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Graph representation learning has emerged as a cornerstone for tasks like node classification and link prediction, yet prevailing self-supervised learning (SSL) methods face challenges such as computational inefficiency, reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Srinitish Srinivasan , Omkumar CU

Recent advances in image-level self-supervised learning (SSL) have made significant progress, yet learning dense representations for patches remains challenging. Mainstream methods encounter an over-dispersion phenomenon that patches from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Peisong Wen , Qianqian Xu , Siran Dai , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful method in deep learning, excelling at learning effective representations through contrasting samples from different distributions. However, dimensional collapse, where embeddings converge into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Huanran Li , Manh Nguyen , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Deep supervised learning algorithms typically require a large volume of labeled data to achieve satisfactory performance. However, the process of collecting and labeling such data can be expensive and time-consuming. Self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jie Gui , Tuo Chen , Jing Zhang , Qiong Cao , Zhenan Sun , Hao Luo , Dacheng Tao

Although supervised learning has been highly successful in improving the state-of-the-art in the domain of image-based computer vision in the past, the margin of improvement has diminished significantly in recent years, indicating that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Utku Ozbulak , Hyun Jung Lee , Beril Boga , Esla Timothy Anzaku , Homin Park , Arnout Van Messem , Wesley De Neve , Joris Vankerschaver

Contrastive learning is among the most successful methods for visual representation learning, and its performance can be further improved by jointly performing clustering on the learned representations. However, existing methods for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , JaeEun Nam , Emilio Dorigatti , Bernd Bischl , Shekoofeh Azizi , Mina Rezaei

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently achieved tremendous empirical advancements in learning image representation. However, our understanding of the principle behind learning such a representation is still limited. This work shows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yubei Chen , Adrien Bardes , Zengyi Li , Yann LeCun

We investigate whether self-supervised learning (SSL) can improve online reinforcement learning (RL) from pixels. We extend the contrastive reinforcement learning framework (e.g., CURL) that jointly optimizes SSL and RL losses and conduct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xiang Li , Jinghuan Shang , Srijan Das , Michael S. Ryoo

Nowadays, supervised deep learning techniques yield the best state-of-the-art prediction performances for a wide variety of computer vision tasks. However, such supervised techniques generally require a large amount of manually labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Florent Chiaroni , Mohamed-Cherif Rahal , Nicolas Hueber , Frederic Dufaux

Joint-embedding self-supervised learning (SSL), the key paradigm for unsupervised representation learning from visual data, learns from invariances between semantically-related data pairs. We study the one-to-many mapping problem in SSL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yipeng Zhang , Hafez Ghaemi , Jungyoon Lee , Shahab Bakhtiari , Eilif B. Muller , Laurent Charlin

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) under class distribution mismatch aims to tackle a challenging problem wherein unlabeled data contain lots of unknown categories unseen in the labeled ones. In such mismatch scenarios, traditional SSL suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Pan Du , Suyun Zhao , Zisen Sheng , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful method in deep learning, excelling at learning effective representations through contrasting samples from different distributions. However, neural collapse, where embeddings converge into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Huanran Li , Manh Nguyen , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful strategy for representation learning under limited annotation regimes, yet its effectiveness remains highly sensitive to many factors, especially the nature of the target task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jorge Quesada , Ghassan AlRegib

With the progress of sensor technology in wearables, the collection and analysis of PPG signals are gaining more interest. Using Machine Learning, the cardiac rhythm corresponding to PPG signals can be used to predict different tasks such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ramin Ghorbani , Marcel J. T. Reinders , David M. J. Tax

In Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), models are typically pretrained, fine-tuned, and evaluated on the same domains. However, they tend to perform poorly when evaluated on unseen domains, a challenge that Unsupervised Domain Generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Marin Scalbert , Maria Vakalopoulou , Florent Couzinié-Devy

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

Non-contrastive SSL methods like BYOL and SimSiam rely on asymmetric predictor networks to avoid representational collapse without negative samples. Yet, how predictor networks facilitate stable learning is not fully understood. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Manu Srinath Halvagal , Axel Laborieux , Friedemann Zenke

Enhancing the generalization capability of deep neural networks to unseen domains is crucial for safety-critical applications in the real world such as autonomous driving. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Sungha Choi , Sanghun Jung , Huiwon Yun , Joanne Kim , Seungryong Kim , Jaegul Choo

In the era of transformer models, masked self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a foundational training paradigm. A defining feature of masked SSL is that training aggregates predictions across many masking patterns, giving rise to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Arie Wortsman Zurich , Federica Gerace , Bruno Loureiro , Yue M. Lu

Decentralized learning has been advocated and widely deployed to make efficient use of distributed datasets, with an extensive focus on supervised learning (SL) problems. Unfortunately, the majority of real-world data are unlabeled and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Lirui Wang , Kaiqing Zhang , Yunzhu Li , Yonglong Tian , Russ Tedrake