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Knowledge distillation is a popular machine learning technique that aims to transfer knowledge from a large 'teacher' network to a smaller 'student' network and improve the student's performance by training it to emulate the teacher. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Sushil Thapa

Sewerage infrastructure is among the most expensive modern investments requiring time-intensive manual inspections by qualified personnel. Our study addresses the need for automated solutions without relying on large amounts of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Daniel Otero , Rafael Mateus

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted considerable attention for their event-driven, low-power characteristics and high biological interpretability. Inspired by knowledge distillation (KD), recent research has improved the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Lin Zuo , Yongqi Ding , Mengmeng Jing , Kunshan Yang , Yunqian Yu

A number of different architectures and loss functions have been applied to the problem of self-supervised learning (SSL), with the goal of developing embeddings that provide the best possible pre-training for as-yet-unknown, lightly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Deep Chakraborty , Yann LeCun , Tim G. J. Rudner , Erik Learned-Miller

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

As a new paradigm in machine learning, self-supervised learning (SSL) is capable of learning high-quality representations of complex data without relying on labels. In addition to eliminating the need for labeled data, research has found…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Changjiang Li , Ren Pang , Zhaohan Xi , Tianyu Du , Shouling Ji , Yuan Yao , Ting Wang

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods operate on unlabeled data to learn robust representations useful for downstream tasks. Most SSL methods rely on augmentations obtained by transforming the 2D image pixel map. These augmentations ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Sumukh Aithal , Anirudh Goyal , Alex Lamb , Yoshua Bengio , Michael Mozer

The cost of head pose labeling is the main challenge of improving the fine-grained Head Pose Estimation (HPE). Although Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) can be a solution to the lack of huge amounts of labeled data, its efficacy for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mahdi Pourmirzaei , Farzaneh Esmaili , Ebrahim Mousavi , Sasan Karamizadeh , Seyedehsamaneh Shojaeilangari

Deep learning has achieved remarkable progress for visual recognition on large-scale balanced datasets but still performs poorly on real-world long-tailed data. Previous methods often adopt class re-balanced training strategies to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Tianhao Li , Limin Wang , Gangshan Wu

State-of-the-art semi-supervised learning (SSL) approaches rely on highly confident predictions to serve as pseudo-labels that guide the training on unlabeled samples. An inherent drawback of this strategy stems from the quality of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shambhavi Mishra , Balamurali Murugesan , Ismail Ben Ayed , Marco Pedersoli , Jose Dolz

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become the de facto training paradigm of large models, where pre-training is followed by supervised fine-tuning using domain-specific data and labels. Despite demonstrating comparable performance with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Sofia Yfantidou , Dimitris Spathis , Marios Constantinides , Athena Vakali , Daniele Quercia , Fahim Kawsar

A major limitation in applying deep learning to artificial intelligence (AI) systems is the scarcity of high-quality curated datasets. We investigate strong augmentation based self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques to address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 John D. Miller , Vignesh A. Arasu , Albert X. Pu , Laurie R. Margolies , Weiva Sieh , Li Shen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm in medical imaging, addressing the chronic challenge of limited labeled data in healthcare settings. While SSL has shown impressive results, existing studies in the medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Valay Bundele , Karahan Sarıtaş , Bora Kargi , Oğuz Ata Çal , Kıvanç Tezören , Zohreh Ghaderi , Hendrik Lensch

This paper is concerned with self-supervised learning for small models. The problem is motivated by our empirical studies that while the widely used contrastive self-supervised learning method has shown great progress on large model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Zhiyuan Fang , Jianfeng Wang , Lijuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Yezhou Yang , Zicheng Liu

As the development of neural networks, more and more deep neural networks are adopted in various tasks, such as image classification. However, as the huge computational overhead, these networks could not be applied on mobile devices or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yunteng Luan , Hanyu Zhao , Zhi Yang , Yafei Dai

The success of self-supervised learning (SSL) in vision and NLP has motivated its rapid adoption for time series. However, research has focused primarily on Generative paradigms and forecasting tasks, leaving the broader utility of learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Noam Major , Kathy Razmadze , Yoli Shavit

The need for abundant labelled data in supervised Adversarial Training (AT) has prompted the use of Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) techniques with AT. However, the direct application of existing SSL methods to adversarial training has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sravanti Addepalli , Priyam Dey , R. Venkatesh Babu

Recently, a few self-supervised representation learning (SSL) methods have outperformed the ImageNet classification pre-training for vision tasks such as object detection. However, its effects on 3D human body pose and shape estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hongsuk Choi , Hyeongjin Nam , Taeryung Lee , Gyeongsik Moon , Kyoung Mu Lee

Traditionally, Knowledge Distillation (KD) is used for model compression, often leading to suboptimal performance. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of combining KD loss with alternative pruning techniques, including Low-Rank…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Shiva Kumar C , Jitendra Kumar Dhiman , Nagaraj Adiga , Shatrughan Singh

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) have largely closed the gap with supervised ImageNet pretraining. Despite their success these methods have been primarily applied to unlabeled ImageNet images, and show marginal gains when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Karan Desai , Justin Johnson , Nikhil Naik