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Supervised contrastive learning (SupCon) is widely used to shape representations, but has seen limited targeted study for audio deepfake detection. Existing work typically combines contrastive terms with broader pipelines; however, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Jaskirat Sudan , Hashim Ali , Surya Subramani , Hafiz Malik

Contrastive learning has become pivotal in unsupervised representation learning, with frameworks like Momentum Contrast (MoCo) effectively utilizing large negative sample sets to extract discriminative features. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Duy Hoang , Huy Ngo , Khoi Pham , Tri Nguyen , Gia Bao , Huy Phan

Contrastive learning is a promising approach to unsupervised learning, as it inherits the advantages of well-studied deep models without a dedicated and complex model design. In this paper, based on bidirectional encoder representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Haoxiang Shi , Cen Wang

Image classification is hindered by subtle inter-class differences and substantial intra-class variations, which limit the effectiveness of existing contrastive learning methods. Supervised contrastive approaches based on the InfoNCE loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bin Wang , Fadi Dornaika

Mixup is a regularization technique that artificially produces new samples using convex combinations of original training points. This simple technique has shown strong empirical performance, and has been heavily used as part of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Arslan Chaudhry , Aditya Krishna Menon , Andreas Veit , Sadeep Jayasumana , Srikumar Ramalingam , Sanjiv Kumar

Unsupervised contrastive learning has shown significant performance improvements in recent years, often approaching or even rivaling supervised learning in various tasks. However, its learning mechanism is fundamentally different from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yi-Ge Zhang , Jingyi Cui , Qiran Li , Yisen Wang

The success of deep learning is usually accompanied by the growth in neural network depth. However, the traditional training method only supervises the neural network at its last layer and propagates the supervision layer-by-layer, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Linfeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Junbo Zhang , Runpei Dong , Kaisheng Ma

One of the challenges in contrastive learning is the selection of appropriate \textit{hard negative} examples, in the absence of label information. Random sampling or importance sampling methods based on feature similarity often lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Afrina Tabassum , Muntasir Wahed , Hoda Eldardiry , Ismini Lourentzou

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

Self-supervised contrastive learning (SSCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning and has been studied from multiple perspectives, including mutual information and geometric viewpoints. However, supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Minoh Jeong , Alfred Hero

Mixup is a well-known data-dependent augmentation technique for DNNs, consisting of two sub-tasks: mixup generation and classification. However, the recent dominant online training method confines mixup to supervised learning (SL), and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Siyuan Li , Zicheng Liu , Zedong Wang , Di Wu , Zihan Liu , Stan Z. Li

In this work, we study Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) in a challenging self-supervised approach. One of the difficulties is how to learn task discrimination in the absence of target labels. Unlike previous literature which directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Quanyu Long , Tianze Luo , Wenya Wang , Sinno Jialin Pan

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have demonstrated a very promising ability in high-resolution image synthesis. However, sampling from a pre-trained DPM is time-consuming due to the multiple evaluations of the denoising network, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Wenliang Zhao , Lujia Bai , Yongming Rao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Semi-supervised learning has proven to be a powerful paradigm for leveraging unlabeled data to mitigate the reliance on large labeled datasets. In this work, we unify the current dominant approaches for semi-supervised learning to produce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 David Berthelot , Nicholas Carlini , Ian Goodfellow , Nicolas Papernot , Avital Oliver , Colin Raffel

Current unified multimodal models typically rely on discrete visual tokenizers to bridge the modality gap. However, discretization inevitably discards fine-grained semantic information, leading to suboptimal performance in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yaqi Zhao , Wang Lin , Zijian Zhang , Miles Yang , Jingyuan Chen , Wentao Zhang , Zhao Zhong , Liefeng Bo

Contrastive language-image Pre-training (CLIP) [13] can leverage large datasets of unlabeled Image-Text pairs, which have demonstrated impressive performance in various downstream tasks. Given that annotating medical data is time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Yuhao Wang

This paper introduces SelfMatch, a semi-supervised learning method that combines the power of contrastive self-supervised learning and consistency regularization. SelfMatch consists of two stages: (1) self-supervised pre-training based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Byoungjip Kim , Jinho Choo , Yeong-Dae Kwon , Seongho Joe , Seungjai Min , Youngjune Gwon

Recently, a noticeable trend has emerged in developing pre-trained foundation models in the domains of CV and NLP. However, for molecular pre-training, there lacks a universal model capable of effectively applying to various categories of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-21 Shikun Feng , Yuyan Ni , Minghao Li , Yanwen Huang , Zhi-Ming Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

As one of the most effective self-supervised representation learning methods, contrastive learning (CL) relies on multiple negative pairs to contrast against each positive pair. In the standard practice of contrastive learning, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Lu Wang , Chao Du , Pu Zhao , Chuan Luo , Zhangchi Zhu , Bo Qiao , Wei Zhang , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Zhang

Unsupervised learning is a challenging task due to the lack of labels. Multiple Object Tracking (MOT), which inevitably suffers from mutual object interference, occlusion, etc., is even more difficult without label supervision. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sha Meng , Dian Shao , Jiacheng Guo , Shan Gao