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Continual Learning (CL) empowers AI models to continuously learn from sequential task streams. Recently, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT)-based CL methods have garnered increasing attention due to their superior performance. They…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lingfeng He , De Cheng , Zhiheng Ma , Huaijie Wang , Dingwen Zhang , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

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

In this paper, we explore a new knowledge-amalgamation problem, termed Federated Selective Aggregation (FedSA). The goal of FedSA is to train a student model for a new task with the help of several decentralized teachers, whose pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Donglin Xie , Ruonan Yu , Gongfan Fang , Jie Song , Zunlei Feng , Xinchao Wang , Li Sun , Mingli Song

Contrastive learning has achieved great success in self-supervised visual representation learning, but existing approaches mostly ignored spatial information which is often crucial for visual representation. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xinyue Huo , Lingxi Xie , Longhui Wei , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hao Li , Zijie Yang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Recent empirical works have successfully used unlabeled data to learn feature representations that are broadly useful in downstream classification tasks. Several of these methods are reminiscent of the well-known word2vec embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sanjeev Arora , Hrishikesh Khandeparkar , Mikhail Khodak , Orestis Plevrakis , Nikunj Saunshi

Recently, deep learning models have achieved great success in computer vision applications, relying on large-scale class-balanced datasets. However, imbalanced class distributions still limit the wide applicability of these models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Yechan Kim , Younkwan Lee , Moongu Jeon

Recognizing objects in low-resolution images is a challenging task due to the lack of informative details. Recent studies have shown that knowledge distillation approaches can effectively transfer knowledge from a high-resolution teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Kangkai Zhang , Shiming Ge , Ruixin Shi , Dan Zeng

In practical applications of human pose estimation, low-resolution inputs frequently occur, and existing state-of-the-art models perform poorly with low-resolution images. This work focuses on boosting the performance of low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zejun Gu , Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Henghui Ding , Hao Shen , Zhao Zhang , De-Shuang Huang

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

General Continual Learning (GCL) aims at learning from non independent and identically distributed stream data without catastrophic forgetting of the old tasks that don't rely on task boundaries during both training and testing stages. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhong Ji , Jin Li , Qiang Wang , Zhongfei Zhang

Contrastive learning, a dominant self-supervised technique, emphasizes similarity in representations between augmentations of the same input and dissimilarity for different ones. Although low contrastive loss often correlates with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yunzhe Zhang , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan

Contrastive learning is a well-established paradigm in representation learning. The standard framework of contrastive learning minimizes the distance between "similar" instances and maximizes the distance between dissimilar ones in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Naghmeh Ghanooni , Barbod Pajoum , Harshit Rawal , Sophie Fellenz , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Marius Kloft

Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a powerful technique for representation learning, with or without label supervision. However, supervised CL is prone to collapsing representations of subclasses within a class by not capturing all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yihao Xue , Siddharth Joshi , Eric Gan , Pin-Yu Chen , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Contrastive Learning (CL) is a recent representation learning approach, which encourages inter-class separability and intra-class compactness in learned image representations. Since medical images often contain multiple semantic classes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Prashant Pandey , Ajey Pai , Nisarg Bhatt , Prasenjit Das , Govind Makharia , Prathosh AP , Mausam

Multi-view representation learning has developed rapidly over the past decades and has been applied in many fields. However, most previous works assumed that each view is complete and aligned. This leads to an inevitable deterioration in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Jie Wen , Yao Zhao

Knowledge graph embedding (KGE) aims at learning powerful representations to benefit various artificial intelligence applications. Meanwhile, contrastive learning has been widely leveraged in graph learning as an effective mechanism to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ke Liang , Yue Liu , Sihang Zhou , Wenxuan Tu , Yi Wen , Xihong Yang , Xiangjun Dong , Xinwang Liu

In this work, we propose CLUDA, a simple, yet novel method for performing unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for semantic segmentation by incorporating contrastive losses into a student-teacher learning paradigm, that makes use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Midhun Vayyat , Jaswin Kasi , Anuraag Bhattacharya , Shuaib Ahmed , Rahul Tallamraju

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an efficient framework for compressing large-scale pre-trained language models. Recent years have seen a surge of research aiming to improve KD by leveraging Contrastive Learning, Intermediate Layer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Md Akmal Haidar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Abbas Ghaddar , Khalil Bibi , Philippe Langlais , Pascal Poupart

Humans can recognize an image as an instance of a general concept, beyond simply identifying its objects and their relationships. In this paper, we investigate 1. The extent to which VLMs have this concept abstraction capacity, and 2.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Omri Suissa , Muhiim Ali , Shengmai Chen , Yinuo Cai , Shekhar Pradhan

An increasing number of well-trained deep networks have been released online by researchers and developers, enabling the community to reuse them in a plug-and-play way without accessing the training annotations. However, due to the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Sihui Luo , Xinchao Wang , Gongfan Fang , Yao Hu , Dapeng Tao , Mingli Song