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This work considers supervised contrastive learning for semantic segmentation. We apply contrastive learning to enhance the discriminative power of the multi-scale features extracted by semantic segmentation networks. Our key methodological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Theodoros Pissas , Claudio S. Ravasio , Lyndon Da Cruz , Christos Bergeles

Pretrained language models for code token embeddings are used in code search, code clone detection, and other code-related tasks. Similarly, code function embeddings are useful in such tasks. However, there are no out-of-box models for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Anthony Varkey , Siyuan Jiang , Weijing Huang

Contrastive learning has moved the state of the art for many tasks in computer vision and information retrieval in recent years. This poster is the first work that applies supervised contrastive learning to the task of product matching in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ralph Peeters , Christian Bizer

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki

Contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks by learning from aligned image-text pairs. However, their ability to handle complex, real-world web documents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yiqi Lin , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Mike Zheng Shou

Decoding from the output distributions of large language models to produce high-quality text is a complex challenge in language modeling. Various approaches, such as beam search, sampling with temperature, $k-$sampling, nucleus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Esteban Garces Arias , Julian Rodemann , Meimingwei Li , Christian Heumann , Matthias Aßenmacher

Contrastive learning has emerged as a transformative method for learning effective visual representations through the alignment of image and text embeddings. However, pairwise similarity computation in contrastive loss between image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Sachin Mehta , Maxwell Horton , Fartash Faghri , Mohammad Hossein Sekhavat , Mahyar Najibi , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Oncel Tuzel , Mohammad Rastegari

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang

Pre-trained contrastive vision-language models have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. However, they often struggle on fine-trained datasets with categories not adequately represented during pre-training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yifei Ming , Yixuan Li

Bimodal software analysis initially appeared to be within reach with the advent of large language models. Unfortunately, the complex interplay of natural language text and code in software engineering, presents unique challenges that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Xunzhu Tang , Liran Wang , Yonghui Liu , Linzheng Chai , Jian Yang , Zhoujun Li , Haoye Tian , Jacques Klein , Tegawende F. Bissyande

Code search, framed as information retrieval (IR), underpins modern software engineering and increasingly powers retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), improving code discovery, reuse, and the reliability of LLM-based coding. Yet existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jiahui Geng , Qing Li , Fengyu Cai , Fakhri Karray

Contrastive learning with Transformer-based sequence encoder has gained predominance for sequential recommendation. It maximizes the agreements between paired sequence augmentations that share similar semantics. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hanwen Du , Hui Shi , Pengpeng Zhao , Deqing Wang , Victor S. Sheng , Yanchi Liu , Guanfeng Liu , Lei Zhao

Contrastive learning allows us to flexibly define powerful losses by contrasting positive pairs from sets of negative samples. Recently, the principle has also been used to learn cross-modal embeddings for video and text, yet without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Yi Zhu , Peter Gehler , Thomas Brox

Multimodal code generation has garnered significant interest within the research community. Despite the notable success of recent vision-language models (VLMs) on specialized tasks like chart-to-code generation, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xuanle Zhao , Deyang Jiang , Zhixiong Zeng , Lei Chen , Haibo Qiu , Jing Huang , Yufeng Zhong , Liming Zheng , Yilin Cao , Lin Ma

Existing multilingual embedding models often encounter challenges in cross-lingual scenarios due to imbalanced linguistic resources and less consideration of cross-lingual alignment during training. Although standardized contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Seungyoon Lee , Minhyuk Kim , Seongtae Hong , Youngjoon Jang , Dongsuk Oh , Heuiseok Lim

In-context learning is a new learning paradigm where a language model conditions on a few input-output pairs (demonstrations) and a test input, and directly outputs the prediction. It has been shown highly dependent on the provided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xiaonan Li , Kai Lv , Hang Yan , Tianyang Lin , Wei Zhu , Yuan Ni , Guotong Xie , Xiaoling Wang , Xipeng Qiu

Generative retrieval constitutes an innovative approach in information retrieval, leveraging generative language models (LM) to generate a ranked list of document identifiers (docid) for a given query. It simplifies the retrieval pipeline…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Penghao Lu , Xin Dong , Yuansheng Zhou , Lei Cheng , Chuan Yuan , Linjian Mo

This paper investigates negative sampling for contrastive learning in the context of audio-text retrieval. The strategy for negative sampling refers to selecting negatives (either audio clips or textual descriptions) from a pool of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Huang Xie , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

State-of-the-art model for zero-shot cross-lingual spoken language understanding performs cross-lingual unsupervised contrastive learning to achieve the label-agnostic semantic alignment between each utterance and its code-switched data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Bowen Xing , Ivor W. Tsang

Text-to-shape retrieval is an increasingly relevant problem with the growth of 3D shape data. Recent work on contrastive losses for learning joint embeddings over multimodal data has been successful at tasks such as retrieval and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yue Ruan , Han-Hung Lee , Yiming Zhang , Ke Zhang , Angel X. Chang