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Contrastive learning has emerged as a transformative method for learning effective visual representations through the alignment of image and text embeddings. However, pairwise similarity computation in contrastive loss between image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Sachin Mehta , Maxwell Horton , Fartash Faghri , Mohammad Hossein Sekhavat , Mahyar Najibi , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Oncel Tuzel , Mohammad Rastegari

Semi-supervised learning acts as an effective way to leverage massive unlabeled data. In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy, termed as Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning (SsCL), which combines the well-known contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yuhang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Robert. C. Qiu , Jie Li , Haohang Xu , Qi Tian

Contrastive learning has proven useful in many applications where access to labelled data is limited. The lack of annotated data is particularly problematic in medical image segmentation as it is difficult to have clinical experts manually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Mohamed Saeed , Rand Muhtaseb , Mohammad Yaqub

Learning good representations involves capturing the diverse ways in which data samples relate. Contrastive loss - an objective matching related samples - underlies methods from self-supervised to multimodal learning. Contrastive losses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Vlad Sobal , Mark Ibrahim , Randall Balestriero , Vivien Cabannes , Diane Bouchacourt , Pietro Astolfi , Kyunghyun Cho , Yann LeCun

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of learning to retrieve short snippets of sheet music (images) when given a short query excerpt of music (audio) -- and vice versa --, without any symbolic representation of music or scores. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Matthias Dorfer , Andreas Arzt , Gerhard Widmer

Self-supervised pre-training methods based on contrastive learning or regression tasks can utilize more unlabeled data to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the robustness impact of combining the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Qiu-Shi Zhu , Long Zhou , Jie Zhang , Shu-Jie Liu , Yu-Chen Hu , Li-Rong Dai

Upscaled video detection is a helpful tool in multimedia forensics, but it is a challenging task that involves various upscaling and compression algorithms. There are many resolution-enhancement methods, including interpolation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Ivan Molodetskikh , Dmitriy Vatolin

Standard fine-tuning of pre-trained audio models couples representation learning with classifier training, which can obscure the true quality of the learned representations. In this work, we advocate for a disentangled two-stage framework…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yang Wang , Qibin Liang , Chenghao Xiao , Yizhi Li , Noura Al Moubayed , Chenghua Lin

Self-supervised learning for depth estimation possesses several advantages over supervised learning. The benefits of no need for ground-truth depth, online fine-tuning, and better generalization with unlimited data attract researchers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Weihao Yuan , Yazhan Zhang , Bingkun Wu , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen

Deep neural network-based classifiers trained with the categorical cross-entropy (CCE) loss are sensitive to label noise in the training data. One common type of method that can mitigate the impact of label noise can be viewed as supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Aritra Ghosh , Andrew Lan

Unsupervised learning has made substantial progress over the last few years, especially by means of contrastive self-supervised learning. The dominating dataset for benchmarking self-supervised learning has been ImageNet, for which recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Karin Stacke , Jonas Unger , Claes Lundström , Gabriel Eilertsen

Self-supervised learning holds promise in leveraging large numbers of unlabeled data. However, its success heavily relies on the highly-curated dataset, e.g., ImageNet, which still needs human cleaning. Directly learning representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Meilin Chen , Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Feng Zhu , Haiyang Yang , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao , Donglian Qi , Wanli Ouyang

Supervised learning can improve the design of state-of-the-art solvers for combinatorial problems, but labelling large numbers of combinatorial instances is often impractical due to exponential worst-case complexity. Inspired by the recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Haonan Duan , Pashootan Vaezipoor , Max B. Paulus , Yangjun Ruan , Chris J. Maddison

State-of-the-art natural language understanding classification models follow two-stages: pre-training a large language model on an auxiliary task, and then fine-tuning the model on a task-specific labeled dataset using cross-entropy loss.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Beliz Gunel , Jingfei Du , Alexis Conneau , Ves Stoyanov

Recent progress in pretrained Transformer-based language models has shown great success in learning contextual representation of text. However, due to the quadratic self-attention complexity, most of the pretrained Transformers models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Peng Xu , Xinchi Chen , Xiaofei Ma , Zhiheng Huang , Bing Xiang

Webly supervised learning has attracted increasing attention for its effectiveness in exploring publicly accessible data at scale without manual annotation. However, most existing methods of learning with web datasets are faced with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yulei Qin , Xingyu Chen , Yunhang Shen , Chaoyou Fu , Yun Gu , Ke Li , Xing Sun , Rongrong Ji

Music similarity retrieval is fundamental for managing and exploring relevant content from large collections in streaming platforms. This paper presents a novel cross-modal contrastive learning framework that leverages the open-ended nature…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Tristan Tsoi , Jiajun Deng , Yaolong Ju , Benno Weck , Holger Kirchhoff , Simon Lui

Unsupervised contrastive learning has shown significant performance improvements in recent years, often approaching or even rivaling supervised learning in various tasks. However, its learning mechanism is fundamentally different from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yi-Ge Zhang , Jingyi Cui , Qiran Li , Yisen Wang

Recent literature in self-supervised has demonstrated significant progress in closing the gap between supervised and unsupervised methods in the image and text domains. These methods rely on domain-specific augmentations that are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Sajad Darabi , Shayan Fazeli , Ali Pazoki , Sriram Sankararaman , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Long-term forecasting presents unique challenges due to the time and memory complexity of handling long sequences. Existing methods, which rely on sliding windows to process long sequences, struggle to effectively capture long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junwoo Park , Daehoon Gwak , Jaegul Choo , Edward Choi