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This work presents a novel objective function for the unsupervised training of neural network sentence encoders. It exploits signals from paragraph-level discourse coherence to train these models to understand text. Our objective is purely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Yacine Jernite , Samuel R. Bowman , David Sontag

Establishing dense correspondences across image pairs is essential for tasks such as shape reconstruction and robot manipulation. In the challenging setting of matching across different categories, the function of an object, i.e., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Stefan Stojanov , Linan Zhao , Yunzhi Zhang , Daniel L. K. Yamins , Jiajun Wu

Word alignment is an important natural language processing task that indicates the correspondence between natural languages. Recently, unsupervised learning of log-linear models for word alignment has received considerable attention as it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Yang Liu , Maosong Sun

The vast majority of evaluation metrics for machine translation are supervised, i.e., (i) are trained on human scores, (ii) assume the existence of reference translations, or (iii) leverage parallel data. This hinders their applicability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jonas Belouadi , Steffen Eger

There exist many high-dimensional data in real-world applications such as biology, computer vision, and social networks. Feature selection approaches are devised to confront with high-dimensional data challenges with the aim of efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohsen Ghassemi Parsa , Hadi Zare , Mehdi Ghatee

Self-supervision can dramatically cut back the amount of manually-labelled data required to train deep neural networks. While self-supervision has usually been considered for tasks such as image classification, in this paper we aim at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 David Novotny , Samuel Albanie , Diane Larlus , Andrea Vedaldi

Recently, contrastive learning has largely advanced the progress of unsupervised visual representation learning. Pre-trained on ImageNet, some self-supervised algorithms reported higher transfer learning performance compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Longhui Wei , Lingxi Xie , Jianzhong He , Jianlong Chang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Unsupervised sentence embedding aims to obtain the most appropriate embedding for a sentence to reflect its semantic. Contrastive learning has been attracting developing attention. For a sentence, current models utilize diverse data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Hao Wang , Yangguang Li , Zhen Huang , Yong Dou , Lingpeng Kong , Jing Shao

Deep learning-based recommender systems have achieved remarkable success in recent years. However, these methods usually heavily rely on labeled data (i.e., user-item interactions), suffering from problems such as data sparsity and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mengyuan Jing , Yanmin Zhu , Tianzi Zang , Ke Wang

We propose Probabilistic Warp Consistency, a weakly-supervised learning objective for semantic matching. Our approach directly supervises the dense matching scores predicted by the network, encoded as a conditional probability distribution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Prune Truong , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

Unsupervised contrastive learning has gained increasing attention in the latest research and has proven to be a powerful method for learning representations from unlabeled data. However, little theoretical analysis was known for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zixin Wen

We propose a novel unsupervised learning approach to 3D shape correspondence that builds a multiscale matching pipeline into a deep neural network. This approach is based on smooth shells, the current state-of-the-art axiomatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Marvin Eisenberger , Aysim Toker , Laura Leal-Taixé , Daniel Cremers

Semi-supervised learning is a setting in which one has labeled and unlabeled data available. In this survey we explore different types of theoretical results when one uses unlabeled data in classification and regression tasks. Most methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Alexander Mey , Marco Loog

Unsupervised learning is the most challenging problem in machine learning and especially in deep learning. Among many scenarios, we study an unsupervised learning problem of high economic value --- learning to predict without costly pairing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Jianshu Chen , Po-Sen Huang , Xiaodong He , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

This paper proposes a novel paradigm for the unsupervised learning of object landmark detectors. Contrary to existing methods that build on auxiliary tasks such as image generation or equivariance, we propose a self-training approach where,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dimitrios Mallis , Enrique Sanchez , Matt Bell , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Visual semantic correspondence is an important topic in computer vision and could help machine understand objects in our daily life. However, most previous methods directly train on correspondences in 2D images, which is end-to-end but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yang You , Chengkun Li , Yujing Lou , Zhoujun Cheng , Lizhuang Ma , Cewu Lu , Weiming Wang

Semantic correspondence aims to identify semantically meaningful relationships between different images and is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. It forms the foundation for numerous tasks such as 3D reconstruction, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Wenyue Chong

Finding correspondences between semantically similar points across images and object instances is one of the everlasting challenges in computer vision. While large pre-trained vision models have recently been demonstrated as effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Olaf Dünkel , Thomas Wimmer , Christian Theobalt , Christian Rupprecht , Adam Kortylewski

Cross-lingual alignment of word embeddings play an important role in knowledge transfer across languages, for improving machine translation and other multi-lingual applications. Current unsupervised approaches rely on similarities in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Silviu Oprea , Sourav Dutta , Haytham Assem

In self-supervised learning, a system is tasked with achieving a surrogate objective by defining alternative targets on a set of unlabeled data. The aim is to build useful representations that can be used in downstream tasks, without costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Massimiliano Patacchiola , Amos Storkey