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Contrastive learning has shown impressive success in enhancing feature discriminability for various visual tasks in a self-supervised manner, but the standard contrastive paradigm (features+$\ell_{2}$ normalization) has limited benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Junjie Li , Yixin Zhang , Zilei Wang , Saihui Hou , Keyu Tu , Man Zhang

Making decent multi-lingual sentence representations is critical to achieve high performances in cross-lingual downstream tasks. In this work, we propose a novel method to align multi-lingual embeddings based on the similarity of sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Minsu Park , Seyeon Choi , Chanyeol Choi , Jun-Seong Kim , Jy-yong Sohn

Natural language inference (NLI) is an increasingly important task for natural language understanding, which requires one to infer the relationship between the sentence pair (premise and hypothesis). Many recent works have used contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Shu'ang Li , Xuming Hu , Li Lin , Lijie Wen

In recent years, self-supervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition has advanced with the development of contrastive learning methods. However, most of contrastive paradigms are inherently discriminative and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dang Dinh Nguyen , Decky Aspandi Latif , Titus Zaharia

Medical image classification is often challenging for two reasons: a lack of labelled examples due to expensive and time-consuming annotation protocols, and imbalanced class labels due to the relative scarcity of disease-positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Tri Huynh , Aiden Nibali , Zhen He

Contrastive learning has been applied to Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on sensor data owing to its ability to achieve performance comparable to supervised learning with a large amount of unlabeled data and a small amount of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jinqiang Wang , Tao Zhu , Liming Chen , Huansheng Ning , Yaping Wan

Contrastive learning has shown effectiveness in improving sequential recommendation models. However, existing methods still face challenges in generating high-quality contrastive pairs: they either rely on random perturbations that corrupt…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ziqiang Cui , Yunpeng Weng , Xing Tang , Xiaokun Zhang , Shiwei Li , Peiyang Liu , Bowei He , Dugang Liu , Weihong Luo , Xiuqiang He , Chen Ma

To address the problem of long-tail distribution for the large vocabulary object detection task, existing methods usually divide the whole categories into several groups and treat each group with different strategies. These methods bring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Tong Wang , Yousong Zhu , Chaoyang Zhao , Wei Zeng , Jinqiao Wang , Ming Tang

Recent advances in Behavior Cloning (BC) have led to strong performance in robotic manipulation, driven by expressive models, sequence modeling of actions, and large-scale demonstration data. However, BC faces significant challenges when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sung-Wook Lee , Xuhui Kang , Brandon Yang , Yen-Ling Kuo

In recent years, self-supervised contrastive learning has emerged as a distinguished paradigm in the artificial intelligence landscape. It facilitates unsupervised feature learning through contrastive delineations at the instance level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jiansong Zhang , Linlin Shen , Peizhong Liu

Continual Learning (CL) investigates how to train Deep Networks on a stream of tasks without incurring forgetting. CL settings proposed in literature assume that every incoming example is paired with ground-truth annotations. However, this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-30 Matteo Boschini , Pietro Buzzega , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Selective classification enables models to make predictions only when they are sufficiently confident, aiming to enhance safety and reliability, which is important in high-stakes scenarios. Previous methods mainly use deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yu-Chang Wu , Shen-Huan Lyu , Haopu Shang , Xiangyu Wang , Chao Qian

Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a powerful technique for representation learning, with or without label supervision. However, supervised CL is prone to collapsing representations of subclasses within a class by not capturing all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yihao Xue , Siddharth Joshi , Eric Gan , Pin-Yu Chen , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Personalized search plays a crucial role in improving user search experience owing to its ability to build user profiles based on historical behaviors. Previous studies have made great progress in extracting personal signals from the query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yujia Zhou , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Ji-Rong Wen

Most Neural Networks (NNs) for classification are trained using Cross-Entropy as a loss function. This approach requires the model to have an explicit classification layer. However, there exist alternative approaches, such as Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Leonardo Arrighi , Julia Eva Belloni , Aurélie Gallet , Ivan Gentile , Matteo Lippi , Marco Zullich

Traditional approaches to RL have focused on learning decision policies directly from episodic decisions, while slowly and implicitly learning the semantics of compositional representations needed for generalization. While some approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Chris Lengerich , Gabriel Synnaeve , Amy Zhang , Hugh Leather , Kurt Shuster , François Charton , Charysse Redwood

Self-supervised learning has recently shown great potential in vision tasks through contrastive learning, which aims to discriminate each image, or instance, in the dataset. However, such instance-level learning ignores the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Tsai-Shien Chen , Wei-Chih Hung , Hung-Yu Tseng , Shao-Yi Chien , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This paper presents simple and efficient methods to mitigate sampling bias in active learning while achieving state-of-the-art accuracy and model robustness. We introduce supervised contrastive active learning by leveraging the contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ranganath Krishnan , Alok Sinha , Nilesh Ahuja , Mahesh Subedar , Omesh Tickoo , Ravi Iyer

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning show that such algorithms learn visual representations that can be transferred better to unseen tasks than joint-training methods relying on task-specific supervision. In this paper, we found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hyuntak Cha , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has rapidly emerged as a transformative approach in computer vision, enabling the extraction of rich feature representations from vast amounts of unlabeled data and reducing reliance on costly manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki , Athanasios Gkelias
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