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Despite recent advancements in deep learning, its application in real-world medical settings, such as phonocardiogram (PCG) classification, remains limited. A significant barrier is the lack of high-quality annotated datasets, which hampers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Aristotelis Ballas , Vasileios Papapanagiotou , Christos Diou

Pre-trained language models have proven their unique powers in capturing implicit language features. However, most pre-training approaches focus on the word-level training objective, while sentence-level objectives are rarely studied. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhuofeng Wu , Sinong Wang , Jiatao Gu , Madian Khabsa , Fei Sun , Hao Ma

Self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to find meaningful representations from unlabeled data by encoding semantic similarities through data augmentations. Despite its current popularity, theoretical insights about SSL are still scarce. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Maximilian Fleissner , Pascal Esser , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

Contrastive learning is a model pre-training technique by first creating similar views of the original data, and then encouraging the data and its corresponding views to be close in the embedding space. Contrastive learning has witnessed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Cui , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Junwei Ma , Tongzi Wu , Yi Sui , Keyvan Golestan

The representation learning problem in the oil & gas industry aims to construct a model that provides a representation based on logging data for a well interval. Previous attempts are mainly supervised and focus on similarity task, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Alexander Marusov , Alexey Zaytsev

Self-supervised learning (SSL) recently has achieved outstanding success on recommendation. By setting up an auxiliary task (either predictive or contrastive), SSL can discover supervisory signals from the raw data without human annotation,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yinghui Tao , Min Gao , Junliang Yu , Zongwei Wang , Qingyu Xiong , Xu Wang

Contrastive learning-based recommendation algorithms have significantly advanced the field of self-supervised recommendation, particularly with BPR as a representative ranking prediction task that dominates implicit collaborative filtering.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shipeng Song , Bin Liu , Fei Teng , Tianrui Li

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful technique for learning from unlabeled data. By learning to remain invariant to applied data augmentations, methods such as SimCLR and MoCo can reach quality on par with supervised approaches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Marcin Przewięźlikowski , Mateusz Pyla , Bartosz Zieliński , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Jacek Tabor , Marek Śmieja

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the challenge of limited labeled data in deep neural networks (DNNs), offering scalability potential. However, the impact of design dependencies within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Shruthi Gowda , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

In recent years, self-supervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition has been developed with the advance of contrastive learning methods. The existing contrastive learning methods use normal augmentations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Tianyu Guo , Hong Liu , Zhan Chen , Mengyuan Liu , Tao Wang , Runwei Ding

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien

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

Self-supervised contrastive learning has become a key technique in deep learning, particularly in time series analysis, due to its ability to learn meaningful representations without explicit supervision. Augmentation is a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ziyu Liu , Azadeh Alavi , Minyi Li , Xiang Zhang

Fine-tuning a pre-trained language model via the contrastive learning framework with a large amount of unlabeled sentences or labeled sentence pairs is a common way to obtain high-quality sentence representations. Although the contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Tianduo Wang , Wei Lu

In recent years, self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach for extracting valuable representations from unlabeled data. One successful SSL method is contrastive learning, which aims to bring positive examples closer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Zeen Song , Xingzhe Su , Jingyao Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun

We investigate whether self-supervised learning (SSL) can improve online reinforcement learning (RL) from pixels. We extend the contrastive reinforcement learning framework (e.g., CURL) that jointly optimizes SSL and RL losses and conduct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xiang Li , Jinghuan Shang , Srijan Das , Michael S. Ryoo

Learning reinforcement learning (RL)-based recommenders from historical user-item interaction sequences is vital to generate high-reward recommendations and improve long-term cumulative benefits. However, existing RL recommendation methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zhaochun Ren , Na Huang , Yidan Wang , Pengjie Ren , Jun Ma , Jiahuan Lei , Xinlei Shi , Hengliang Luo , Joemon M Jose , Xin Xin

Session-based recommendation, which aims to predict the next item of users' interest as per an existing sequence interaction of items, has attracted growing applications of Contrastive Learning (CL) with improved user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zhengxiang Shi , Xi Wang , Aldo Lipani

Attention-based sequential recommendation methods have shown promise in accurately capturing users' evolving interests from their past interactions. Recent research has also explored the integration of reinforcement learning (RL) into these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Melissa Mozifian , Tristan Sylvain , Dave Evans , Lili Meng

Learning sentence embeddings in an unsupervised manner is fundamental in natural language processing. Recent common practice is to couple pre-trained language models with unsupervised contrastive learning, whose success relies on augmenting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Can Xu , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang