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Contrastive learning (CL) has become a powerful approach for learning representations from unlabeled images. However, existing CL methods focus predominantly on visual appearance features while neglecting topological characteristics (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guangyu Meng , Pengfei Gu , Peixian Liang , John P. Lalor , Erin Wolf Chambers , Danny Z. Chen

Supervised contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success by leveraging label information; however, determining positive samples in multi-label scenarios remains a critical challenge. In multi-label supervised contrastive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Guangming Huang , Yunfei Long , Cunjin Luo

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

This paper addresses the problem of Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE). Existing approaches on MDE usually model it as a pixel-level regression problem, ignoring the underlying geometry property. We empirically find this may result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Yixuan Liu , Yuwang Wang , Shengjin Wang

The success of contrastive learning depends on the construction and utilization of high-quality positive pairs. However, current methods face critical limitations on two fronts: on the construction side, both handcrafted and generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaojie Li , Bei Wang , Wei Liu , Jianlong Wu , Yue Yu , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

In this paper, we propose the $K$-Shot Contrastive Learning (KSCL) of visual features by applying multiple augmentations to investigate the sample variations within individual instances. It aims to combine the advantages of inter-instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Haohang Xu , Hongkai Xiong , Guo-Jun Qi

Contrastive learning relies on constructing a collection of negative examples that are sufficiently hard to discriminate against positive queries when their representations are self-trained. Existing contrastive learning methods either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Qianjiang Hu , Xiao Wang , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

The effectiveness of contrastive learning technology in natural language processing tasks is yet to be explored and analyzed. How to construct positive and negative samples correctly and reasonably is the core challenge of contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Nankai Lin , Guanqiu Qin , Jigang Wang , Aimin Yang , Dong Zhou

Contrastive learning between multiple views of the data has recently achieved state of the art performance in the field of self-supervised representation learning. Despite its success, the influence of different view choices has been less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Yonglong Tian , Chen Sun , Ben Poole , Dilip Krishnan , Cordelia Schmid , Phillip Isola

For anomaly detection (AD), early approaches often train separate models for individual classes, yielding high performance but posing challenges in scalability and resource management. Recent efforts have shifted toward training a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Lei Fan , Junjie Huang , Donglin Di , Anyang Su , Tianyou Song , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

Multi-prompt learning methods have emerged as an effective approach for facilitating the rapid adaptation of vision-language models to downstream tasks with limited resources. Existing multi-prompt learning methods primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Fei Song , Yi Li , Jiangmeng Li , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng , Fanjiang Xu , Hui Xiong

Existed pre-training methods either focus on single-modal tasks or multi-modal tasks, and cannot effectively adapt to each other. They can only utilize single-modal data (i.e. text or image) or limited multi-modal data (i.e. image-text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Wei Li , Can Gao , Guocheng Niu , Xinyan Xiao , Hao Liu , Jiachen Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Contrastive learning (CL) has recently emerged as an effective approach to learning representation in a range of downstream tasks. Central to this approach is the selection of positive (similar) and negative (dissimilar) sets to provide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Seyit Camtepe , Dinh Phung

The impressive performance of GPT-3 using natural language prompts and in-context learning has inspired work on better fine-tuning of moderately-sized models under this paradigm. Following this line of work, we present a contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yiren Jian , Chongyang Gao , Soroush Vosoughi

In recent years, a variety of contrastive learning based unsupervised visual representation learning methods have been designed and achieved great success in many visual tasks. Generally, these methods can be roughly classified into four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wenbin Li , Meihao Kong , Xuesong Yang , Lei Wang , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

For years, adversarial training has been extensively studied in natural language processing (NLP) settings. The main goal is to make models robust so that similar inputs derive in semantically similar outcomes, which is not a trivial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Daniela N. Rim , DongNyeong Heo , Heeyoul Choi

This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

Visual recognition is recently learned via either supervised learning on human-annotated image-label data or language-image contrastive learning with webly-crawled image-text pairs. While supervised learning may result in a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Bin Xiao , Ce Liu , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

In response to an object presentation, supervised learning schemes generally respond with a parsimonious label. Upon a similar presentation we humans respond again with a label, but are flooded, in addition, by a myriad of associations. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Daniel N. Nissani

Counterfactually Augmented Data (CAD) involves creating new data samples by applying minimal yet sufficient modifications to flip the label of existing data samples to other classes. Training with CAD enhances model robustness against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xiaoqi Qiu , Yongjie Wang , Xu Guo , Zhiwei Zeng , Yue Yu , Yuhong Feng , Chunyan Miao