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Self-supervised learning (SSL) is gaining attention for its ability to learn effective representations with large amounts of unlabeled data. Lightweight models can be distilled from larger self-supervised pre-trained models using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Khanh-Binh Nguyen , Chae Jung Park

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a scalable way to learn general visual representations since it learns without labels. However, large-scale unlabeled datasets in the wild often have long-tailed label distributions, where we know little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Hong Liu , Jeff Z. HaoChen , Adrien Gaidon , Tengyu Ma

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has attracted increased attention for learning meaningful speech representations. Speech SSL models, such as WavLM, employ masked prediction training to encode general-purpose representations. In contrast,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Kohei Matsuura , Taichi Asami , Yusuke Ijima

The need for abundant labelled data in supervised Adversarial Training (AT) has prompted the use of Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) techniques with AT. However, the direct application of existing SSL methods to adversarial training has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sravanti Addepalli , Priyam Dey , R. Venkatesh Babu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has rapidly emerged as a transformative approach in computer vision, enabling the extraction of rich feature representations from vast amounts of unlabeled data and reducing reliance on costly manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki , Athanasios Gkelias

Recent advances in image-level self-supervised learning (SSL) have made significant progress, yet learning dense representations for patches remains challenging. Mainstream methods encounter an over-dispersion phenomenon that patches from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Peisong Wen , Qianqian Xu , Siran Dai , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

Linear probing (LP) (and $k$-NN) on the upstream dataset with labels (e.g., ImageNet) and transfer learning (TL) to various downstream datasets are commonly employed to evaluate the quality of visual representations learned via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Jae-Hun Lee , Doyoung Yoon , ByeongMoon Ji , Kyungyul Kim , Sangheum Hwang

As a newly emerging unsupervised learning paradigm, self-supervised learning (SSL) recently gained widespread attention, which usually introduces a pretext task without manual annotation of data. With its help, SSL effectively learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Chuanxing Geng , Zhenghao Tan , Songcan Chen

Despite the impressive progress of self-supervised learning (SSL), its applicability to low-compute networks has received limited attention. Reported performance has trailed behind standard supervised pre-training by a large margin, barring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Fuwen Tan , Fatemeh Saleh , Brais Martinez

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach in computer vision, enabling networks to learn meaningful representations from large unlabeled datasets. SSL methods fall into two main categories: instance discrimination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Alina Ciocarlan , Sidonie Lefebvre , Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle , Arnaud Woiselle

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a popular method for generating invariant representations without the need for human annotations. Nonetheless, the desired invariant representation is achieved by utilising prior online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Foivos Ntelemis , Yaochu Jin , Spencer A. Thomas

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) has become a preferred paradigm in many deep learning tasks, which reduces the need for human labor. Previous studies primarily focus on effectively utilising the labelled and unlabeled data to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Qian Shao , Jiangrui Kang , Qiyuan Chen , Zepeng Li , Hongxia Xu , Yiwen Cao , Jiajuan Liang , Jian Wu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has gained widespread attention in the remote sensing (RS) and earth observation (EO) communities owing to its ability to learn task-agnostic representations without human-annotated labels. Nevertheless, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Dilxat Muhtar , Xueliang Zhang , Pengfeng Xiao , Zhenshi Li , Feng Gu

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) for Vision Transformers (ViTs) has recently demonstrated considerable potential as a pre-training strategy for a variety of computer vision tasks, including image classification and segmentation, both in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yannis Kaltampanidis , Alexandros Doumanoglou , Dimitrios Zarpalas

Several self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have shown that redundancy reduction in the feature embedding space is an effective tool for representation learning. However, these methods consider a narrow notion of redundancy, focusing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 David Zollikofer , Béni Egressy , Frederik Benzing , Matthias Otth , Roger Wattenhofer

Deep learning models trained in a supervised setting have revolutionized audio and speech processing. However, their performance inherently depends on the quantity of human-annotated data, making them costly to scale and prone to poor…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

Learning visual representations through self-supervision is an extremely challenging task as the network needs to sieve relevant patterns from spurious distractors without the active guidance provided by supervision. This is achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Fatemeh Saleh , Fuwen Tan , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

Supervised deep learning models depend on massive labeled data. Unfortunately, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to collect and annotate bitemporal samples containing desired changes. Transfer learning from pre-trained models is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hao Chen , Wenyuan Li , Song Chen , Zhenwei Shi

We address the problem of evaluating the quality of self-supervised learning (SSL) models without access to supervised labels, while being agnostic to the architecture, learning algorithm or data manipulation used during training. We argue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yuchen Lu , Zhen Liu , Aristide Baratin , Romain Laroche , Aaron Courville , Alessandro Sordoni

In recent years, semi-supervised learning (SSL) has shown tremendous success in leveraging unlabeled data to improve the performance of deep learning models, which significantly reduces the demand for large amounts of labeled data. Many SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Song-Bo Yang , Tian-li Yu