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Learning an effective representation in multi-label text classification (MLTC) is a significant challenge in NLP. This challenge arises from the inherent complexity of the task, which is shaped by two key factors: the intricate connections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Alexandre Audibert , Aurélien Gauffre , Massih-Reza Amini

Learning discriminative image representations plays a vital role in long-tailed image classification because it can ease the classifier learning in imbalanced cases. Given the promising performance contrastive learning has shown recently in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Peng Wang , Kai Han , Xiu-Shen Wei , Lei Zhang , Lei Wang

Supervised deep learning-based methods yield accurate results for medical image segmentation. However, they require large labeled datasets for this, and obtaining them is a laborious task that requires clinical expertise.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

Learning good representations involves capturing the diverse ways in which data samples relate. Contrastive loss - an objective matching related samples - underlies methods from self-supervised to multimodal learning. Contrastive losses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Vlad Sobal , Mark Ibrahim , Randall Balestriero , Vivien Cabannes , Diane Bouchacourt , Pietro Astolfi , Kyunghyun Cho , Yann LeCun

This paper presents a novel positive and negative set selection strategy for contrastive learning of medical images based on labels that can be extracted from clinical data. In the medical field, there exists a variety of labels for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Kiran Kokilepersaud , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

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

Recent contrastive learning methods have shown to be effective in various tasks, learning generalizable representations invariant to data augmentation thereby leading to state of the art performances. Regarding the multifaceted nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 MinGyu Choi , Wonseok Shin , Yijingxiu Lu , Sun Kim

Visual contrastive learning aims to learn representations by contrasting similar (positive) and dissimilar (negative) pairs of data samples. The design of these pairs significantly impacts representation quality, training efficiency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Shasvat Desai , Debasmita Ghose , Deep Chakraborty

Contrastive learning, which aims at minimizing the distance between positive pairs while maximizing that of negative ones, has been widely and successfully applied in unsupervised feature learning, where the design of positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Rui Zhu , Bingchen Zhao , Jingen Liu , Zhenglong Sun , Chang Wen Chen

Contrastive learning has gained popularity and pushes state-of-the-art performance across numerous large-scale benchmarks. In contrastive learning, the contrastive loss function plays a pivotal role in discerning similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haojin Deng , Yimin Yang

We propose ADCLR: A ccurate and D ense Contrastive Representation Learning, a novel self-supervised learning framework for learning accurate and dense vision representation. To extract spatial-sensitive information, ADCLR introduces query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Shaofeng Zhang , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Junchi Yan

Contrastive learning allows us to flexibly define powerful losses by contrasting positive pairs from sets of negative samples. Recently, the principle has also been used to learn cross-modal embeddings for video and text, yet without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Yi Zhu , Peter Gehler , Thomas Brox

Exemplar-based image translation establishes dense correspondences between a conditional input and an exemplar (from two different domains) for leveraging detailed exemplar styles to achieve realistic image translation. Existing work builds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fangneng Zhan , Yingchen Yu , Rongliang Wu , Jiahui Zhang , Shijian Lu , Changgong Zhang

How can neural networks trained by contrastive learning extract features from the unlabeled data? Why does contrastive learning usually need much stronger data augmentations than supervised learning to ensure good representations? These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zixin Wen , Yuanzhi Li

Contrastive self-supervised learning has attracted significant research attention recently. It learns effective visual representations from unlabeled data by embedding augmented views of the same image close to each other while pushing away…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yichen Zhang , Yifang Yin , Ying Zhang , Roger Zimmermann

Contrastive learning -- a modern approach to extract useful representations from unlabeled data by training models to distinguish similar samples from dissimilar ones -- has driven significant progress in foundation models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Licong Lin , Song Mei

Time series self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to exploit unlabeled data for pre-training to mitigate the reliance on labels. Despite the great success in recent years, there is limited discussion on the potential noise in the time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Shuang Zhou , Daochen Zha , Xiao Shen , Xiao Huang , Rui Zhang , Fu-Lai Chung

Recently, contrastive learning (CL), a technique most prominently used in natural language and computer vision, has been used to train informative representation spaces for galaxy spectra and images in a self-supervised manner. Following…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Tobias Buck , Christian Schwarz

For a widely-studied data model and general loss and sample-hardening functions we prove that the losses of Supervised Contrastive Learning (SCL), Hard-SCL (HSCL), and Unsupervised Contrastive Learning (UCL) are minimized by representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ruijie Jiang , Thuan Nguyen , Shuchin Aeron , Prakash Ishwar

Medical image segmentation is a critical yet challenging task, primarily due to the difficulty of obtaining extensive datasets of high-quality, expert-annotated images. Contrastive learning presents a potential but still problematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuang Zeng , Lei Zhu , Xinliang Zhang , Hangzhou He , Yanye Lu