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Contrastive representation learning has been outstandingly successful in practice. In this work, we identify two key properties related to the contrastive loss: (1) alignment (closeness) of features from positive pairs, and (2) uniformity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Tongzhou Wang , Phillip Isola

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

Contrastive self-supervised learning methods famously produce high quality transferable representations by learning invariances to different data augmentations. Invariances established during pre-training can be interpreted as strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ruchika Chavhan , Henry Gouk , Jan Stuehmer , Calum Heggan , Mehrdad Yaghoobi , Timothy Hospedales

Mental disorder populations exhibit pronounced heterogeneity -- that is, the significant differences between samples -- poses a significant challenge to the definition of positive pairs in contrastive learning. To address this, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xiaolong Li , Guiliang Guo , Guangqi Wen , Peng Cao , Jinzhu Yang , Honglin Wu , Xiaoli Liu , Fei Wang , Osmar R. Zaiane

Self-supervised learning (SSL) holds promise in leveraging large amounts of unlabeled data. However, the success of popular SSL methods has limited on single-centric-object images like those in ImageNet and ignores the correlation among the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhaowen Li , Yousong Zhu , Fan Yang , Wei Li , Chaoyang Zhao , Yingying Chen , Zhiyang Chen , Jiahao Xie , Liwei Wu , Rui Zhao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a representative graph self-supervised method, achieving significant success. The currently prevalent optimization objective for GCL is InfoNCE. Typically, it employs augmentation techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yulan Hu , Sheng Ouyang , Jingyu Liu , Ge Chen , Zhirui Yang , Junchen Wan , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Yong Liu

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) framework has become a widely used approach for multimodal representation learning, particularly in image-text retrieval and clustering. However, its efficacy is constrained by three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Ziyong Feng , Xingjun Wang , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Yingda Chen , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

Language-guided supervision, which utilizes a frozen semantic target from a Pretrained Language Model (PLM), has emerged as a promising paradigm for visual Continual Learning (CL). However, relying on a single target introduces two critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xiwei Liu , Yulong Li , Yichen Li , Xinlin Zhuang , Haolin Yang , Huifa Li , Imran Razzak

Previous work on action representation learning focused on global representations for short video clips. In contrast, many practical applications, such as video alignment, strongly demand learning the intensive representation of long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Minghao Chen , Renbo Tu , Chenxi Huang , Yuqi Lin , Boxi Wu , Deng Cai

Recent work has shown that, when integrated with adversarial training, self-supervised pre-training can lead to state-of-the-art robustness In this work, we improve robustness-aware self-supervised pre-training by learning representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ziyu Jiang , Tianlong Chen , Ting Chen , Zhangyang Wang

A main task in condensed-matter physics is to recognize, classify, and characterize phases of matter and the corresponding phase transitions, for which machine learning provides a new class of research tools due to the remarkable…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-17 Xiao-Qi Han , Sheng-Song Xu , Zhen Feng , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

The vision-language navigation (VLN) task requires an agent to reach a target with the guidance of natural language instruction. Previous works learn to navigate step-by-step following an instruction. However, these works may fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Xiwen Liang , Fengda Zhu , Yi Zhu , Bingqian Lin , Bing Wang , Xiaodan Liang

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) leverages data augmentation techniques to produce contrasting views, enhancing the accuracy of recommendation systems through learning the consistency between contrastive views. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Chu Zhao , Enneng Yang , Yuliang Liang , Jianzhe Zhao , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang

In this paper, we address a highly challenging yet critical task: unsupervised long-term person re-identification with clothes change. Existing unsupervised person re-id methods are mainly designed for short-term scenarios and usually rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mingkun Li , Peng Xu , Chun-Guang Li , Jun Guo

Medical Visual Question Answering (Medical-VQA) aims to to answer clinical questions regarding radiology images, assisting doctors with decision-making options. Nevertheless, current Medical-VQA models learn cross-modal representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Chenlu Zhan , Peng Peng , Hongsen Wang , Tao Chen , Hongwei Wang

Place recognition is an essential and challenging task in loop closing and global localization for robotics and autonomous driving applications. Benefiting from the recent advances in deep learning techniques, the performance of LiDAR place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jiafeng Cui , Xieyuanli Chen

We introduce a novel anchor-free contrastive learning (AFCL) method leveraging our proposed Similarity-Orthogonality (SimO) loss. Our approach minimizes a semi-metric discriminative loss function that simultaneously optimizes two key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Taha Bouhsine , Imad El Aaroussi , Atik Faysal , Wang Huaxia

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the arduous process of acquiring large volumes of high-quality labeled data from experts. Contrastive learning offers a promising but still problematic solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shuang Zeng , Lei Zhu , Xinliang Zhang , Micky C Nnamdi , Wenqi Shi , J Ben Tamo , Qian Chen , Hangzhou He , Lujia Jin , Zifeng Tian , Qiushi Ren , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Cross-modal retrieval (CMR) typically involves learning common representations to directly measure similarities between multimodal samples. Most existing CMR methods commonly assume multimodal samples in pairs and employ joint training to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Ruitao Pu , Yang Qin , Dezhong Peng , Xiaomin Song , Huiming Zheng

Learning invariant representations is a critical first step in a number of machine learning tasks. A common approach corresponds to the so-called information bottleneck principle in which an application dependent function of mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Aditya Kumar Akash , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande , Sathya N. Ravi , Vikas Singh