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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks such as image classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can cause incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Suklav Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Arijit Sur

Contrastive learning has become an important tool in learning representations from unlabeled data mainly relying on the idea of minimizing distance between positive data pairs, e.g., views from the same images, and maximizing distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Nina Shvetsova , Felix Petersen , Anna Kukleva , Bernt Schiele , Hilde Kuehne

Contrastive learning has shown remarkable results in recent self-supervised approaches for visual representation. By learning to contrast positive pairs' representation from the corresponding negatives pairs, one can train good visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Sungnyun Kim , Gihun Lee , Sangmin Bae , Se-Young Yun

Contrastive pretraining can substantially increase model generalisation and downstream performance. However, the quality of the learned representations is highly dependent on the data augmentation strategy applied to generate positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mélanie Roschewitz , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Tian Xia , Galvin Khara , Ben Glocker

While text-to-image generative models can synthesize diverse and faithful content, subject variation across multiple generations limits their application to long-form content generation. Existing approaches require time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Lee Hsin-Ying , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Domain generalisation aims to promote the learning of domain-invariant features while suppressing domain-specific features, so that a model can generalise better to previously unseen target domains. An approach to domain generalisation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Karthik Seemakurthy , Erchan Aptoula , Charles Fox , Petra Bosilj

Recent self-supervised contrastive methods have been able to produce impressive transferable visual representations by learning to be invariant to different data augmentations. However, these methods implicitly assume a particular set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Tete Xiao , Xiaolong Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Trevor Darrell

For medical image segmentation, contrastive learning is the dominant practice to improve the quality of visual representations by contrasting semantically similar and dissimilar pairs of samples. This is enabled by the observation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Chenyu You , Weicheng Dai , Yifei Min , Fenglin Liu , David A. Clifton , S Kevin Zhou , Lawrence Hamilton Staib , James S Duncan

A data augmentation module is utilized in contrastive learning to transform the given data example into two views, which is considered essential and irreplaceable. However, the predetermined composition of multiple data augmentations brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Junbo Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

Despite recent advancements in text-to-image models, achieving semantically accurate images in text-to-image diffusion models is a persistent challenge. While existing initial latent optimization methods have demonstrated impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Aravindan Sundaram , Ujjayan Pal , Abhimanyu Chauhan , Aishwarya Agarwal , Srikrishna Karanam

Graph neural network(GNN) has been a powerful approach in collaborative filtering(CF) due to its ability to model high-order user-item relationships. Recently, to alleviate the data sparsity and enhance representation learning, many efforts…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bowen Zheng , Junjie Zhang , Hongyu Lu , Yu Chen , Ming Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

The deep neural networks (DNNs) have freed the synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) from expertise-based feature designing and demonstrated superiority over conventional solutions. There has been shown the unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Bowen Peng , Jianyue Xie , Bo Peng , Li Liu

Deep learning models for semantic segmentation often experience performance degradation when deployed to unseen target domains unidentified during the training phase. This is mainly due to variations in image texture (\ie style) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Woo-Jin Ahn , Geun-Yeong Yang , Hyun-Duck Choi , Myo-Taeg Lim

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful framework for learning generalizable representations, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited, particularly under imbalanced data distributions that are prevalent in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Haixu Liao , Yating Zhou , Songyang Zhang , Meng Wang , Shuai Zhang

Contrastive approaches to representation learning have recently shown great promise. In contrast to generative approaches, these contrastive models learn a deterministic encoder with no notion of uncertainty or confidence. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Mike Wu , Noah Goodman

Representation learning is a fundamental aspect of modern artificial intelligence, driving substantial improvements across diverse applications. While selfsupervised contrastive learning has led to significant advancements in fields like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Suiyao Chen , Jing Wu , Yunxiao Wang , Cheng Ji , Tianpei Xie , Daniel Cociorva , Michael Sharps , Cecile Levasseur , Hakan Brunzell

Many recent approaches in contrastive learning have worked to close the gap between pretraining on iconic images like ImageNet and pretraining on complex scenes like COCO. This gap exists largely because commonly used random crop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Renhao Wang , Hang Zhao , Yang Gao

With the wide proliferation of Deep Neural Networks in high-stake applications, there is a growing demand for explainability behind their decision-making process. Concept learning models attempt to learn high-level 'concepts' - abstract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Aidong Zhang

Weak-to-strong generalization provides a promising paradigm for scaling large language models (LLMs) by training stronger models on samples from aligned weaker ones, without requiring human feedback or explicit reward modeling. However, its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Houcheng Jiang , Junfeng Fang , Jiaxin Wu , Tianyu Zhang , Chen Gao , Yong Li , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Yang Deng

Traditional domain generalization methods often rely on domain alignment to reduce inter-domain distribution differences and learn domain-invariant representations. However, domain shifts are inherently difficult to eliminate, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuheng Xu , Taiping Zhang