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In the field of continual learning, models are designed to learn tasks one after the other. While most research has centered on supervised continual learning, there is a growing interest in unsupervised continual learning, which makes use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Daniel Marczak , Sebastian Cygert , Tomasz Trzciński , Bartłomiej Twardowski

Reading comprehension is a challenging task in natural language processing and requires a set of skills to be solved. While current approaches focus on solving the task as a whole, in this paper, we propose to use a neural network `skill'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Todor Mihaylov , Zornitsa Kozareva , Anette Frank

Labeling a large set of data is expensive. Active learning aims to tackle this problem by asking to annotate only the most informative data from the unlabeled set. We propose a novel active learning approach that utilizes self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 John Seon Keun Yi , Minseok Seo , Jongchan Park , Dong-Geol Choi

Self-supervised learning has been widely used to obtain transferrable representations from unlabeled images. Especially, recent contrastive learning methods have shown impressive performances on downstream image classification tasks. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Byungseok Roh , Wuhyun Shin , Ildoo Kim , Sungwoong Kim

Successive Subspace Learning (SSL) offers a light-weight unsupervised feature learning method based on inherent statistical properties of data units (e.g. image pixels and points in point cloud sets). It has shown promising results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mozhdeh Rouhsedaghat , Masoud Monajatipoor , Zohreh Azizi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

In medical image analysis, the cost of acquiring high-quality data and their annotation by experts is a barrier in many medical applications. Most of the techniques used are based on supervised learning framework and need a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Siladittya Manna , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal

Human adaptability relies crucially on learning and merging knowledge from both supervised and unsupervised tasks: the parents point out few important concepts, but then the children fill in the gaps on their own. This is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Silvia Bucci , Antonio D'Innocente , Yujun Liao , Fabio Maria Carlucci , Barbara Caputo , Tatiana Tommasi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods aim to exploit the abundance of unlabelled data for machine learning (ML), however the underlying principles are often method-specific. An SSL framework derived from biological first principles of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Franz Scherr , Qinghai Guo , Timoleon Moraitis

While state-of-the-art contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models produce results competitive with their supervised counterparts, they lack the ability to infer latent variables. In contrast, prescribed latent variable (LV) models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jason Ramapuram , Dan Busbridge , Xavier Suau , Russ Webb

Recent empirical works have successfully used unlabeled data to learn feature representations that are broadly useful in downstream classification tasks. Several of these methods are reminiscent of the well-known word2vec embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sanjeev Arora , Hrishikesh Khandeparkar , Mikhail Khodak , Orestis Plevrakis , Nikunj Saunshi

In this study, we aim to explore efficient tuning methods for speech self-supervised learning. Recent studies show that self-supervised learning (SSL) can learn powerful representations for different speech tasks. However, fine-tuning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Zih-Ching Chen , Chin-Lun Fu , Chih-Ying Liu , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

Self-supervised learning has become a popular approach in recent years for its ability to learn meaningful representations without the need for data annotation. This paper proposes a novel image augmentation technique, overlaying images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yinheng Li , Han Ding , Shaofei Wang

Despite the empirical successes of self-supervised learning (SSL) methods, it is unclear what characteristics of their representations lead to high downstream accuracies. In this work, we characterize properties that SSL representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yann Dubois , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Stefano Ermon , Percy Liang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) on graphs generates node and graph representations (i.e., embeddings) that can be used for downstream tasks such as node classification, node clustering, and link prediction. Graph SSL is particularly useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiali Chen , Avijit Mukherjee

The current success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in an increasingly broad range of tasks involving artificial intelligence strongly depends on the quality and quantity of labeled training data. In general, the scarcity of labeled data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Shun Kiyono , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

Incorporating heterogeneous representations from different architectures has facilitated various vision tasks, e.g., some hybrid networks combine transformers and convolutions. However, complementarity between such heterogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zhong-Yu Li , Bo-Wen Yin , Yongxiang Liu , Li Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Training a neural network with a large labeled dataset is still a dominant paradigm in computational histopathology. However, obtaining such exhaustive manual annotations is often expensive, laborious, and prone to inter and Intra-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Chetan L. Srinidhi , Seung Wook Kim , Fu-Der Chen , Anne L. Martel

Prior works on self-supervised pre-training focus on the joint training scenario, where massive unlabeled data are assumed to be given as input all at once, and only then is a learner trained. Unfortunately, such a problem setting is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Dapeng Hu , Shipeng Yan , Qizhengqiu Lu , Lanqing Hong , Hailin Hu , Yifan Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

The human ability to synchronize the feedback from all their senses inspired recent works in multi-task and multi-modal learning. While these works rely on expensive supervision, our multi-task graph requires only pseudo-labels from expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Emanuela Haller , Elena Burceanu , Marius Leordeanu

Tremendous progress has been made in visual representation learning, notably with the recent success of self-supervised contrastive learning methods. Supervised contrastive learning has also been shown to outperform its cross-entropy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Ashraful Islam , Chun-Fu Chen , Rameswar Panda , Leonid Karlinsky , Richard Radke , Rogerio Feris