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Contrastive learning has become a key component of self-supervised learning approaches for computer vision. By learning to embed two augmented versions of the same image close to each other and to push the embeddings of different images…

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Contrastive learning has delivered impressive results for various tasks in the self-supervised regime. However, existing approaches optimize for learning representations specific to downstream scenarios, i.e., \textit{global}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

As a seminal tool in self-supervised representation learning, contrastive learning has gained unprecedented attention in recent years. In essence, contrastive learning aims to leverage pairs of positive and negative samples for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ching-Yun Ko , Jeet Mohapatra , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Luca Daniel , Lily Weng

Contrastive learning methods for unsupervised visual representation learning have reached remarkable levels of transfer performance. We argue that the power of contrastive learning has yet to be fully unleashed, as current methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Zhenda Xie , Yutong Lin , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Stephen Lin , Han Hu

A lot of recent advances in unsupervised feature learning are based on designing features which are invariant under semantic data augmentations. A common way to do this is contrastive learning, which uses positive and negative samples. Some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Ashwini Pokle , Jinjin Tian , Yuchen Li , Andrej Risteski

We study the problem of adversarially robust self-supervised learning on graphs. In the contrastive learning framework, we introduce a new method that increases the adversarial robustness of the learned representations through i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Nikola Jovanović , Zhao Meng , Lukas Faber , Roger Wattenhofer

In reinforcement learning (RL), it is easier to solve a task if given a good representation. While deep RL should automatically acquire such good representations, prior work often finds that learning representations in an end-to-end fashion…

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This paper presents Prototypical Contrastive Learning (PCL), an unsupervised representation learning method that addresses the fundamental limitations of instance-wise contrastive learning. PCL not only learns low-level features for the…

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Although transformer-based models have shown strong performance in word- and sentence-level tasks, effectively representing long documents, especially in fields like law and medicine, remains difficult. Sparse attention mechanisms can…

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Continual learning of new knowledge over time is one desirable capability for intelligent systems to recognize more and more classes of objects. Without or with very limited amount of old data stored, an intelligent system often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Zhuoyun Li , Changhong Zhong , Sijia Liu , Ruixuan Wang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Deep learning has shown its human-level performance in various applications. However, current deep learning models are characterised by catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge when learning new classes. This poses a challenge particularly…

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Sequential recommendation methods play a crucial role in modern recommender systems because of their ability to capture a user's dynamic interest from her/his historical interactions. Despite their success, we argue that these approaches…

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The so-called Forward-Forward Algorithm (FFA) has recently gained momentum as an alternative to the conventional back-propagation algorithm for neural network learning, yielding competitive performance across various modeling tasks. By…

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Multi-modal contrastive learning with language supervision has presented a paradigm shift in modern machine learning. By pre-training on a web-scale dataset, multi-modal contrastive learning can learn high-quality representations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Wei Huang , Andi Han , Yongqiang Chen , Yuan Cao , Zhiqiang Xu , Taiji Suzuki

We present an approach that incorporates expert knowledge for time-series representation learning. Our method employs expert features to replace the commonly used data transformations in previous contrastive learning approaches. We do this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Manuel Nonnenmacher , Lukas Oldenburg , Ingo Steinwart , David Reeb

In recent years, object detection has shown impressive results using supervised deep learning, but it remains challenging in a cross-domain environment. The variations of illumination, style, scale, and appearance in different domains can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Rongchang Xie , Fei Yu , Jiachao Wang , Yizhou Wang , Li Zhang

Few-shot classification and meta-learning methods typically struggle to generalize across diverse domains, as most approaches focus on a single dataset, failing to transfer knowledge across various seen and unseen domains. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kristi Topollai , Anna Choromanska

As a successful approach to self-supervised learning, contrastive learning aims to learn invariant information shared among distortions of the input sample. While contrastive learning has yielded continuous advancements in sampling strategy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiangmeng Li , Wenwen Qiang , Yanan Zhang , Wenyi Mo , Changwen Zheng , Bing Su , Hui Xiong

Contrastive, self-supervised learning of object representations recently emerged as an attractive alternative to reconstruction-based training. Prior approaches focus on contrasting individual object representations (slots) against one…

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