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Contrastive learning has been a leading paradigm for self-supervised learning, but it is widely observed that it comes at the price of sacrificing useful features (\eg colors) by being invariant to data augmentations. Given this limitation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yifei Wang , Kaiwen Hu , Sharut Gupta , Ziyu Ye , Yisen Wang , Stefanie Jegelka

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) require large image corpora to be trained on classification tasks. The variation in image resolutions, sizes of objects and patterns depicted, and image scales, hampers CNN training and performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Nanne van Noord , Eric Postma

Contrastive learning is among the most successful methods for visual representation learning, and its performance can be further improved by jointly performing clustering on the learned representations. However, existing methods for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , JaeEun Nam , Emilio Dorigatti , Bernd Bischl , Shekoofeh Azizi , Mina Rezaei

In the realms of computer vision, it is evident that deep neural networks perform better in a supervised setting with a large amount of labeled data. The representations learned with supervision are not only of high quality but also helps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Souradip Chakraborty , Aritra Roy Gosthipaty , Sayak Paul

Recently, dense contrastive learning has shown superior performance on dense prediction tasks compared to instance-level contrastive learning. Despite its supremacy, the properties of dense contrastive representations have not yet been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jong Hak Moon , Wonjae Kim , Edward Choi

Contrastive learning, which aims at minimizing the distance between positive pairs while maximizing that of negative ones, has been widely and successfully applied in unsupervised feature learning, where the design of positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Rui Zhu , Bingchen Zhao , Jingen Liu , Zhenglong Sun , Chang Wen Chen

Existing self-supervised learning methods learn representation by means of pretext tasks which are either (1) discriminating that explicitly specify which features should be separated or (2) aligning that precisely indicate which features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Anjan Dutta , Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata

The common research goal of self-supervised learning is to extract a general representation which an arbitrary downstream task would benefit from. In this work, we investigate music audio representation learned from different contrastive…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jeong Choi , Seongwon Jang , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

User modeling, which aims to capture users' characteristics or interests, heavily relies on task-specific labeled data and suffers from the data sparsity issue. Several recent studies tackled this problem by pre-training the user model on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yang Yu , Qi Liu , Kai Zhang , Yuren Zhang , Chao Song , Min Hou , Yuqing Yuan , Zhihao Ye , Zaixi Zhang , Sanshi Lei Yu

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a machine learning task aiming to identify signs in videos. Due to the scarcity of annotated data, unsupervised methods like contrastive learning have become promising in this field. They learn meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ariel Basso Madjoukeng , Jérôme Fink , Pierre Poitier , Edith Belise Kenmogne , Benoit Frenay

Recently, contrastive learning has achieved great results in self-supervised learning, where the main idea is to push two augmentations of an image (positive pairs) closer compared to other random images (negative pairs). We argue that not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ajinkya Tejankar , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Vipin Pillai , Paolo Favaro , Hamed Pirsiavash

Preserving maximal information is one of principles of designing self-supervised learning methodologies. To reach this goal, contrastive learning adopts an implicit way which is contrasting image pairs. However, we believe it is not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chixiang Lu , Sibei Yang , Xiaoguang Han , Yizhou Yu

In the field of visual representation learning, performance of contrastive learning has been catching up with the supervised method which is commonly a classification convolutional neural network. However, most of the research work focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xiaoqi Zhuang

In this paper, a contrastive representation learning framework is proposed to enhance human action segmentation via pre-training using trimmed (single action) skeleton sequences. Unlike previous representation learning works that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Haitao Tian , Pierre Payeur

Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) allows the agent to reproduce expert behavior with low-dimensional states and actions. However, challenges arise in handling visual states due to their less distinguishable representation compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yunke Wang , Linwei Tao , Bo Du , Yutian Lin , Chang Xu

Continual learning (CL) aims to train models sequentially over multiple domains without forgetting previously learned knowledge. However, existing CL methods optimize for in-domain performance and are therefore prone to learning spurious,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pascal Janetzky , Tobias Schlagenhauf , Stefan Feuerriegel

(Very early draft)Traditional supervised learning keeps pushing convolution neural network(CNN) achieving state-of-art performance. However, lack of large-scale annotation data is always a big problem due to the high cost of it, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Zhibo Wang , Shen Yan , Xiaoyu Zhang , Niels Lobo

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is a task that aims to improve the recommendation performance in a target domain by leveraging the information from source domains. Contrastive learning methods have been widely adopted among intra-domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Heng Chang , Liang Gu , Cheng Hu , Zhinan Zhang , Hong Zhu , Yuhui Xu , Yuan Fang , Zhen Chen

Recently, contrastive learning has risen to be a promising approach for large-scale self-supervised learning. However, theoretical understanding of how it works is still unclear. In this paper, we propose a new guarantee on the downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Yifei Wang , Qi Zhang , Yisen Wang , Jiansheng Yang , Zhouchen Lin