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Contrastive learning (CL) methods effectively learn data representations in a self-supervision manner, where the encoder contrasts each positive sample over multiple negative samples via a one-vs-many softmax cross-entropy loss. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Huangjie Zheng , Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Hongxia Yang , Chunyuan Li , Ya Zhang , Hao Zhang , Ivor Tsang , Jingren Zhou , Mingyuan Zhou

Generating accurate and coherent image captions in a continual learning setting remains a major challenge due to catastrophic forgetting and the difficulty of aligning evolving visual concepts with language over time. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Bertram Taetz , Gal Bordelius

The advent of graph convolutional network (GCN)-based multi-view learning provides a powerful framework for integrating structural information from heterogeneous views, enabling effective modeling of complex multi-view data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Huaiyuan Xiao , Fadi Dornaika , Jingjun Bi

Recent progress in contrastive learning has revolutionized unsupervised representation learning. Concretely, multiple views (augmentations) from the same image are encouraged to map to the similar embeddings, while views from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Nanxuan Zhao , Zhirong Wu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Stephen Lin

Graph contrastive learning defines a contrastive task to pull similar instances close and push dissimilar instances away. It learns discriminative node embeddings without supervised labels, which has aroused increasing attention in the past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lin Shu , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng

Continual learning has been developed using standard supervised contrastive loss from the perspective of feature learning. Due to the data imbalance during the training, there are still challenges in learning better representations. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Bilan Gao , YoungBin Kim

Current research in Computer Vision has shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) give state-of-the-art performance in many classification tasks and Computer Vision problems. The embedding of CNN, which is the internal representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Axel Angel

Deep Bregman divergence measures divergence of data points using neural networks which is beyond Euclidean distance and capable of capturing divergence over distributions. In this paper, we propose deep Bregman divergences for contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Mina Rezaei , Farzin Soleymani , Bernd Bischl , Shekoofeh Azizi

Contrastive self-supervised learning methods famously produce high quality transferable representations by learning invariances to different data augmentations. Invariances established during pre-training can be interpreted as strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ruchika Chavhan , Henry Gouk , Jan Stuehmer , Calum Heggan , Mehrdad Yaghoobi , Timothy Hospedales

Link prediction tasks focus on predicting possible future connections. Most existing researches measure the likelihood of links by different similarity scores on node pairs and predict links between nodes. However, the similarity-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Zehua Zhang , Shilin Sun , Guixiang Ma , Caiming Zhong

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

Lesion detection is a fundamental problem in the computer-aided diagnosis scheme for mammography. The advance of deep learning techniques have made a remarkable progress for this task, provided that the training data are large and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Zheren Li , Zhiming Cui , Sheng Wang , Yuji Qi , Xi Ouyang , Qitian Chen , Yuezhi Yang , Zhong Xue , Dinggang Shen , Jie-Zhi Cheng

In recent years, several unsupervised, "contrastive" learning algorithms in vision have been shown to learn representations that perform remarkably well on transfer tasks. We show that this family of algorithms maximizes a lower bound on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Mike Wu , Chengxu Zhuang , Milan Mosse , Daniel Yamins , Noah Goodman

The existing contrastive learning methods mainly focus on single-grained representation learning, e.g., part-level, object-level or scene-level ones, thus inevitably neglecting the transferability of representations on other granularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Chengchao Shen , Jianzhong Chen , Jianxin Wang

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success in learning effective representations, with supervised contrastive learning often outperforming self-supervised approaches. However, in real-world scenarios, data annotations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zi-Hao Zhou , Jun-Jie Wang , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

We present a deep learning approach for learning the joint semantic embeddings of images and captions in a Euclidean space, such that the semantic similarity is approximated by the L2 distances in the embedding space. For that, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Noam Malali , Yosi Keller

Graph Self-Supervised Learning (GSSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for generating high-quality representations for graph-structured data. While multi-scale graph contrastive learning has received increasing attention, many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mohamed Mahmoud Amar , Nairouz Mrabah , Mohamed Bouguessa , Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo

Self-supervised contrastive learning frameworks have progressed rapidly over the last few years. In this paper, we propose a novel loss function for contrastive learning. We model our pre-training task as a binary classification problem to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Siladittya Manna , Umapada Pal , Saumik Bhattacharya

We present a collaborative learning method called Mutual Contrastive Learning (MCL) for general visual representation learning. The core idea of MCL is to perform mutual interaction and transfer of contrastive distributions among a cohort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Linhang Cai , Yongjun Xu

Self-supervised learning is a machine learning approach that generates implicit labels by learning underlined patterns and extracting discriminative features from unlabeled data without manual labelling. Contrastive learning introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Asifullah Khan , Laiba Asmatullah , Anza Malik , Shahzaib Khan , Hamna Asif