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Contrast-Consistent Search (CCS) is an unsupervised probing method able to test whether large language models represent binary features, such as sentence truth, in their internal activations. While CCS has shown promise, its two-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Stefan F. Schouten , Peter Bloem

Contrastive losses have long been a key ingredient of deep metric learning and are now becoming more popular due to the success of self-supervised learning. Recent research has shown the benefit of decomposing such losses into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Arnaud Sors , Rafael Sampaio de Rezende , Sarah Ibrahimi , Jean-Marc Andreoli

Contrastive learning is a major studied topic in metric learning. However, sampling effective contrastive pairs remains a challenge due to factors such as limited batch size, imbalanced data distribution, and the risk of overfitting. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Bolun Cai , Pengfei Xiong , Shangxuan Tian

Learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) methods have made impressive progress and surpassed traditional methods in recent years. However, their accuracy and completeness are still struggling. In this paper, we propose a new method to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yikang Ding , Zhenyang Li , Dihe Huang , Zhiheng Li , Kai Zhang

Language models contain ranking-based knowledge and are powerful solvers of in-context ranking tasks. For instance, they may have parametric knowledge about the ordering of countries by size or may be able to rank product reviews by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Niklas Stoehr , Pengxiang Cheng , Jing Wang , Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro , Rajarshi Bhowmik

The learning of domain-invariant representations in the context of domain adaptation with neural networks is considered. We propose a new regularization method that minimizes the discrepancy between domain-specific latent feature…

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, generating high-quality text that balances coherence, diversity, and relevance remains challenging. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jaydip Sen , Rohit Pandey , Hetvi Waghela

Contrastive representation learning has been outstandingly successful in practice. In this work, we identify two key properties related to the contrastive loss: (1) alignment (closeness) of features from positive pairs, and (2) uniformity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Tongzhou Wang , Phillip Isola

The choice of a loss function is a critical part of machine learning. This paper evaluated two different loss functions commonly used in regression-task dimensional speech emotion recognition, an error-based and a correlation-based loss…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Bagus Tris Atmaja , Masato Akagi

Selecting high-quality candidates from large datasets is critical in applications such as drug discovery, precision medicine, and alignment of large language models (LLMs). While Conformal Selection (CS) provides rigorous uncertainty…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-05 Tian Bai , Yue Zhao , Xiang Yu , Archer Y. Yang

This paper proposes a probabilistic contrastive loss function for self-supervised learning. The well-known contrastive loss is deterministic and involves a temperature hyperparameter that scales the inner product between two normed feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shen Li , Jianqing Xu , Bryan Hooi

Large language Model (LLM)-assisted algorithm discovery is an iterative, black-box optimization process over programs to approximatively solve a target task, where an LLM proposes candidate programs and an external evaluator provides task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Timothee Leleu , Sudeera Gunathilaka , Federico Ghimenti , Surya Ganguli

Compressed Sensing (CS) is a novel technique for simultaneous signal sampling and compression based on the existence of a sparse representation of signal and a projected dictionary $PD$, where $P\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times d}$ is the projection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Canyi Lu , Huan Li , Zhouchen Lin

Dataset Condensation (DC) aims to reduce deep neural networks training efforts by synthesizing a small dataset such that it will be as effective as the original large dataset. Conventionally, DC relies on a costly bi-level optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Sahar Rahimi Malakshan , Mohammad Saeed Ebrahimi Saadabadi , Ali Dabouei , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Similarity search in math is to find mathematical expressions that are similar to a user's query. We conceptualized the similarity factors between mathematical expressions, and proposed an approach to math similarity search (MSS) by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Qun Zhang , Abdou Youssef

Similarity metric is crucial for massive MIMO positioning utilizing channel state information~(CSI). In this letter, we propose a novel massive MIMO CSI similarity learning method via deep convolutional neural network~(DCNN) and contrastive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Junquan Deng , Wei Shi , Jianzhao Zhang , Xianyu Zhang , Chuan Zhang

One of the central challenges in the computational analysis of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) data is to identify the compounds underlying the output spectra. In recent years, this problem is increasingly tackled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Gaetan De Waele , Marek Wydmuch , Krzysztof Dembczyński , Wojciech Kotłowski , Willem Waegeman

In contrastive self-supervised learning, the common way to learn discriminative representation is to pull different augmented "views" of the same image closer while pushing all other images further apart, which has been proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Kaiyou Song , Shan Zhang , Zihao An , Zimeng Luo , Tong Wang , Jin Xie

Recent studies have demonstrated that gradient matching-based dataset synthesis, or dataset condensation (DC), methods can achieve state-of-the-art performance when applied to data-efficient learning tasks. However, in this study, we prove…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Saehyung Lee , Sanghyuk Chun , Sangwon Jung , Sangdoo Yun , Sungroh Yoon

Recovering true signals from noisy measurements is a central challenge in inverse problems spanning medical imaging, geophysics, and signal processing. Current methods balance prior signal priors (regularization) with agreement with noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 George Webber , Andrew J. Reader
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