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Semantic representation learning for sentences is an important and well-studied problem in NLP. The current trend for this task involves training a Transformer-based sentence encoder through a contrastive objective with text, i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yiren Jian , Chongyang Gao , Soroush Vosoughi

Sentence representation at the semantic level is a challenging task for Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. Despite the advances in word embeddings (i.e. word vector representations), capturing sentence meaning is an…

InfoNCE loss is a widely used loss function for contrastive model training. It aims to estimate the mutual information between a pair of variables by discriminating between each positive pair and its associated $K$ negative pairs. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Yongfeng Huang

Pseudo-label-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved great success on raw data utilization. However, its training procedure suffers from confirmation bias due to the noise contained in self-generated artificial labels. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Fan Yang , Kai Wu , Shuyi Zhang , Guannan Jiang , Yong Liu , Feng Zheng , Wei Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Long Zeng

Contrastive learning has emerged as a cornerstone in recent achievements of unsupervised representation learning. Its primary paradigm involves an instance discrimination task with a mutual information loss. The loss is known as InfoNCE and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Kyungeun Lee , Jaeill Kim , Suhyun Kang , Wonjong Rhee

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown impressive performance in computer vision tasks such as image classification, detection, and segmentation. Moreover, recent work in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has highlighted the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Samarth Sinha , Animesh Garg , Hugo Larochelle

Learning high-quality sentence representations benefits a wide range of natural language processing tasks. Though BERT-based pre-trained language models achieve high performance on many downstream tasks, the native derived sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yuanmeng Yan , Rumei Li , Sirui Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Wei Wu , Weiran Xu

Contrastive learning has shown great potential in unsupervised sentence embedding tasks, e.g., SimCSE. However, We find that these existing solutions are heavily affected by superficial features like the length of sentences or syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Haochen Tan , Wei Shao , Han Wu , Ke Yang , Linqi Song

In this paper, we propose a simple but powerful unsupervised learning method for speaker recognition, namely Contrastive Equilibrium Learning (CEL), which increases the uncertainty on nuisance factors latent in the embeddings by employing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Sung Hwan Mun , Woo Hyun Kang , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

Recently, self-supervised learning has attracted great attention, since it only requires unlabeled data for model training. Contrastive learning is one popular method for self-supervised learning and has achieved promising empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Weiran Huang , Mingyang Yi , Xuyang Zhao , Zihao Jiang

We propose PromptBERT, a novel contrastive learning method for learning better sentence representation. We firstly analyze the drawback of current sentence embedding from original BERT and find that it is mainly due to the static token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ting Jiang , Jian Jiao , Shaohan Huang , Zihan Zhang , Deqing Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Furu Wei , Haizhen Huang , Denvy Deng , Qi Zhang

Learning by contrasting positive and negative samples is a general strategy adopted by many methods. Noise contrastive estimation (NCE) for word embeddings and translating embeddings for knowledge graphs are examples in NLP employing this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Avishek Joey Bose , Huan Ling , Yanshuai Cao

Recent empirical works have successfully used unlabeled data to learn feature representations that are broadly useful in downstream classification tasks. Several of these methods are reminiscent of the well-known word2vec embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sanjeev Arora , Hrishikesh Khandeparkar , Mikhail Khodak , Orestis Plevrakis , Nikunj Saunshi

The objective of this paper is visual-only self-supervised video representation learning. We make the following contributions: (i) we investigate the benefit of adding semantic-class positives to instance-based Info Noise Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Sentence compression reduces the length of text by removing non-essential content while preserving important facts and grammaticality. Unsupervised objective driven methods for sentence compression can be used to create customized models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Demian Gholipour Ghalandari , Chris Hokamp , Georgiana Ifrim

Semi-supervised learning lately has shown much promise in improving deep learning models when labeled data is scarce. Common among recent approaches is the use of consistency training on a large amount of unlabeled data to constrain model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Qizhe Xie , Zihang Dai , Eduard Hovy , Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le

Contrastive learning has gained significant attention as a method for self-supervised learning. The contrastive loss function ensures that embeddings of positive sample pairs (e.g., different samples from the same class or different views…

We investigate automatic interlinear glossing in low-resource settings. We augment a hard-attentional neural model with embedded translation information extracted from interlinear glossed text. After encoding these translations using large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Changbing Yang , Garrett Nicolai , Miikka Silfverberg

Self-supervised representation learning has achieved impressive empirical success, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited. In this work, we provide a theoretical perspective by formulating self-supervised representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Byeongchan Lee

In sequential recommendation systems, data augmentation and contrastive learning techniques have recently been introduced using diffusion models to achieve robust representation learning. However, most of the existing approaches use random…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jinkyeong Choi , Yejin Noh , Donghyeon Park