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In recent years, self-supervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition has advanced with the development of contrastive learning methods. However, most of contrastive paradigms are inherently discriminative and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dang Dinh Nguyen , Decky Aspandi Latif , Titus Zaharia

Understanding how objects relate to each other in space is fundamental to scene understanding, yet most contrastive pre-training approaches only model pairwise relationships, leaving richer compositional and multi-hop interactions largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sheikh Tanvir Ahmed , Md. Tanvir Raihan

Decoding neural visual representations from electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain activity is crucial for advancing brain-machine interfaces (BMI) and has transformative potential for neural sensory rehabilitation. While multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yueyang Li , Zijian Kang , Shengyu Gong , Wenhao Dong , Weiming Zeng , Hongjie Yan , Wai Ting Siok , Nizhuan Wang

Contrastive learning is a cornerstone underlying recent progress in multi-view and multimodal learning, e.g., in representation learning with image/caption pairs. While its effectiveness is not yet fully understood, a line of recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Imant Daunhawer , Alice Bizeul , Emanuele Palumbo , Alexander Marx , Julia E. Vogt

Multimodal recommender systems leverage diverse data sources, such as user interactions, content features, and contextual information, to address challenges like cold-start and data sparsity. However, existing methods often suffer from one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Adamya Shyam , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Bharti Rana , Vikas Kumar

This work considers supervised contrastive learning for semantic segmentation. We apply contrastive learning to enhance the discriminative power of the multi-scale features extracted by semantic segmentation networks. Our key methodological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Theodoros Pissas , Claudio S. Ravasio , Lyndon Da Cruz , Christos Bergeles

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

With the thriving of pre-trained language model (PLM) widely verified in various of NLP tasks, pioneer efforts attempt to explore the possible cooperation of the general textual information in PLM with the personalized behavioral…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zekai Qu , Ruobing Xie , Chaojun Xiao , Yuan Yao , Zhiyuan Liu , Fengzong Lian , Zhanhui Kang , Jie Zhou

In order to develop effective sequential recommenders, a series of sequence representation learning (SRL) methods are proposed to model historical user behaviors. Most existing SRL methods rely on explicit item IDs for developing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yupeng Hou , Shanlei Mu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Ji-Rong Wen

Sequential Recommendation (SR) has received increasing attention due to its ability to capture user dynamic preferences. Recently, Contrastive Learning (CL) provides an effective approach for sequential recommendation by learning invariance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yongjing Hao , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Jianfeng Qu , Guanfeng Liu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Victor S. Sheng , Xiaofang Zhou

The Multimodal Emotion Recognition challenge MER2024 focuses on recognizing emotions using audio, language, and visual signals. In this paper, we present our submission solutions for the Semi-Supervised Learning Sub-Challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qi Fan , Yutong Li , Yi Xin , Xinyu Cheng , Guanglai Gao , Miao Ma

Contrastive self-supervised learning has outperformed supervised pretraining on many downstream tasks like segmentation and object detection. However, current methods are still primarily applied to curated datasets like ImageNet. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Luc Van Gool

Language-supervised vision models have recently attracted great attention in computer vision. A common approach to build such models is to use contrastive learning on paired data across the two modalities, as exemplified by Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Ryumei Nakada , Halil Ibrahim Gulluk , Zhun Deng , Wenlong Ji , James Zou , Linjun Zhang

The increasing availability and diversity of multimodal data in recommender systems offer new avenues for enhancing recommendation accuracy and user satisfaction. However, these systems must contend with high-dimensional, sparse user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yasser Khalafaoui , Martino Lovisetto , Basarab Matei , Nistor Grozavu

Self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition with contrastive learning has attracted much attention. Recent literature shows that data augmentation and large sets of contrastive pairs are crucial in learning such representations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Zhan Chen , Hong Liu , Tianyu Guo , Zhengyan Chen , Pinhao Song , Hao Tang

Recent works in multimodal recommendations, which leverage diverse modal information to address data sparsity and enhance recommendation accuracy, have garnered considerable interest. Two key processes in multimodal recommendations are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Sang-Wook Kim , Edith C. H. Ngai

Many modern sequential recommender systems use deep neural networks, which can effectively estimate the relevance of items but require a lot of time to train. Slow training increases expenses, hinders product development timescales and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Aleksandr Petrov , Craig Macdonald

Recent advancements in biology and chemistry have leveraged multi-modal learning, integrating molecules and their natural language descriptions to enhance drug discovery. However, current pre-training frameworks are limited to two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Teng Xiao , Chao Cui , Huaisheng Zhu , Vasant G. Honavar

The burgeoning volume of multi-modal data necessitates advanced retrieval paradigms beyond unimodal and cross-modal approaches. Composed Multi-modal Retrieval (CMR) emerges as a pivotal next-generation technology, enabling users to query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kun Zhang , Jingyu Li , Zhe Li , Jingjing Zhang , Fan Li , Yandong Liu , Rui Yan , Zihang Jiang , Nan Chen , Lei Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao , S. Kevin Zhou

Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to extract the preference from the user's historical interactions across various domains. Despite some progress in CDSR, two problems set the barrier for further advancements, i.e., overlap…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Qidong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yejing Wang , Zijian Zhang , Howard Zhong , Chong Chen , Xiang Li , Wei Huang , Feng Tian