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Human Activity Recognition is a field of research where input data can take many forms. Each of the possible input modalities describes human behaviour in a different way, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. We explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Razvan Brinzea , Bulat Khaertdinov , Stylianos Asteriadis

Learning robust representations to discriminate cell phenotypes based on microscopy images is important for drug discovery. Drug development efforts typically analyse thousands of cell images to screen for potential treatments. Early works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Alexis Perakis , Ali Gorji , Samriddhi Jain , Krishna Chaitanya , Simone Rizza , Ender Konukoglu

Multi-label classification, which involves assigning multiple labels to a single input, has emerged as a key area in both research and industry due to its wide-ranging applications. Designing effective loss functions is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Alexandre Audibert , Aurélien Gauffre , Massih-Reza Amini

The use of contrastive loss for representation learning has become prominent in computer vision, and it is now getting attention in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Here, we explore the idea of using a batch-softmax contrastive loss when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Anton Chernyavskiy , Dmitry Ilvovsky , Pavel Kalinin , Preslav Nakov

Contrastive learning has emerged as a prominent branch of self-supervised learning for several years. Especially, CLIP, which applies contrastive learning to large sets of captioned images, has garnered significant attention. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Chungpa Lee , Joonhwan Chang , Jy-yong Sohn

Cross-modal image-text retrieval is challenging because of the diverse possible associations between content from different modalities. Traditional methods learn a single-vector embedding to represent semantics of each sample, but struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Hani Alomari , Anushka Sivakumar , Andrew Zhang , Chris Thomas

Unsupervised image-to-image translation tasks aim to find a mapping between a source domain X and a target domain Y from unpaired training data. Contrastive learning for Unpaired image-to-image Translation (CUT) yields state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Junlin Han , Mehrdad Shoeiby , Lars Petersson , Mohammad Ali Armin

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

Contrastive learning has become a popular technique to pre-train image encoders, which could be used to build various downstream classification models in an efficient way. This process requires a large amount of data and computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yutong Wu , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei L , Meikang Qiu

Noise contrastive learning is a popular technique for unsupervised representation learning. In this approach, a representation is obtained via reduction to supervised learning, where given a notion of semantic similarity, the learner tries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jordan T. Ash , Surbhi Goel , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Dipendra Misra

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 is an efficient approach to self-supervised representation learning. Although recent studies have made progress in the theoretical understanding of contrastive learning, the investigation of how to characterize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hiroki Waida , Yuichiro Wada , Léo Andéol , Takumi Nakagawa , Yuhui Zhang , Takafumi Kanamori

Contrastive learning techniques have been widely used in the field of computer vision as a means of augmenting datasets. In this paper, we extend the use of these contrastive learning embeddings to sentiment analysis tasks and demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ipsita Mohanty , Ankit Goyal , Alex Dotterweich

Unsupervised sentence embedding aims to obtain the most appropriate embedding for a sentence to reflect its semantic. Contrastive learning has been attracting developing attention. For a sentence, current models utilize diverse data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Hao Wang , Yangguang Li , Zhen Huang , Yong Dou , Lingpeng Kong , Jing Shao

Self-supervised learning has gained popularity because of its ability to avoid the cost of annotating large-scale datasets. It is capable of adopting self-defined pseudo labels as supervision and use the learned representations for several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ashish Jaiswal , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Mohammad Zaki Zadeh , Debapriya Banerjee , Fillia Makedon

Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image and text retrieval. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) trains two neural networks in contrastive manner to align their image and text embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kwun Ho Ngan , Saman Sadeghi Afgeh , Joe Townsend , Artur d'Avila Garcez

In this paper, we propose a novel training procedure for the continual representation learning problem in which a neural network model is sequentially learned to alleviate catastrophic forgetting in visual search tasks. Our method, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tommaso Barletti , Niccolo' Biondi , Federico Pernici , Matteo Bruni , Alberto Del Bimbo

The effectiveness of contrastive learning technology in natural language processing tasks is yet to be explored and analyzed. How to construct positive and negative samples correctly and reasonably is the core challenge of contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Nankai Lin , Guanqiu Qin , Jigang Wang , Aimin Yang , Dong Zhou

The recent success of SimCSE has greatly advanced state-of-the-art sentence representations. However, the original formulation of SimCSE does not fully exploit the potential of hard negative samples in contrastive learning. This study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pengyue Hou , Xingyu Li

The emoticons are symbolic representations that generally accompany the textual content to visually enhance or summarize the true intention of a written message. Although widely utilized in the realm of social media, the core semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ananya Pandey , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma