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Contrastive learning is a well-established paradigm in representation learning. The standard framework of contrastive learning minimizes the distance between "similar" instances and maximizes the distance between dissimilar ones in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Naghmeh Ghanooni , Barbod Pajoum , Harshit Rawal , Sophie Fellenz , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Marius Kloft

Multimodal imaging and correlative analysis typically require image alignment. Contrastive learning can generate representations of multimodal images, reducing the challenging task of multimodal image registration to a monomodal one.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Elisabeth Wetzer , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Vision-language models (VLMs) mainly rely on contrastive training to learn general-purpose representations of images and captions. We focus on the situation when one image is associated with several captions, each caption containing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Maurits Bleeker , Mariya Hendriksen , Andrew Yates , Maarten de Rijke

Deep models have been widely and successfully used in image manipulation detection, which aims to classify tampered images and localize tampered regions. Most existing methods mainly focus on extracting global features from tampered images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yuyuan Zeng , Bowen Zhao , Shanzhao Qiu , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia

This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

Contrastive vision-language models, such as CLIP, have garnered considerable attention for various downstream tasks, mainly due to the remarkable ability of the learned features for generalization. However, the features they learned often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Recent progress in contrastive learning has revolutionized unsupervised representation learning. Concretely, multiple views (augmentations) from the same image are encouraged to map to the similar embeddings, while views from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Nanxuan Zhao , Zhirong Wu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Stephen Lin

Contrastive learning has gained significant attention in short text clustering, yet it has an inherent drawback of mistakenly identifying samples from the same category as negatives and then separating them in the feature space (false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhihao Yao

Learning representations of images that are invariant to sensitive or unwanted attributes is important for many tasks including bias removal and cross domain retrieval. Here, our objective is to learn representations that are invariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jonathan Kahana , Yedid Hoshen

To improve performance in visual feature representation from photos or videos for practical applications, we generally require large-scale human-annotated labeled data while training deep neural networks. However, the cost of gathering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhenyuan Lu

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

Visual and linguistic pre-training aims to learn vision and language representations together, which can be transferred to visual-linguistic downstream tasks. However, there exists semantic confusion between language and vision during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shentong Mo , Jingfei Xia , Ihor Markevych

The dominant paradigm for learning video-text representations -- noise contrastive learning -- increases the similarity of the representations of pairs of samples that are known to be related, such as text and video from the same sample,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Mandela Patrick , Po-Yao Huang , Yuki Asano , Florian Metze , Alexander Hauptmann , João Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Distance-based anomaly detection methods rely on compact in-distribution (ID) embeddings that are well separated from anomalies. However, conventional contrastive learning strategies often struggle to achieve this balance, either promoting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Willian T. Lunardi , Abdulrahman Banabila , Dania Herzalla , Martin Andreoni

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

Contrastive learning has shown remarkable results in recent self-supervised approaches for visual representation. By learning to contrast positive pairs' representation from the corresponding negatives pairs, one can train good visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Sungnyun Kim , Gihun Lee , Sangmin Bae , Se-Young Yun

We introduce CAN, a simple, efficient and scalable method for self-supervised learning of visual representations. Our framework is a minimal and conceptually clean synthesis of (C) contrastive learning, (A) masked autoencoders, and (N) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shlok Mishra , Joshua Robinson , Huiwen Chang , David Jacobs , Aaron Sarna , Aaron Maschinot , Dilip Krishnan

Creating representations of shapes that are invari-ant to isometric or almost-isometric transforma-tions has long been an area of interest in shape anal-ysis, since enforcing invariance allows the learningof more effective and robust shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Jeffrey Gu , Serena Yeung

In this paper, we present a new cross-architecture contrastive learning (CACL) framework for self-supervised video representation learning. CACL consists of a 3D CNN and a video transformer which are used in parallel to generate diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Sheng Guo , Zihua Xiong , Yujie Zhong , Limin Wang , Xiaobo Guo , Bing Han , Weilin Huang

Learning disentangled representations of real-world data is a challenging open problem. Most previous methods have focused on either supervised approaches which use attribute labels or unsupervised approaches that manipulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Vikash Balasubramanian , Ivan Kobyzev , Hareesh Bahuleyan , Ilya Shapiro , Olga Vechtomova