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Self-supervised learning (SSL) is recognized as an essential tool for building foundation models for Artificial Intelligence applications. The advances in SSL have been made thanks to vigorous arguments about the principles of SSL and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Josef Kittler , Sara Atito , Muhammad Awais

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated its effectiveness in learning representations through comparison methods that align with human intuition. However, mainstream SSL methods heavily rely on high body datasets with single label,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiale Chen

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved tremendous success in learning image representation. Despite the empirical success, most self-supervised learning methods are rather "inefficient" learners, typically taking hundreds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shengbang Tong , Yubei Chen , Yi Ma , Yann Lecun

We propose a novel semi-supervised learning (SSL) method that adopts selective training with pseudo labels. In our method, we generate hard pseudo-labels and also estimate their confidence, which represents how likely each pseudo-label is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Masato Ishii

We introduce S$^2$VS, a video similarity learning approach with self-supervision. Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is typically used to train deep models on a proxy task so as to have strong transferability on target tasks after fine-tuning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Giorgos Tolias , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Ioannis Patras , Symeon Papadopoulos

Network traffic classification (NTC) is vital for efficient network management, security, and performance optimization, particularly with 5G/6G technologies. Traditional methods, such as deep packet inspection (DPI) and port-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ehsan Eslami , Walaa Hamouda

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a class of supervised learning tasks and techniques that also exploits the unlabeled data for training. SSL significantly reduces labeling related costs and is able to handle large data sets. The primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Eftychios Protopapadakis

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods aim to exploit the abundance of unlabelled data for machine learning (ML), however the underlying principles are often method-specific. An SSL framework derived from biological first principles of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Franz Scherr , Qinghai Guo , Timoleon Moraitis

Text Recognition (TR) refers to the research area that focuses on retrieving textual information from images, a topic that has seen significant advancements in the last decade due to the use of Deep Neural Networks (DNN). However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Carlos Penarrubia , Jose J. Valero-Mas , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

A novel semi-supervised learning technique is introduced based on a simple iterative learning cycle together with learned thresholding techniques and an ensemble decision support system. State-of-the-art model performance and increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Robert Dupre , Jiri Fajtl , Vasileios Argyriou , Paolo Remagnin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful technique for learning rich representations from unlabeled data. The data representations are able to capture many underlying attributes of data, and be useful in downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Weicheng Zhu , Sheng Liu , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Narges Razavian

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

Recently, self-supervised learning methods like MoCo, SimCLR, BYOL and SwAV have reduced the gap with supervised methods. These results have been achieved in a control environment, that is the highly curated ImageNet dataset. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Priya Goyal , Mathilde Caron , Benjamin Lefaudeux , Min Xu , Pengchao Wang , Vivek Pai , Mannat Singh , Vitaliy Liptchinsky , Ishan Misra , Armand Joulin , Piotr Bojanowski

With the success of self-supervised learning (SSL), it has become a mainstream paradigm to fine-tune from self-supervised pretrained models to boost the performance on downstream tasks. However, we find that current SSL models suffer severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yun-Hao Cao , Peiqin Sun , Yechang Huang , Jianxin Wu , Shuchang Zhou

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven to be a powerful approach for extracting biologically meaningful representations from single-cell data. To advance our understanding of SSL methods applied to single-cell data, we present…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-13 Olga Ovcharenko , Florian Barkmann , Philip Toma , Imant Daunhawer , Julia Vogt , Sebastian Schelter , Valentina Boeva

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods harness the concept of semantic invariance by utilizing data augmentation strategies to produce similar representations for different deformations of the same input. Essentially, the model captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Huijie Guo , Ying Ba , Jie Hu , Lingyu Si , Wenwen Qiang , Lei Shi

Self supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning paradigm where models learn to understand the underlying structure of data without explicit supervision from labeled samples. The acquired representations from SSL have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yunshan Duan , Sinead Williamson

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have brought tremendous success across many tasks and domains. It has been argued that these successes can be attributed to a link between SSL and identifiable representation learning: Temporal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Rodrigo González Laiz , Tobias Schmidt , Steffen Schneider

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has been shown to learn useful and information-preserving representations. Neural Networks (NNs) are widely applied, yet their weight space is still not fully understood. Therefore, we propose to use SSL to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Konstantin Schürholt , Dimche Kostadinov , Damian Borth

This work tackles the problem of semi-supervised learning of image classifiers. Our main insight is that the field of semi-supervised learning can benefit from the quickly advancing field of self-supervised visual representation learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Xiaohua Zhai , Avital Oliver , Alexander Kolesnikov , Lucas Beyer