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Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Exemplar learning is a powerful paradigm for discovering visual similarities in an unsupervised manner. In this context, however, the recent breakthrough in deep learning could not yet unfold its full potential. With only a single positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Miguel A. Bautista , Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Ekaterina Sutter , Björn Ommer

Foundational models are trained on extensive datasets to capture the general trends of a domain. However, in medical imaging, the scarcity of data makes pre-training for every domain, modality, or task challenging. Continual learning offers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Mohammad Areeb Qazi , Munachiso S Nwadike , Ibrahim Almakky , Mohammad Yaqub , Numan Saeed

Long-horizon robotic tasks are hard due to continuous state-action spaces and sparse feedback. Symbolic world models help by decomposing tasks into discrete predicates that capture object properties and relations. Existing methods learn…

Self-supervised learning is a machine learning approach that generates implicit labels by learning underlined patterns and extracting discriminative features from unlabeled data without manual labelling. Contrastive learning introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Asifullah Khan , Laiba Asmatullah , Anza Malik , Shahzaib Khan , Hamna Asif

Subtype Discovery consists in finding interpretable and consistent sub-parts of a dataset, which are also relevant to a certain supervised task. From a mathematical point of view, this can be defined as a clustering task driven by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-06 Robin Louiset , Pietro Gori , Benoit Dufumier , Josselin Houenou , Antoine Grigis , Edouard Duchesnay

Recent advances in vision-language pre-training have enabled machines to perform better in multimodal object discrimination (e.g., image-text semantic alignment) and image synthesis (e.g., text-to-image generation). On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xiao Dong , Runhui Huang , Xiaoyong Wei , Zequn Jie , Jianxing Yu , Jian Yin , Xiaodan Liang

Subspace clustering aims to group data points that lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces and finds wide application in computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, and recommendation systems. However, most existing methods assume fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Huanran Li , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Continual learning (CL) aims to learn a sequence of tasks without forgetting the previously acquired knowledge. However, recent CL advances are restricted to supervised continual learning (SCL) scenarios. Consequently, they are not scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Divyam Madaan , Jaehong Yoon , Yuanchun Li , Yunxin Liu , Sung Ju Hwang

Rich temporal information and variations in viewpoints make video data an attractive choice for learning image representations using unsupervised contrastive learning (UCL) techniques. State-of-the-art (SOTA) contrastive learning techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-28 Soumen Basu , Somanshu Singla , Mayank Gupta , Pratyaksha Rana , Pankaj Gupta , Chetan Arora

Contrastive pre-training on distant supervision has shown remarkable effectiveness in improving supervised relation extraction tasks. However, the existing methods ignore the intrinsic noise of distant supervision during the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Zhen Wan , Fei Cheng , Qianying Liu , Zhuoyuan Mao , Haiyue Song , Sadao Kurohashi

Semi-supervised learning is attracting blooming attention, due to its success in combining unlabeled data. To mitigate potentially incorrect pseudo labels, recent frameworks mostly set a fixed confidence threshold to discard uncertain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Lihe Yang , Zhen Zhao , Lei Qi , Yu Qiao , Yinghuan Shi , Hengshuang Zhao

Despite recent success, most contrastive self-supervised learning methods are domain-specific, relying heavily on data augmentation techniques that require knowledge about a particular domain, such as image cropping and rotation. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vikas Verma , Minh-Thang Luong , Kenji Kawaguchi , Hieu Pham , Quoc V. Le

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

Self-supervised methods based on contrastive learning have achieved great success in unsupervised visual representation learning. However, most methods under this framework suffer from the problem of false negative samples. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Chen Peng , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li

Due to the advantages of leveraging unlabeled data and learning meaningful representations, semi-supervised learning and contrastive learning have been progressively combined to achieve better performances in popular applications with few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bowen Tao , Lan Li , Xin-Chun Li , De-Chuan Zhan

Pre-training general-purpose visual features with convolutional neural networks without relying on annotations is a challenging and important task. Most recent efforts in unsupervised feature learning have focused on either small or highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Julien Mairal , Armand Joulin

Mainstream 3D representation learning approaches are built upon contrastive or generative modeling pretext tasks, where great improvements in performance on various downstream tasks have been achieved. However, we find these two paradigms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zekun Qi , Runpei Dong , Guofan Fan , Zheng Ge , Xiangyu Zhang , Kaisheng Ma , Li Yi

Given imbalanced data, it is hard to train a good classifier using deep learning because of the poor generalization of minority classes. Traditionally, the well-known synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) for data augmentation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Wei-Chao Cheng , Tan-Ha Mai , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods based on the instance discrimination tasks with InfoNCE have achieved remarkable success. Despite their success, SSL models often struggle to generate effective representations for unseen-domain data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jin-Seop Lee , Noo-ri Kim , Jee-Hyong Lee