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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Lianlei Shan , Wenzhang Zhou , Wei Li , Xingyu Ding

The prompt has become an effective linguistic tool for utilizing pre-trained language models. However, in few-shot scenarios, subtle changes in the prompt design always make the result widely different, and the prompt learning methods also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Jinta Weng , Yifan Deng , d Donghao Li , Hao You , Yue Hu , Heyan Huang

Few-shot learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training models with limited labeled data, addressing challenges in scenarios where large-scale annotation is impractical. While extensive research has been conducted in the image…

Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image and text retrieval. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) trains two neural networks in contrastive manner to align their image and text embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kwun Ho Ngan , Saman Sadeghi Afgeh , Joe Townsend , Artur d'Avila Garcez

How to sample high quality negative instances from unlabeled data, i.e., negative sampling, is important for training implicit collaborative filtering and contrastive learning models. Although previous studies have proposed some approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Bin Liu , Bang Wang

This paper proposes to use similarities of audio captions for estimating audio-caption relevances to be used for training text-based audio retrieval systems. Current audio-caption datasets (e.g., Clotho) contain audio samples paired with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Huang Xie , Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

Matching model is essential for Image-Text Retrieval framework. Existing research usually train the model with a triplet loss and explore various strategy to retrieve hard negative sentences in the dataset. We argue that current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Zhihao Fan , Zhongyu Wei , Zejun Li , Siyuan Wang , Jianqing Fan

Recommenders built upon implicit collaborative filtering are typically trained to distinguish between users' positive and negative preferences. When direct observations of the latter are unavailable, negative training data are constructed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yueqing Xuan , Kacper Sokol , Mark Sanderson , Jeffrey Chan

Negative sampling is significant for training sequential recommendation models under implicit feedback. The predominant strategy, self-guided hard negative sampling, selects negatives based on the model's current state but suffers from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yuanzi Li , Lingjie Wang , Jingyu Zhao , Zihang Tian , Yuhan Wang , Lei Wang , Xu Chen

In this paper, we present a framework for contrastive learning for audio representations, in a self supervised frame work without access to any ground truth labels. The core idea in self supervised contrastive learning is to map an audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Prateek Verma , Julius Smith

Text embedding models play a crucial role in natural language processing, particularly in information retrieval, and their importance is further highlighted with the recent utilization of RAG (Retrieval- Augmented Generation). This study…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jeongsu Yu

In this paper, we propose the CodeRetriever model, which learns the function-level code semantic representations through large-scale code-text contrastive pre-training. We adopt two contrastive learning schemes in CodeRetriever: unimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xiaonan Li , Yeyun Gong , Yelong Shen , Xipeng Qiu , Hang Zhang , Bolun Yao , Weizhen Qi , Daxin Jiang , Weizhu Chen , Nan Duan

This paper proposes a cold start recommendation model that integrates contrastive learning, aiming to solve the problem of performance degradation of recommendation systems in cold start scenarios due to the scarcity of user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jiacheng Hu , Tai An , Zidong Yu , Junliang Du , Yuanshuai Luo

Recent empirical studies show that adversarial topic models (ATM) can successfully capture semantic patterns of the document by differentiating a document with another dissimilar sample. However, utilizing that discriminative-generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Thong Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu

Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method for images and videos. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault

In the field of multimodal fact checking, the accuracy of retrieving evidence from different modalities has a significant impact on the downstream claim verification process. Existing general multimodal retrieval methods are often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhongtian Hua , Yi Luo , Meijia Yu , Yingjie Han

Deep neural networks trained with standard cross-entropy loss memorize noisy labels, which degrades their performance. Most research to mitigate this memorization proposes new robust classification loss functions. Conversely, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) has attracted increasing attention recently. With a large amount of image-text pairs, VLP models trained with contrastive loss have achieved impressive performance in various tasks, especially the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shipeng Yan , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Jianhua Han , Tinne Tuytelaars , Zhenguo Li , Xuming He

Unpaired image-to-image translation aims to find a mapping between the source domain and the target domain. To alleviate the problem of the lack of supervised labels for the source images, cycle-consistency based methods have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Yongyi Lu , Guangping Li , Yukai Shi

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