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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

Contrastive learning (CL) has recently been applied to adversarial learning tasks. Such practice considers adversarial samples as additional positive views of an instance, and by maximizing their agreements with each other, yields better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Qiying Yu , Jieming Lou , Xianyuan Zhan , Qizhang Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Yang Liu , Jingjing Liu

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 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

What do different contrastive learning (CL) losses actually optimize for? Although multiple CL methods have demonstrated remarkable representation learning capabilities, the differences in their inner workings remain largely opaque. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Panagiotis Koromilas , Giorgos Bouritsas , Theodoros Giannakopoulos , Mihalis Nicolaou , Yannis Panagakis

Learning invariant representations is a critical first step in a number of machine learning tasks. A common approach corresponds to the so-called information bottleneck principle in which an application dependent function of mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Aditya Kumar Akash , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande , Sathya N. Ravi , Vikas Singh

Contrastive learning applied to self-supervised representation learning has seen a resurgence in recent years, leading to state of the art performance in the unsupervised training of deep image models. Modern batch contrastive approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Prannay Khosla , Piotr Teterwak , Chen Wang , Aaron Sarna , Yonglong Tian , Phillip Isola , Aaron Maschinot , Ce Liu , Dilip Krishnan

Contrastive learning (CL) is a popular technique for self-supervised learning (SSL) of visual representations. It uses pairs of augmentations of unlabeled training examples to define a classification task for pretext learning of a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Chih-Hui Ho , Nuno Vasconcelos

Contrastive learning has gained popularity and pushes state-of-the-art performance across numerous large-scale benchmarks. In contrastive learning, the contrastive loss function plays a pivotal role in discerning similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haojin Deng , Yimin Yang

Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning has proven effective in deriving high-quality representations from unlabeled data. However, a major challenge that hinders both unimodal and multimodal contrastive learning is feature suppression, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jihai Zhang , Xiang Lan , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng , Mengling Feng , Bryan Hooi

Contrastive learning (CL) methods effectively learn data representations in a self-supervision manner, where the encoder contrasts each positive sample over multiple negative samples via a one-vs-many softmax cross-entropy loss. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Huangjie Zheng , Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Hongxia Yang , Chunyuan Li , Ya Zhang , Hao Zhang , Ivor Tsang , Jingren Zhou , Mingyuan Zhou

For a widely-studied data model and general loss and sample-hardening functions we prove that the losses of Supervised Contrastive Learning (SCL), Hard-SCL (HSCL), and Unsupervised Contrastive Learning (UCL) are minimized by representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ruijie Jiang , Thuan Nguyen , Shuchin Aeron , Prakash Ishwar

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve remarkable success in Recommendation. To reduce the influence of data sparsity, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is adopted in GNN-based CF methods for enhancing performance. Most GCL methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Junjie Huang , Qi Cao , Ruobing Xie , Shaoliang Zhang , Feng Xia , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in representation learning by minimizing the distance between positive pairs while maximizing that of negative ones. Recently, it has been verified that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jin-Young Kim , Soonwoo Kwon , Hyojun Go , Yunsung Lee , Seungtaek Choi , Hyun-Gyoon Kim

As an exemplary self-supervised approach for representation learning, time-series contrastive learning has exhibited remarkable advancements in contemporary research. While recent contrastive learning strategies have focused on how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiyuan Jin , Jing Wang , Lei Liu , Youfang Lin

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

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

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success in self-supervised representation learning, often guided by information-theoretic objectives such as mutual information maximization. Motivated by the limitations of static augmentations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiansong Zhang , Zhuoqin Yang , Xu Wu , Xiaoling Luo , Peizhong Liu , Linlin Shen

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

We propose a novel contrastive learning framework to effectively address the challenges of data heterogeneity in federated learning. We first analyze the inconsistency of gradient updates across clients during local training and establish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Seonguk Seo , Jinkyu Kim , Geeho Kim , Bohyung Han