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Change captioning aims to describe the difference between a pair of similar images. Its key challenge is how to learn a stable difference representation under pseudo changes caused by viewpoint change. In this paper, we address this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Yunbin Tu , Liang Li , Li Su , Zheng-Jun Zha , Chenggang Yan , Qingming Huang

Machine unlearning aims to eliminate the influence of a subset of training samples (i.e., unlearning samples) from a trained model. Effectively and efficiently removing the unlearning samples without negatively impacting the overall model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Hong kyu Lee , Qiuchen Zhang , Carl Yang , Jian Lou , Li Xiong

The goal of a classification model is to assign the correct labels to data. In most cases, this data is not fully described by the given set of labels. Often a rich set of meaningful concepts exist in the domain that can much more precisely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Yoeri Poels , Vlado Menkovski

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have achieved great success when the amount of labeled data is limited. Within SSL, models learn robust feature representations by solving pretext tasks. One such pretext task is contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jamshid Hassanpour , Vinkle Srivastav , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Recent works in self-supervised learning have advanced the state-of-the-art by relying on the contrastive learning paradigm, which learns representations by pushing positive pairs, or similar examples from the same class, closer together…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Jeff Z. HaoChen , Colin Wei , Adrien Gaidon , Tengyu Ma

Although self-/un-supervised methods have led to rapid progress in visual representation learning, these methods generally treat objects and scenes using the same lens. In this paper, we focus on learning representations for objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Songwei Ge , Shlok Mishra , Simon Kornblith , Chun-Liang Li , David Jacobs

Neuron labeling assigns textual descriptions to internal units of deep networks. Existing approaches typically rely on highly activating examples, often yielding broad or misleading labels by focusing on dominant but incidental visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Oussama Bouanani , Jim Berend , Wojciech Samek , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Maximilian Dreyer

Learning representations unaffected by superficial characteristics is important to ensure that shifts in these characteristics at test time do not compromise downstream prediction performance. For instance, in healthcare applications, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Minghui Sun , Benjamin A. Goldstein , Matthew M. Engelhard

MoCo is effective for unsupervised image representation learning. In this paper, we propose VideoMoCo for unsupervised video representation learning. Given a video sequence as an input sample, we improve the temporal feature representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Tian Pan , Yibing Song , Tianyu Yang , Wenhao Jiang , Wei Liu

Approaching new data can be quite deterrent; you do not know how your categories of interest are realized in it, commonly, there is no labeled data at hand, and the performance of domain adaptation methods is unsatisfactory. Aiming to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Eyal Shnarch , Leshem Choshen , Guy Moshkowich , Noam Slonim , Ranit Aharonov

Learning self-supervised representations using reconstruction or contrastive losses improves performance and sample complexity of image-based and multimodal reinforcement learning (RL). Here, different self-supervised loss functions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Philipp Becker , Sebastian Mossburger , Fabian Otto , Gerhard Neumann

In this work, we aim to consider the application of contrastive learning in the scenario of the recommendation system adequately, making it more suitable for recommendation task. We propose a learning paradigm called supervised contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Chun Yang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a cornerstone in vision-language representation learning, powering diverse downstream tasks and serving as the default vision backbone in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chuan Qin , Constantin Venhoff , Sonia Joseph , Fanyi Xiao , Stefan Scherer

The dominant paradigm for learning video-text representations -- noise contrastive learning -- increases the similarity of the representations of pairs of samples that are known to be related, such as text and video from the same sample,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Mandela Patrick , Po-Yao Huang , Yuki Asano , Florian Metze , Alexander Hauptmann , João Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Interpreting the internal reasoning of vision-language models is essential for deploying AI in safety-critical domains. Concept-based explainability provides a human-aligned lens by representing a model's behavior through semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ehud Gordon , Meir Yossef Levi , Guy Gilboa

Unsupervised representation learning with contrastive learning achieved great success. This line of methods duplicate each training batch to construct contrastive pairs, making each training batch and its augmented version forwarded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Pengguang Chen , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Self-supervised representation learning has achieved impressive empirical success, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited. In this work, we provide a theoretical perspective by formulating self-supervised representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Byeongchan Lee

Understanding why a classification model prefers one class over another for an input instance is the challenge of contrastive explanation. This work implements concept-based contrastive explanations for image classification by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yuliia Kaidashova , Bettina Finzel , Ute Schmid

Contrastive representation learning has been outstandingly successful in practice. In this work, we identify two key properties related to the contrastive loss: (1) alignment (closeness) of features from positive pairs, and (2) uniformity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Tongzhou Wang , Phillip Isola

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models excel in zero-shot classification, yet face challenges in complex multi-object scenarios. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of CLIP's limitations in these contexts using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Reza Abbasi , Ali Nazari , Aminreza Sefid , Mohammadali Banayeeanzade , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah