental challenge: while individual graphemes within invented alphabets can be reliably labeled, the historical relationships between different scripts remain uncertain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Claire Roman , Philippe Meyer

In many real-world problems, collecting a large number of labeled samples is infeasible. Few-shot learning (FSL) is the dominant approach to address this issue, where the objective is to quickly adapt to novel categories in presence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Many contrastive and meta-learning approaches learn representations by identifying common features in multiple views. However, the formalism for these approaches generally assumes features to be shared across views to be captured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Adam Jelley , Amos Storkey , Antreas Antoniou , Sam Devlin