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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

Continuous unsupervised representation learning (CURL) research has greatly benefited from improvements in self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques. As a result, existing CURL methods using SSL can learn high-quality representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Alex Gomez-Villa , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Kai Wang , Joost van de Weijer

This paper presents a whitening-based contrastive learning method for sentence embedding learning (WhitenedCSE), which combines contrastive learning with a novel shuffled group whitening. Generally, contrastive learning pulls distortions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wenjie Zhuo , Yifan Sun , Xiaohan Wang , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Contrastive Learning (CL) has emerged as a dominant technique for unsupervised representation learning which embeds augmented versions of the anchor close to each other (positive samples) and pushes the embeddings of other samples…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Ge Wang , Jintao Chen , Stan Z. Li

Self-supervised representation learning has made significant leaps fueled by progress in contrastive learning, which seeks to learn transformations that embed positive input pairs nearby, while pushing negative pairs far apart. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Tri Huynh , Simon Kornblith , Matthew R. Walter , Michael Maire , Maryam Khademi

Contrastive learning is a major studied topic in metric learning. However, sampling effective contrastive pairs remains a challenge due to factors such as limited batch size, imbalanced data distribution, and the risk of overfitting. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Bolun Cai , Pengfei Xiong , Shangxuan Tian

In Continual learning (CL) balancing effective adaptation while combating catastrophic forgetting is a central challenge. Many of the recent best-performing methods utilize various forms of prior task data, e.g. a replay buffer, to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Nader Asadi , MohammadReza Davari , Sudhir Mudur , Rahaf Aljundi , Eugene Belilovsky

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

Graph contrastive learning algorithms have demonstrated remarkable success in various applications such as node classification, link prediction, and graph clustering. However, in unsupervised graph contrastive learning, some contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Kaili Ma , Haochen Yang , Han Yang , Yongqiang Chen , James Cheng

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) surmises that inputs and pairwise positive relationships are enough to learn meaningful representations. Although SSL has recently reached a milestone: outperforming supervised methods in many modalities\dots…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Randall Balestriero , Yann LeCun

The contextual information is critical for various computer vision tasks, previous works commonly design plug-and-play modules and structural losses to effectively extract and aggregate the global context. These methods utilize fine-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jing Wang , Jiangyun Li , Wei Li , Lingfei Xuan , Tianxiang Zhang , Wenxuan Wang

Unsupervised cell type identification is crucial for uncovering and characterizing heterogeneous populations in single cell omics studies. Although a range of clustering methods have been developed, most focus exclusively on intrinsic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Liang Peng , Haopeng Liu , Yixuan Ye , Cheng Liu , Wenjun Shen , Si Wu , Hau-San Wong

Contrastive learning (CL) has recently been applied to adversarial learning tasks. Such practice considers adversarial samples as additional positive views of an instance, and by maximizing their agreements with each other, yields better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Qiying Yu , Jieming Lou , Xianyuan Zhan , Qizhang Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Yang Liu , Jingjing Liu

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

Tremendous breakthroughs have been developed in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (S4) through contrastive learning. However, due to limited annotations, the guidance on unlabeled images is generated by the model itself, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Haoyu Xie , Changqi Wang , Jian Zhao , Yang Liu , Jun Dan , Chong Fu , Baigui Sun

Anomaly detection in medical images is challenging due to limited annotations and a domain gap compared to natural images. Existing reconstruction methods often rely on frozen pre-trained encoders, which limits adaptation to domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Luhu Li , Bowen Lin , Mukhtiar Khan , Shujun Fu

Contrastive learning has gained significant attention in short text clustering, yet it has an inherent drawback of mistakenly identifying samples from the same category as negatives and then separating them in the feature space (false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhihao Yao

To extract robust deep representations from long sequential modeling of speech data, we propose a self-supervised learning approach, namely Contrastive Separative Coding (CSC). Our key finding is to learn such representations by separating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Jun Wang , Max W. Y. Lam , Dan Su , Dong Yu

Recent advances in contrastive representation learning over paired image-text data have led to models such as CLIP that achieve state-of-the-art performance for zero-shot classification and distributional robustness. Such models typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Shashank Goel , Hritik Bansal , Sumit Bhatia , Ryan A. Rossi , Vishwa Vinay , Aditya Grover

Contrastive learning is commonly used as a method of self-supervised learning with the "anchor" and "positive" being two random augmentations of a given input image, and the "negative" is the set of all other images. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Rishab Balasubramanian , Kunal Rathore