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Multiview clustering (MVC) aims to reveal the underlying structure of multiview data by categorizing data samples into clusters. Deep learning-based methods exhibit strong feature learning capabilities on large-scale datasets. For most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Xi Peng

Whilst contrastive learning has recently brought notable benefits to deep clustering of unlabelled images by learning sample-specific discriminative visual features, its potential for explicitly inferring class decision boundaries is less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

Self-supervised learning based on instance discrimination has shown remarkable progress. In particular, contrastive learning, which regards each image as well as its augmentations as an individual class and tries to distinguish them from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Haohang Xu , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hao Li , Lingxi Xie , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

While contrastive learning is proven to be an effective training strategy in computer vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is only recently adopting it as a self-supervised alternative to Masked Language Modeling (MLM) for improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hooman Sedghamiz , Shivam Raval , Enrico Santus , Tuka Alhanai , Mohammad Ghassemi

Contrastive learning (CL) methods effectively learn data representations in a self-supervision manner, where the encoder contrasts each positive sample over multiple negative samples via a one-vs-many softmax cross-entropy loss. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Huangjie Zheng , Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Hongxia Yang , Chunyuan Li , Ya Zhang , Hao Zhang , Ivor Tsang , Jingren Zhou , Mingyuan Zhou

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful tool for graph representation learning. However, most contrastive learning methods learn features of graphs with fixed coarse-grained scale, which might underestimate either local or global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Jun Wang , Weixun Li , Changyu Hou , Xin Tang , Yixuan Qiao , Rui Fang , Pengyong Li , Peng Gao , Guotong Xie

Long-tailed recognition with imbalanced class distribution naturally emerges in practical machine learning applications. Existing methods such as data reweighing, resampling, and supervised contrastive learning enforce the class balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Chengkai Hou , Jieyu Zhang , Haonan Wang , Tianyi Zhou

In this work, we present Multi-Level Contrastive Learning for Dense Prediction Task (MCL), an efficient self-supervised method for learning region-level feature representation for dense prediction tasks. Our method is motivated by the three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Qiushan Guo , Yizhou Yu , Yi Jiang , Jiannan Wu , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

Deep neural networks trained with backpropagation have achieved outstanding performance in vision tasks but remain biologically implausible, computationally demanding, and difficult to interpret. The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jie-En Yao , Hong-En Chen , C. -C. Jay Kuo

The joint optimization of representation learning and clustering in the embedding space has experienced a breakthrough in recent years. In spite of the advance, clustering with representation learning has been limited to flat-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Su-Jin Shin , Kyungwoo Song , Il-Chul Moon

Supervised contrastive learning (SCL) frameworks treat each class as independent and thus consider all classes to be equally important. This neglects the common scenario in which label hierarchy exists, where fine-grained classes under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Ruixue Lian , William A. Sethares , Junjie Hu

Multiview clustering (MVC) segregates data samples into meaningful clusters by synthesizing information across multiple views. Moreover, deep learning-based methods have demonstrated their strong feature learning capabilities in MVC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Hao Yang , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Jie Chen , Xi Peng

Multi-view clustering can explore common semantics from multiple views and has attracted increasing attention. However, existing works punish multiple objectives in the same feature space, where they ignore the conflict between learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Jie Xu , Huayi Tang , Yazhou Ren , Liang Peng , Xiaofeng Zhu , Lifang He

Real-world data often follow a long-tailed distribution with a high imbalance in the number of samples between classes. The problem with training from imbalanced data is that some background features, common to all classes, can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Sanglee Park , Seung-won Hwang , Jungmin So

Most multi-view clustering methods are limited by shallow models without sound nonlinear information perception capability, or fail to effectively exploit complementary information hidden in different views. To tackle these issues, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Fu Lele , Zhang Lei , Yang Jinghua , Chen Chuan , Zhang Chuanfu , Zheng Zibin

Sequential recommendation addresses the issue of preference drift by predicting the next item based on the user's previous behaviors. Recently, a promising approach using contrastive learning has emerged, demonstrating its effectiveness in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Dongjun Lee , Donggeun Ko , Jaekwang Kim

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL), which fuses graph neural networks with contrastive learning, has evolved as a pivotal tool in user-item recommendations. While promising, existing GCL methods often lack explicit modeling of hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiawei Xue , Zhen Yang , Haitao Lin , Ziji Zhang , Luzhu Wang , Yikun Gu , Yao Xu , Xin Li

Through minimization of an appropriate loss function such as the InfoNCE loss, contrastive learning (CL) learns a useful representation function by pulling positive samples close to each other while pushing negative samples far apart in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ruijie Jiang , Thuan Nguyen , Prakash Ishwar , Shuchin Aeron

Subspace clustering aims to group data points that lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces and finds wide application in computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, and recommendation systems. However, most existing methods assume fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Huanran Li , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently demonstrated success across various tasks due to superior feature representation empowered by image-text contrastive learning. However, the instance discrimination method used by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xiang An , Kaicheng Yang , Xiangzi Dai , Ziyong Feng , Jiankang Deng