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Most recent self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms learn features by contrasting between instances of images or by clustering the images and then contrasting between the image clusters. We introduce a simple mean-shift algorithm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Ajinkya Tejankar , Hamed Pirsiavash

This paper introduces MixDiff, a new self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training framework that combines real and synthetic images. Unlike traditional SSL methods that predominantly use real images, MixDiff uses a variant of Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Reza Akbarian Bafghi , Nidhin Harilal , Claire Monteleoni , Maziar Raissi

Self-supervised learning (SSL), in particular contrastive learning, has made great progress in recent years. However, a common theme in these methods is that they inherit the learning paradigm from the supervised deep learning scenario.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yun-Hao Cao , Jianxin Wu

We develop biologically plausible training mechanisms for self-supervised learning (SSL) in deep networks. Specifically, by biological plausible training we mean (i) All updates of weights are based on current activities of pre-synaptic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Mufeng Tang , Yibo Yang , Yali Amit

Deep learning has proven to be a very effective approach for Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification. However, deep neural networks require large annotated datasets to generalize well. This limits the applicability of deep learning for HSI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nassim Ait Ali Braham , Lichao Mou , Jocelyn Chanussot , Julien Mairal , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Self-supervised learning (especially contrastive learning) has attracted great interest due to its huge potential in learning discriminative representations in an unsupervised manner. Despite the acknowledged successes, existing contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Guangrun Wang , Keze Wang , Guangcong Wang , Philip H. S. Torr , Liang Lin

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) addresses the lack of labeled data by exploiting large unlabeled data through pseudolabeling. However, in the extremely low-label regime, pseudo labels could be incorrect, a.k.a. the confirmation bias, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Xun Xu , Jingyi Liao , Lile Cai , Manh Cuong Nguyen , Kangkang Lu , Wanyue Zhang , Yasin Yazici , Chuan Sheng Foo

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) has shown its strong ability in utilizing unlabeled data when labeled data is scarce. However, most SSL algorithms work under the assumption that the class distributions are balanced in both training and test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ju He , Adam Kortylewski , Shaokang Yang , Shuai Liu , Cheng Yang , Changhu Wang , Alan Yuille

Models initialized from self-supervised pretraining may suffer from poor alignment with downstream tasks, reducing the extent to which subsequent fine-tuning can adapt pretrained features toward downstream objectives. To mitigate this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Gustav Wagner Zakarias , Lars Kai Hansen , Zheng-Hua Tan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable success by learning meaningful representations without labeled data. However, a unified theoretical framework for understanding and comparing the efficiency of different SSL paradigms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Di Zhang

Traditional semi-supervised learning (SSL) assumes that the feature distributions of labeled and unlabeled data are consistent which rarely holds in realistic scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel SSL setting, where unlabeled samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jiachen Liang , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have become a dominant paradigm for creating general purpose models whose capabilities can be transferred to downstream supervised learning tasks. However, most such methods rely on vast amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lakshay Sharma , Alex Marin

Self-supervised learning algorithms (SSL) based on instance discrimination have shown promising results, performing competitively or even outperforming supervised learning counterparts in some downstream tasks. Such approaches employ data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mohammad Alkhalefi , Georgios Leontidis , Mingjun Zhong

In this work we examine how fine-tuning impacts the fairness of contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models. Our findings indicate that Batch Normalization (BN) statistics play a crucial role, and that updating only the BN statistics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jason Ramapuram , Dan Busbridge , Russ Webb

The fundamental goal of self-supervised learning (SSL) is to produce useful representations of data without access to any labels for classifying the data. Modern methods in SSL, which form representations based on known or constructed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Bobak T. Kiani , Randall Balestriero , Yubei Chen , Seth Lloyd , Yann LeCun

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) has been proved to be an effective way to leverage both labeled and unlabeled data at the same time. Recent semi-supervised approaches focus on deep neural networks and have achieved promising results on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Hong-Yu Zhou , Avital Oliver , Jianxin Wu , Yefeng Zheng

Self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to eliminate one of the major bottlenecks in representation learning - the need for human annotations. As a result, SSL holds the promise to learn representations from data in-the-wild, i.e., without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Senthil Purushwalkam , Pedro Morgado , Abhinav Gupta

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a scalable way to learn general visual representations since it learns without labels. However, large-scale unlabeled datasets in the wild often have long-tailed label distributions, where we know little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Hong Liu , Jeff Z. HaoChen , Adrien Gaidon , Tengyu Ma

Self-supervised representation learning (SSL) methods provide an effective label-free initial condition for fine-tuning downstream tasks. However, in numerous realistic scenarios, the downstream task might be biased with respect to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Andrius Ovsianas , Jason Ramapuram , Dan Busbridge , Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane , Russ Webb

While few-shot learning (FSL) aims for rapid generalization to new concepts with little supervision, self-supervised learning (SSL) constructs supervisory signals directly computed from unlabeled data. Exploiting the complementarity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhengyu Chen , Jixie Ge , Heshen Zhan , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang