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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully used in a range of tasks. However, CNNs are often viewed as "black-box" and lack of interpretability. One main reason is due to the filter-class entanglement -- an intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Haoyu Liang , Zhihao Ouyang , Yuyuan Zeng , Hang Su , Zihao He , Shu-Tao Xia , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Recently, a large number of neural mechanisms and models have been proposed for sequence learning, of which self-attention, as exemplified by the Transformer model, and graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted much attention. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Pengfei Liu , Shuaichen Chang , Xuanjing Huang , Jian Tang , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

A structured understanding of our world in terms of objects, relations, and hierarchies is an important component of human cognition. Learning such a structured world model from raw sensory data remains a challenge. As a step towards this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-07 Thomas Kipf , Elise van der Pol , Max Welling

Deep learning has recently achieved remarkable performance in image classification tasks, which depends heavily on massive annotation. However, the classification mechanism of existing deep learning models seems to contrast to humans'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zunlei Feng , Tian Qiu , Sai Wu , Xiaotuan Jin , Zengliang He , Mingli Song , Huiqiong Wang

Large Pre-trained Transformers exhibit an intriguing capacity for in-context learning. Without gradient updates, these models can rapidly construct new predictors from demonstrations presented in the inputs. Recent works promote this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yi-Syuan Chen , Yun-Zhu Song , Cheng Yu Yeo , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Hong-Han Shuai

Texture classification is a pivotal task in computer vision, presenting unique challenges due to high inter-class similarity and the sensitivity of structural patterns to scale and illumination changes. While Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Joao B Florindo

While contrastive learning is proven to be an effective training strategy in computer vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is only recently adopting it as a self-supervised alternative to Masked Language Modeling (MLM) for improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hooman Sedghamiz , Shivam Raval , Enrico Santus , Tuka Alhanai , Mohammad Ghassemi

Contrastive Learning (CL) has been successfully applied to classification and other downstream tasks related to concrete concepts, such as objects contained in the ImageNet dataset. No attempts seem to have been made so far in applying this…

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown exceptional performance for a range of medical imaging tasks. However, conventional CNNs are not able to explain their reasoning process, therefore limiting their adoption in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Linde S. Hesse , Ana I. L. Namburete

We propose a novel biologically-plausible solution to the credit assignment problem motivated by observations in the ventral visual pathway and trained deep neural networks. In both, representations of objects in the same category become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shanshan Qin , Nayantara Mudur , Cengiz Pehlevan

Models for image representation learning are typically designed for either recognition or generation. Various forms of contrastive learning help models learn to convert images to embeddings that are useful for classification, detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthew Gwilliam , Xiao Wang , Xuefeng Hu , Zhenheng Yang

We propose a self-supervised method to solve Pronoun Disambiguation and Winograd Schema Challenge problems. Our approach exploits the characteristic structure of training corpora related to so-called "trigger" words, which are responsible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Meta-learning enables learning systems to adapt quickly to new tasks, similar to humans. Different meta-learning approaches all work under/with the mini-batch episodic training framework. Such framework naturally gives the information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shiguang Wu , Yaqing Wang , Yatao Bian , Quanming Yao

Sentence classification is one of the basic tasks of natural language processing. Convolution neural network (CNN) has the ability to extract n-grams features through convolutional filters and capture local correlations between consecutive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shandong Yuan

We investigate a strategy for improving the efficiency of contrastive learning of visual representations by leveraging a small amount of supervised information during pre-training. We propose a semi-supervised loss, SuNCEt, based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Mahmoud Assran , Nicolas Ballas , Lluis Castrejon , Michael Rabbat

Contrastive self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach to unsupervised visual representation learning. In general, these methods learn global (image-level) representations that are invariant to different views (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Amjad Almahairi , Ryan Y. Benmalek , Florian Golemo , Aaron Courville

Hand and face play an important role in expressing sign language. Their features are usually especially leveraged to improve system performance. However, to effectively extract visual representations and capture trajectories for hands and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Lianyu Hu , Liqing Gao , Zekang liu , Wei Feng

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great success in computer vision, approaching human-level performance when trained for specific tasks via application-specific loss functions. In this paper, we propose a method for augmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Austin Stone , Huayan Wang , Michael Stark , Yi Liu , D. Scott Phoenix , Dileep George

In this paper, we propose a novel training procedure for the continual representation learning problem in which a neural network model is sequentially learned to alleviate catastrophic forgetting in visual search tasks. Our method, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tommaso Barletti , Niccolo' Biondi , Federico Pernici , Matteo Bruni , Alberto Del Bimbo

We introduce sub-sentence encoder, a contrastively-learned contextual embedding model for fine-grained semantic representation of text. In contrast to the standard practice with sentence embeddings, where the meaning of an entire sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Sihao Chen , Hongming Zhang , Tong Chen , Ben Zhou , Wenhao Yu , Dian Yu , Baolin Peng , Hongwei Wang , Dan Roth , Dong Yu