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Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is the most representative and prevalent self-supervised learning approach for graph-structured data. Despite its remarkable success, existing GCL methods highly rely on an augmentation scheme to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haonan Wang , Jieyu Zhang , Qi Zhu , Wei Huang

As one of the most effective self-supervised representation learning methods, contrastive learning (CL) relies on multiple negative pairs to contrast against each positive pair. In the standard practice of contrastive learning, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Lu Wang , Chao Du , Pu Zhao , Chuan Luo , Zhangchi Zhu , Bo Qiao , Wei Zhang , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Zhang

Contrastive learning has shown effectiveness in improving sequential recommendation models. However, existing methods still face challenges in generating high-quality contrastive pairs: they either rely on random perturbations that corrupt…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ziqiang Cui , Yunpeng Weng , Xing Tang , Xiaokun Zhang , Shiwei Li , Peiyang Liu , Bowei He , Dugang Liu , Weihong Luo , Xiuqiang He , Chen Ma

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) has managed to match or surpass the performance of supervised learning in image and video classification. However, it is still largely unknown if the nature of the representations induced by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Rohit Gupta , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Inspired by the impressive success of contrastive learning (CL), a variety of graph augmentation strategies have been employed to learn node representations in a self-supervised manner. Existing methods construct the contrastive samples by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Peiyao Zhao , Yuangang Pan , Xin Li , Xu Chen , Ivor W. Tsang , Lejian Liao

We present Cycle-Contrastive Learning (CCL), a novel self-supervised method for learning video representation. Following a nature that there is a belong and inclusion relation of video and its frames, CCL is designed to find correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Quan Kong , Wenpeng Wei , Ziwei Deng , Tomoaki Yoshinaga , Tomokazu Murakami

Learning sentence embeddings in an unsupervised manner is fundamental in natural language processing. Recent common practice is to couple pre-trained language models with unsupervised contrastive learning, whose success relies on augmenting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Can Xu , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang

Contrastive learning (CL), a self-supervised learning approach, can effectively learn visual representations from unlabeled data. Given the CL training data, generative models can be trained to generate synthetic data to supplement the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yawen Wu , Zhepeng Wang , Dewen Zeng , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Although augmentations (e.g., perturbation of graph edges, image crops) boost the efficiency of Contrastive Learning (CL), feature level augmentation is another plausible, complementary yet not well researched strategy. Thus, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yifei Zhang , Hao Zhu , Zixing Song , Piotr Koniusz , Irwin King

Contrastive learning has emerged as an essential approach for self-supervised learning in visual representation learning. The central objective of contrastive learning is to maximize the similarities between two augmented versions of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hengkui Dong , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li , Lei Chen

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

Multi-modal contrastive learning (MMCL) has recently garnered considerable interest due to its superior performance in visual tasks, achieved by embedding multi-modal data, such as visual-language pairs. However, there still lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

We investigate contrastive learning in the federated setting through the lens of SimCLR and multi-view mutual information maximization. In doing so, we uncover a connection between contrastive representation learning and user verification;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Christos Louizos , Matthias Reisser , Denis Korzhenkov

We introduce EfficientCL, a memory-efficient continual pretraining method that applies contrastive learning with novel data augmentation and curriculum learning. For data augmentation, we stack two types of operation sequentially: cutoff…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Seonghyeon Ye , Jiseon Kim , Alice Oh

Many contrastive representation learning methods learn a single global representation of an entire image. However, dense contrastive representation learning methods such as DenseCL (Wang et al., 2021) can learn better representations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Berk Iskender , Zhenlin Xu , Simon Kornblith , En-Hung Chu , Maryam Khademi

Given augmented views of each input graph, contrastive learning methods (e.g., InfoNCE) optimize pairwise alignment of graph embeddings across views while providing no mechanism to control the global structure of the view specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Manh Nguyen

In this paper, we present a new cross-architecture contrastive learning (CACL) framework for self-supervised video representation learning. CACL consists of a 3D CNN and a video transformer which are used in parallel to generate diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Sheng Guo , Zihua Xiong , Yujie Zhong , Limin Wang , Xiaobo Guo , Bing Han , Weilin Huang

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a pivotal technique in the domain of graph representation learning. A crucial aspect of effective GCL is the caliber of generated positive and negative samples, which is intrinsically dictated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Xinjian Zhao , Liang Zhang , Yang Liu , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Contrastive learning, especially self-supervised contrastive learning (SSCL), has achieved great success in extracting powerful features from unlabeled data. In this work, we contribute to the theoretical understanding of SSCL and uncover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Tianyang Hu , Zhili Liu , Fengwei Zhou , Wenjia Wang , Weiran Huang

Contrastive learning (CL) has become the de-facto learning paradigm in self-supervised learning on graphs, which generally follows the "augmenting-contrasting" learning scheme. However, we observe that unlike CL in computer vision domain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Wen-Zhi Li , Chang-Dong Wang , Hui Xiong , Jian-Huang Lai