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Unsupervised learning has recently significantly gained in popularity, especially with deep learning-based approaches. Despite numerous successes and approaching supervised-level performance on a variety of academic benchmarks, it is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Anton Tsitsulin , Marina Munkhoeva , Bryan Perozzi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a popular method for generating invariant representations without the need for human annotations. Nonetheless, the desired invariant representation is achieved by utilising prior online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Foivos Ntelemis , Yaochu Jin , Spencer A. Thomas

Self-supervised representation learning~(SSRL) has advanced considerably by exploiting the transformation invariance assumption under artificially designed data augmentations. While augmentation-based SSRL algorithms push the boundaries of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yi Sui , Tongzi Wu , Jesse C. Cresswell , Ga Wu , George Stein , Xiao Shi Huang , Xiaochen Zhang , Maksims Volkovs

Self-supervised learning (SSL) plays a central role in molecular representation learning. Yet, many recent innovations in masking-based pretraining are introduced as heuristics and lack principled evaluation, obscuring which design choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiannan Yang , Veronika Thost , Tengfei Ma

Meta-reinforcement learning algorithms provide a data-driven way to acquire policies that quickly adapt to many tasks with varying rewards or dynamics functions. However, learned meta-policies are often effective only on the exact task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Anurag Ajay , Abhishek Gupta , Dibya Ghosh , Sergey Levine , Pulkit Agrawal

Training machine learning models that are robust against adversarial inputs poses seemingly insurmountable challenges. To better understand adversarial robustness, we consider the underlying problem of learning robust representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sicheng Zhu , Xiao Zhang , David Evans

Recent research put a big effort in the development of deep learning architectures and optimizers obtaining impressive results in areas ranging from vision to language processing. However little attention has been addressed to the need of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Daniele Della Latta , Nicola Martini , Gianmarco Santini , Dante Chiappino , Emiliano Ricciardi

Artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated to play a pivotal role in 6G. However, a key challenge in developing AI-powered solutions is the extensive data collection and labeling efforts required to train supervised deep learning models.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Ogechukwu Kanu , Ashkan Eshaghbeigi , Hatem Abou-Zeid

In self-supervised learning (SSL), representations are learned via an auxiliary task without annotated labels. A common task is to classify augmentations or different modalities of the data, which share semantic content (e.g. an object in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Alice Bizeul , Bernhard Schölkopf , Carl Allen

Self-supervision provides effective representations for downstream tasks without requiring labels. However, existing approaches lag behind fully supervised training and are often not thought beneficial beyond obviating or reducing the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Dan Hendrycks , Mantas Mazeika , Saurav Kadavath , Dawn Song

Unsupervised representation learning leverages large unlabeled datasets and is competitive with supervised learning. But non-robust encoders may affect downstream task robustness. Recently, robust representation encoders have become of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Aleksandar Petrov , Marta Kwiatkowska

Machine Learning (ML) has been a foundational topic in artificial intelligence (AI), providing both theoretical groundwork and practical tools for its exciting advancements. From ResNet for visual recognition to Transformer for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhuo Huang

We propose self-adaptive training -- a unified training algorithm that dynamically calibrates and enhances training processes by model predictions without incurring an extra computational cost -- to advance both supervised and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lang Huang , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

Non-adversarial robustness, also known as natural robustness, is a property of deep learning models that enables them to maintain performance even when faced with distribution shifts caused by natural variations in data. However, achieving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Gorana Gojić , Vladimir Vincan , Ognjen Kundačina , Dragiša Mišković , Dinu Dragan

Machine learning models are often trained on data from one distribution and deployed on others. So it becomes important to design models that are robust to distribution shifts. Most of the existing work focuses on optimizing for either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Harvineet Singh , Shalmali Joshi , Finale Doshi-Velez , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is the branch of machine learning that aims to improve learning performance by leveraging unlabeled data when labels are insufficient. Recently, SSL with deep models has proven to be successful on standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Lan-Zhe Guo , Zhi Zhou , Yu-Feng Li

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

After four decades of research there still exists a Classification accuracy gap of about 20% between our best Unsupervisedly Learned Representations methods and the accuracy rates achieved by intelligent animals. It thus may well be that we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Daniel N. Nissani

State-of-the-art deep learning models are often trained with a large amount of costly labeled training data. However, requiring exhaustive manual annotations may degrade the model's generalizability in the limited-label regime.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yanbei Chen , Massimiliano Mancini , Xiatian Zhu , Zeynep Akata

We propose a novel method for semi-supervised learning (SSL) based on data-driven distributionally robust optimization (DRO) using optimal transport metrics. Our proposed method enhances generalization error by using the unlabeled data to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-21 Jose Blanchet , Yang Kang