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Contrastive Self-supervised Learning (CSL) is a practical solution that learns meaningful visual representations from massive data in an unsupervised approach. The ordinary CSL embeds the features extracted from neural networks onto…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Shentong Mo , Zhun Sun , Chao Li

Aiming at exploiting the rich information in user behaviour sequences, sequential recommendation has been widely adopted in real-world recommender systems. However, current methods suffer from the following issues: 1) sparsity of user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yu Wang , Hengrui Zhang , Zhiwei Liu , Liangwei Yang , Philip S. Yu

Learning representations unaffected by superficial characteristics is important to ensure that shifts in these characteristics at test time do not compromise downstream prediction performance. For instance, in healthcare applications, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Minghui Sun , Benjamin A. Goldstein , Matthew M. Engelhard

Contrastive Learning (CL), a leading paradigm in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), typically relies on pairs of data views generated through augmentation. While multiple augmentations per instance (more than two) improve generalization in…

The availability of large, unlabeled datasets across various domains has contributed to the development of a plethora of methods that learn representations for multiple target (downstream) tasks through self-supervised pre-training. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Christos Garoufis , Athanasia Zlatintsi , Petros Maragos

Contrastive learning is an approach to representation learning that utilizes naturally occurring similar and dissimilar pairs of data points to find useful embeddings of data. In the context of document classification under topic modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Christopher Tosh , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Daniel Hsu

Predicting and reasoning about the future lie at the heart of many time-series questions. For example, goal-conditioned reinforcement learning can be viewed as learning representations to predict which states are likely to be visited in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chongyi Zheng , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Benjamin Eysenbach

To extract robust deep representations from long sequential modeling of speech data, we propose a self-supervised learning approach, namely Contrastive Separative Coding (CSC). Our key finding is to learn such representations by separating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Jun Wang , Max W. Y. Lam , Dan Su , Dong Yu

Recent self-supervised representation learning techniques have largely closed the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning on ImageNet classification. While the particulars of pretraining on ImageNet are now relatively well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Elijah Cole , Xuan Yang , Kimberly Wilber , Oisin Mac Aodha , Serge Belongie

Current sequential recommender systems are proposed to tackle the dynamic user preference learning with various neural techniques, such as Transformer and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, inference from the highly sparse user behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chunzhen Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin

Cross entropy loss has served as the main objective function for classification-based tasks. Widely deployed for learning neural network classifiers, it shows both effectiveness and a probabilistic interpretation. Recently, after the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Rahaf Aljundi , Yash Patel , Milan Sulc , Daniel Olmeda , Nikolay Chumerin

In the era of large foundation models, the quality of embeddings has become a central determinant of downstream task performance and overall system capability. Yet widely used dense embeddings are often extremely high-dimensional, incurring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lixuan Guo , Yifei Wang , Tiansheng Wen , Yifan Wang , Aosong Feng , Bo Chen , Stefanie Jegelka , Chenyu You

Contrastive representation learning seeks to acquire useful representations by estimating the shared information between multiple views of data. Here, the choice of data augmentation is sensitive to the quality of learned representations:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Kyungmin Lee , Jinwoo Shin

As one of the largest B2C e-commerce platforms in China, JD com also powers a leading advertising system, serving millions of advertisers with fingertip connection to hundreds of millions of customers. In our system, as well as most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Hu Liu , Jing Lu , Hao Yang , Xiwei Zhao , Sulong Xu , Hao Peng , Zehua Zhang , Wenjie Niu , Xiaokun Zhu , Yongjun Bao , Weipeng Yan

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown great capacity of modeling a dynamical system; nevertheless, they usually do not obey physics constraints such as conservation laws. This paper proposes a new learning framework named ConCerNet to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Wang Zhang , Tsui-Wei Weng , Subhro Das , Alexandre Megretski , Luca Daniel , Lam M. Nguyen

Contrastive learning has revolutionized the field of computer vision, learning rich representations from unlabeled data, which generalize well to diverse vision tasks. Consequently, it has become increasingly important to explain these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Fawaz Sammani , Boris Joukovsky , Nikos Deligiannis

Dense prediction tasks such as segmentation and detection of pathological entities hold crucial clinical value in computational pathology workflows. However, obtaining dense annotations on large cohorts is usually tedious and expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jingwei Zhang , Saarthak Kapse , Ke Ma , Prateek Prasanna , Maria Vakalopoulou , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras

Self-supervised pre-training of deep learning models with contrastive learning is a widely used technique in image analysis. Current findings indicate a strong potential for contrastive pre-training on medical images. However, further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Daniel Wolf , Tristan Payer , Catharina Silvia Lisson , Christoph Gerhard Lisson , Meinrad Beer , Michael Götz , Timo Ropinski

Unsupervised image complexity representation often suffers from bias in positive sample selection and sensitivity to image content. We propose CLICv2, a contrastive learning framework that enforces content invariance for complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shipeng Liu , Liang Zhao , Dengfeng Chen

Network representation learning seeks to embed networks into a low-dimensional space while preserving the structural and semantic properties, thereby facilitating downstream tasks such as classification, trait prediction, edge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-16 Zihan Dong , Xin Zhou , Ryumei Nakada , Lexin Li , Linjun Zhang