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The likelihood function plays a crucial role in statistical inference and experimental design. However, it is computationally intractable for several important classes of statistical models, including energy-based models and simulator-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Michael U. Gutmann , Steven Kleinegesse , Benjamin Rhodes

Deep learning-based recommender systems have achieved remarkable success in recent years. However, these methods usually heavily rely on labeled data (i.e., user-item interactions), suffering from problems such as data sparsity and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mengyuan Jing , Yanmin Zhu , Tianzi Zang , Ke Wang

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) has managed to match or surpass the performance of supervised learning in image and video classification. However, it is still largely unknown if the nature of the representations induced by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Rohit Gupta , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Pursuing realistic results according to human visual perception is the central concern in the image transformation tasks. Perceptual learning approaches like perceptual loss are empirically powerful for such tasks but they usually rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Kangfu Mei , Yao Lu , Qiaosi Yi , Haoyu Wu , Juncheng Li , Rui Huang

Recently, dense contrastive learning has shown superior performance on dense prediction tasks compared to instance-level contrastive learning. Despite its supremacy, the properties of dense contrastive representations have not yet been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jong Hak Moon , Wonjae Kim , Edward Choi

Understanding self-supervised learning is important but challenging. Previous theoretical works study the role of pretraining losses, and view neural networks as general black boxes. However, the recent work of Saunshi et al. argues that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jeff Z. HaoChen , Tengyu Ma

Recently, self-supervised representation learning gives further development in multimedia technology. Most existing self-supervised learning methods are applicable to packaged data. However, when it comes to streamed data, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Hongxiang Lin

Contrastive learning is one of the fastest growing research areas in machine learning due to its ability to learn useful representations without labeled data. However, contrastive learning is susceptible to feature suppression, i.e., it may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tianhong Li , Lijie Fan , Yuan Yuan , Hao He , Yonglong Tian , Rogerio Feris , Piotr Indyk , Dina Katabi

Self-supervised learning is a machine learning approach that generates implicit labels by learning underlined patterns and extracting discriminative features from unlabeled data without manual labelling. Contrastive learning introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Asifullah Khan , Laiba Asmatullah , Anza Malik , Shahzaib Khan , Hamna Asif

In response to an object presentation, supervised learning schemes generally respond with a parsimonious label. Upon a similar presentation we humans respond again with a label, but are flooded, in addition, by a myriad of associations. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Daniel N. Nissani

Sample contrastive methods, typically referred to simply as contrastive are the foundation of most unsupervised methods to learn text and sentence embeddings. On the other hand, a different class of self-supervised loss functions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Marco Farina , Duccio Pappadopulo

This paper explores useful modifications of the recent development in contrastive learning via novel probabilistic modeling. We derive a particular form of contrastive loss named Joint Contrastive Learning (JCL). JCL implicitly involves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qi Cai , Yu Wang , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

The deep convolutional neural network(CNN) has significantly raised the performance of image classification and face recognition. Softmax is usually used as supervision, but it only penalizes the classification loss. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Ce Qi , Fei Su

Long-term forecasting presents unique challenges due to the time and memory complexity of handling long sequences. Existing methods, which rely on sliding windows to process long sequences, struggle to effectively capture long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junwoo Park , Daehoon Gwak , Jaegul Choo , Edward Choi

We present a new self-supervised pre-training of Vision Transformers for dense prediction tasks. It is based on a contrastive loss across views that compares pixel-level representations to global image representations. This strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jaonary Rabarisoa , Valentin Belissen , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

In recent times, contrastive learning based loss functions have become increasingly popular for visual self-supervised representation learning owing to their state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Most of the modern contrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Chaitanya Animesh , Manmohan Chandraker

Recent years have witnessed many successful applications of contrastive learning in diverse domains, yet its self-supervised version still remains many exciting challenges. As the negative samples are drawn from unlabeled datasets, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Bin Liu , Bang Wang , Tianrui Li

An effective framework for learning 3D representations for perception tasks is distilling rich self-supervised image features via contrastive learning. However, image-to point representation learning for autonomous driving datasets faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Anas Mahmoud , Jordan S. K. Hu , Tianshu Kuai , Ali Harakeh , Liam Paull , Steven L. Waslander

We present a principled and simplified design of the projector and loss function for non-contrastive self-supervised learning based on hyperdimensional computing. We theoretically demonstrate that this design introduces an inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Emanuele Sansone , Tim Lebailly , Tinne Tuytelaars

Self-supervised learning is an empirically successful approach to unsupervised learning based on creating artificial supervised learning problems. A popular self-supervised approach to representation learning is contrastive learning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Christopher Tosh , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Daniel Hsu