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We develop biologically plausible training mechanisms for self-supervised learning (SSL) in deep networks. Specifically, by biological plausible training we mean (i) All updates of weights are based on current activities of pre-synaptic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Mufeng Tang , Yibo Yang , Yali Amit

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) plays a central role in molecular representation learning. Yet, many recent innovations in masking-based pretraining are introduced as heuristics and lack principled evaluation, obscuring which design choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiannan Yang , Veronika Thost , Tengfei Ma

Semi-supervised learning (SSL), thanks to the significant reduction of data annotation costs, has been an active research topic for large-scale 3D scene understanding. However, the existing SSL-based methods suffer from severe training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mengtian Li , Shaohui Lin , Zihan Wang , Yunhang Shen , Baochang Zhang , Lizhuang Ma

Self supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning paradigm where models learn to understand the underlying structure of data without explicit supervision from labeled samples. The acquired representations from SSL have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yunshan Duan , Sinead Williamson

Incorporating self-supervised learning (SSL) before standard supervised learning (SL) has become a widely used strategy to enhance model performance, particularly in data-limited scenarios. However, this approach introduces a trade-off…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zexin Li , Jiancheng Zhang , Yufei Li , Yinglun Zhu , Cong Liu

Attributed graph clustering is an unsupervised task that partitions nodes into different groups. Self-supervised learning (SSL) shows great potential in handling this task, and some recent studies simultaneously learn multiple SSL tasks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Pengfei Zhu , Qian Wang , Yu Wang , Jialu Li , Qinghua Hu

Fine-grained image classification involves identifying different subcategories of a class which possess very subtle discriminatory features. Fine-grained datasets usually provide bounding box annotations along with class labels to aid the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Farha Al Breiki , Muhammad Ridzuan , Rushali Grandhe

In the domain of semi-supervised learning (SSL), the conventional approach involves training a learner with a limited amount of labeled data alongside a substantial volume of unlabeled data, both drawn from the same underlying distribution.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

Simplicity Bias (SB) is a phenomenon that deep neural networks tend to rely favorably on simpler predictive patterns but ignore some complex features when applied to supervised discriminative tasks. In this work, we investigate SB in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xiu-Shen Wei , Xuhao Sun , Yang Shen , Anqi Xu , Peng Wang , Faen Zhang

The current success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in an increasingly broad range of tasks involving artificial intelligence strongly depends on the quality and quantity of labeled training data. In general, the scarcity of labeled data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Shun Kiyono , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

Deep learning on graphs has attracted significant interests recently. However, most of the works have focused on (semi-) supervised learning, resulting in shortcomings including heavy label reliance, poor generalization, and weak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yixin Liu , Ming Jin , Shirui Pan , Chuan Zhou , Yu Zheng , Feng Xia , Philip S. Yu

The rapid advancement in self-supervised representation learning has highlighted its potential to leverage unlabeled data for learning rich visual representations. However, the existing techniques, particularly those employing different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Sana Ayromlou , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Fereshteh Forghani , Arash Afkanpour

Collecting large-scale medical datasets with fully annotated samples for training of deep networks is prohibitively expensive, especially for 3D volume data. Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning (SSL) offer the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Duy M. H. Nguyen , Hoang Nguyen , Mai T. N. Truong , Tri Cao , Binh T. Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Paul Swoboda , Shadi Albarqouni , Pengtao Xie , Daniel Sonntag

Self-supervised learning (SSL) as an effective paradigm of representation learning has achieved tremendous success on various curated datasets in diverse scenarios. Nevertheless, when facing the long-tailed distribution in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zhihan Zhou , Jiangchao Yao , Feng Hong , Ya Zhang , Bo Han , Yanfeng Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) applied to natural images has demonstrated a remarkable ability to learn meaningful, low-dimension representations without labels, resulting in models that are adaptable to many different tasks. Until now,…

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has garnered significant attention due to its ability to leverage limited labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data to improve model generalization performance. Recent approaches achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Bo Cheng , Jueqing Lu , Yuan Tian , Haifeng Zhao , Yi Chang , Lan Du

We propose a novel theoretical framework to understand contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) methods that employ dual pairs of deep ReLU networks (e.g., SimCLR). First, we prove that in each SGD update of SimCLR with various loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yuandong Tian , Lantao Yu , Xinlei Chen , Surya Ganguli

Advances in deep learning are re-defining how visual data is processed and understand by the machines. Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated prominent performance in computer vision related tasks. However, their performance…

A major limitation in applying deep learning to artificial intelligence (AI) systems is the scarcity of high-quality curated datasets. We investigate strong augmentation based self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques to address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 John D. Miller , Vignesh A. Arasu , Albert X. Pu , Laurie R. Margolies , Weiva Sieh , Li Shen