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Recently many efforts have been devoted to applying graph neural networks (GNNs) to molecular property prediction which is a fundamental task for computational drug and material discovery. One of major obstacles to hinder the successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Shuangli Li , Jingbo Zhou , Tong Xu , Dejing Dou , Hui Xiong

Learning discriminative image representations plays a vital role in long-tailed image classification because it can ease the classifier learning in imbalanced cases. Given the promising performance contrastive learning has shown recently in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Peng Wang , Kai Han , Xiu-Shen Wei , Lei Zhang , Lei Wang

Deep clustering successfully provides more effective features than conventional ones and thus becomes an important technique in current unsupervised learning. However, most deep clustering methods ignore the vital positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Zhiyuan Dang , Cheng Deng , Xu Yang , Heng Huang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to learn discriminative semantic invariance by contrasting different views of the same graph that share critical topological patterns. However, existing GCL approaches with structural augmentations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qirui Ji , Bin Qin , Yifan Jin , Yunze Zhao , Chuxiong Sun , Changwen Zheng , Jianwen Cao , Jiangmeng Li

Contrastive Learning (CL) has recently emerged as a powerful technique in recommendation systems, particularly for its capability to harness self-supervised signals from perturbed views to mitigate the persistent challenge of data sparsity.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zheyu Chen , Jinfeng Xu , Yutong Wei , Ziyue Peng

Contrastive learning, a dominant self-supervised technique, emphasizes similarity in representations between augmentations of the same input and dissimilarity for different ones. Although low contrastive loss often correlates with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yunzhe Zhang , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan

In this work, we introduce a deep-learning framework designed for estimating dense image correspondences. Our fully convolutional model generates dense feature maps for images, where each pixel is associated with a descriptor that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Monika Kwiatkowski , Simon Matern , Olaf Hellwich

Deep distance metric learning (DDML), which is proposed to learn image similarity metrics in an end-to-end manner based on the convolution neural network, has achieved encouraging results in many computer vision tasks.$L2$-normalization in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Xuefei Zhe , Shifeng Chen , Hong Yan

Contrastive pretraining is well-known to improve downstream task performance and model generalisation, especially in limited label settings. However, it is sensitive to the choice of augmentation pipeline. Positive pairs should preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Melanie Roschewitz , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Tian Xia , Galvin Khara , Ben Glocker

In many applications of deep learning, particularly those in image restoration, it is either very difficult, prohibitively expensive, or outright impossible to obtain paired training data precisely as in the real world. In such cases, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Bolin Liu , Xiao Shu , Xiaolin Wu

Texture classification is a pivotal task in computer vision, presenting unique challenges due to high inter-class similarity and the sensitivity of structural patterns to scale and illumination changes. While Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Joao B Florindo

Deep Metric Learning algorithms aim to learn an efficient embedding space to preserve the similarity relationships among the input data. Whilst these algorithms have achieved significant performance gains across a wide plethora of tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Soumava Kumar Roy , Yan Han , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

Unsupervised cross-spectral stereo matching aims at recovering disparity given cross-spectral image pairs without any supervision in the form of ground truth disparity or depth. The estimated depth provides additional information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Mingyang Liang , Xiaoyang Guo , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang , You Song

In neutrino physics, analyses often depend on large simulated datasets, making it essential for models to generalise effectively to real-world detector data. Contrastive learning, a well-established technique in deep learning, offers a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-23 Alex Wilkinson , Radi Radev , Saul Alonso-Monsalve

Deep neural networks need a big amount of training data, while in the real world there is a scarcity of data available for training purposes. To resolve this issue unsupervised methods are used for training with limited data. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Sayed Hashim , Muhammad Ali

We propose UnCLe, the first standardized benchmark for Unsupervised Continual Learning of a multimodal 3D reconstruction task: Depth completion aims to infer a dense depth map from a pair of synchronized RGB image and sparse depth map. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xien Chen , Rit Gangopadhyay , Michael Chu , Patrick Rim , Hyoungseob Park , Alex Wong

We propose a systematic learning-based approach to the generation of massive quantities of synthetic 3D scenes and arbitrary numbers of photorealistic 2D images thereof, with associated ground truth information, for the purposes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Chenfanfu Jiang , Siyuan Qi , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang , Jenny Lin , Lap-Fai Yu , Demetri Terzopoulos , Song-Chun Zhu

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) often suffers from false negatives, which degrades the performance on downstream tasks. The existing methods addressing the false negative issue usually rely on human prior knowledge, still leading GCL to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yiyang Zhao , Chengpei Wu , Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang

Recent work has shown impressive results on data-driven defocus deblurring using the two-image views available on modern dual-pixel (DP) sensors. One significant challenge in this line of research is access to DP data. Despite many cameras…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Abdullah Abuolaim , Mauricio Delbracio , Damien Kelly , Michael S. Brown , Peyman Milanfar

Learning node-level representations of heterophilic graphs is crucial for various applications, including fraudster detection and protein function prediction. In such graphs, nodes share structural similarity identified by the equivalence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Asif Khan , Amos Storkey