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Contrastive learning-based recommendation algorithms have significantly advanced the field of self-supervised recommendation, particularly with BPR as a representative ranking prediction task that dominates implicit collaborative filtering.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shipeng Song , Bin Liu , Fei Teng , Tianrui Li

Contrastive learning (CL) has recently been applied to adversarial learning tasks. Such practice considers adversarial samples as additional positive views of an instance, and by maximizing their agreements with each other, yields better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Qiying Yu , Jieming Lou , Xianyuan Zhan , Qizhang Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Yang Liu , Jingjing Liu

The information noise-contrastive estimation (InfoNCE) loss function provides the basis of many self-supervised deep learning methods due to its strong empirical results and theoretic motivation. Previous work suggests a supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Patrick Feeney , Michael C. Hughes

Contrastive Learning (CL), a leading paradigm in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), typically relies on pairs of data views generated through augmentation. While multiple augmentations per instance (more than two) improve generalization in…

Contrastive learning has demonstrated promising potential in recommender systems. Existing methods typically construct sparser views by randomly perturbing the original interaction graph, as they have no idea about the authentic user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Xufeng Liang , Zhida Qin , Chong Zhang , Tianyu Huang , Gangyi Ding

Contrastive learning (CL) is a popular technique for self-supervised learning (SSL) of visual representations. It uses pairs of augmentations of unlabeled training examples to define a classification task for pretext learning of a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Chih-Hui Ho , Nuno Vasconcelos

Learning from noisy labels is a critical challenge in machine learning, with vast implications for numerous real-world scenarios. While supervised contrastive learning has recently emerged as a powerful tool for navigating label noise, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jingyi Cui , Yi-Ge Zhang , Hengyu Liu , Yisen Wang

Modern recommendation systems fuse user behavior graphs and review texts but often encounter a "Fusion Gap" caused by False Negatives, Popularity Bias, and Signal Ambiguity. We propose SymCERE (Symmetric NCE), a contrastive learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Toyotaro Suzumura , Hisashi Ikari , Hiroki Kanezashi , Md Mostafizur Rahman , Yu Hirate

This paper explores useful modifications of the recent development in contrastive learning via novel probabilistic modeling. We derive a particular form of contrastive loss named Joint Contrastive Learning (JCL). JCL implicitly involves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qi Cai , Yu Wang , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Loss functions play a pivotal role in optimizing recommendation models. Among various loss functions, Softmax Loss (SL) and Cosine Contrastive Loss (CCL) are particularly effective. Their theoretical connections and differences warrant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Shengjia Zhang , Jiawei Chen , Changdong Li , Sheng Zhou , Qihao Shi , Yan Feng , Chun Chen , Can Wang

Deep learning systems have been reported to achieve state-of-the-art performances in many applications, and a key is the existence of well trained classifiers on benchmark datasets. As a main-stream loss function, the cross entropy can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Jirong Yi , Qiaosheng Zhang , Zhen Chen , Qiao Liu , Wei Shao

In contemporary self-supervised contrastive algorithms like SimCLR, MoCo, etc., the task of balancing attraction between two semantically similar samples and repulsion between two samples of different classes is primarily affected by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Siladittya Manna , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Rakesh Dey , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal

Data augmentation is a crucial component in unsupervised contrastive learning (CL). It determines how positive samples are defined and, ultimately, the quality of the learned representation. In this work, we open the door to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Benoit Dufumier , Carlo Alberto Barbano , Robin Louiset , Edouard Duchesnay , Pietro Gori

In typical multimodal contrastive learning, such as CLIP, encoders produce one point in the latent representation space for each input. However, one-point representation has difficulty in capturing the relationship and the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Toshimitsu Uesaka , Taiji Suzuki , Yuhta Takida , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Naoki Murata , Yuki Mitsufuji

The deep convolutional neural network(CNN) has significantly raised the performance of image classification and face recognition. Softmax is usually used as supervision, but it only penalizes the classification loss. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Ce Qi , Fei Su

Binary pointwise labels (aka implicit feedback) are heavily leveraged by deep learning based recommendation algorithms nowadays. In this paper we discuss the limited expressiveness of these labels may fail to accommodate varying degrees of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Menghan Wang , Yuchen Guo , Zhenqi Zhao , Guangzheng Hu , Yuming Shen , Mingming Gong , Philip Torr

There is a rapidly-growing research interest in engaging users with multi-modal data for accurate user modeling on recommender systems. Existing multimedia recommenders have achieved substantial improvements by incorporating various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Dong Yao , Shengyu Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Jieming Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Rui Zhang , Xiaofei He , Fei Wu

Representation learning methods utilizing the InfoNCE loss have demonstrated considerable capacity in reducing human annotation effort by training invariant neural feature extractors. Although different variants of the training objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hanyang Chen , Yanchao Yang

Bias is a common problem inherent in recommender systems, which is entangled with users' preferences and poses a great challenge to unbiased learning. For debiasing tasks, the doubly robust (DR) method and its variants show superior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Haoxuan Li , Yan Lyu , Chunyuan Zheng , Peng Wu

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial area of research in online advertising. While binary cross entropy (BCE) has been widely used as the optimization objective for treating CTR prediction as a binary classification problem,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhutian Lin , Junwei Pan , Shangyu Zhang , Ximei Wang , Xi Xiao , Shudong Huang , Lei Xiao , Jie Jiang