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Convolutional Dictionary Learning (CDL) has emerged as a powerful approach for signal representation by learning translation-invariant features through convolution operations. While existing CDL methods are predominantly designed and used…

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Learning representations for individual instances when only bag-level labels are available is a fundamental challenge in multiple instance learning (MIL). Recent works have shown promising results using contrastive self-supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Kangning Liu , Weicheng Zhu , Yiqiu Shen , Sheng Liu , Narges Razavian , Krzysztof J. Geras , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Medical image segmentation is a critical yet challenging task, primarily due to the difficulty of obtaining extensive datasets of high-quality, expert-annotated images. Contrastive learning presents a potential but still problematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuang Zeng , Lei Zhu , Xinliang Zhang , Hangzhou He , Yanye Lu

Representation learning offers a conduit to elucidate distinctive features within the latent space and interpret the deep models. However, the randomness of lesion distribution and the complexity of low-quality factors in medical images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qingshan Hou , Shuai Cheng , Peng Cao , Jinzhu Yang , Xiaoli Liu , Osmar R. Zaiane , Yih Chung Tham

Contrastive language-image Pre-training (CLIP) [13] can leverage large datasets of unlabeled Image-Text pairs, which have demonstrated impressive performance in various downstream tasks. Given that annotating medical data is time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Yuhao Wang

Multi-label classification (MLC) studies the problem where each instance is associated with multiple relevant labels, which leads to the exponential growth of output space. MLC encourages a popular framework named label compression (LC) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Jiaqi Lv , Tianran Wu , Chenglun Peng , Yunpeng Liu , Ning Xu , Xin Geng

Variational mutual information (MI) estimators are widely used in unsupervised representation learning methods such as contrastive predictive coding (CPC). A lower bound on MI can be obtained from a multi-class classification problem, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon

Multi-label classification (MLC) is a prediction task where each sample can have more than one label. We propose a novel contrastive learning boosted multi-label prediction model based on a Gaussian mixture variational autoencoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Junwen Bai , Shufeng Kong , Carla P. Gomes

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

Partial Multi-label Learning (PML) is a type of weakly supervised learning where each training instance corresponds to a set of candidate labels, among which only some are true. In this paper, we introduce \our{}, a novel probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Łukasz Struski , Adam Pardyl , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

Contrastive learning has emerged as an essential approach for self-supervised learning in visual representation learning. The central objective of contrastive learning is to maximize the similarities between two augmented versions of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hengkui Dong , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li , Lei Chen

Graph-level representations are critical in various real-world applications, such as predicting the properties of molecules. But in practice, precise graph annotations are generally very expensive and time-consuming. To address this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shuai Lin , Pan Zhou , Zi-Yuan Hu , Shuojia Wang , Ruihui Zhao , Yefeng Zheng , Liang Lin , Eric Xing , Xiaodan Liang

Contrastive learning (CL) aims to learn useful representation without relying on expert annotations in the context of medical image segmentation. Existing approaches mainly contrast a single positive vector (i.e., an augmentation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Chenyu You , Ruihan Zhao , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Multimodal learning aims to imitate human beings to acquire complementary information from multiple modalities for various downstream tasks. However, traditional aggregation-based multimodal fusion methods ignore the inter-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Heqing Zou , Meng Shen , Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

Multi-label learning (MLL) requires comprehensive multi-semantic annotations that is hard to fully obtain, thus often resulting in missing labels scenarios. In this paper, we investigate Single Positive Multi-label Learning (SPML), where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yanxi Chen , Chunxiao Li , Xinyang Dai , Jinhuan Li , Weiyu Sun , Yiming Wang , Renyuan Zhang , Tinghe Zhang , Bo Wang

Long-tailed semi-supervised learning poses a significant challenge in training models with limited labeled data exhibiting a long-tailed label distribution. Current state-of-the-art LTSSL approaches heavily rely on high-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zi-Hao Zhou , Siyuan Fang , Zi-Jing Zhou , Tong Wei , Yuanyu Wan , Min-Ling Zhang

The task of multi-label image recognition is to predict a set of object labels that present in an image. As objects normally co-occur in an image, it is desirable to model the label dependencies to improve the recognition performance. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Zhao-Min Chen , Xiu-Shen Wei , Peng Wang , Yanwen Guo

Although significant progress achieved, multi-label classification is still challenging due to the complexity of correlations among different labels. Furthermore, modeling the relationships between input and some (dull) classes further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Junbing Li , Changqing Zhang , Pengfei Zhu , Baoyuan Wu , Lei Chen , Qinghua Hu

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has attracted a surge of attention due to its superior performance for learning node/graph representations without labels. However, in practice, the underlying class distribution of unlabeled nodes for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Liang Zeng , Lanqing Li , Ziqi Gao , Peilin Zhao , Jian Li

Medical image classification has been widely adopted in medical image analysis. However, due to the difficulty of collecting and labeling data in the medical area, medical image datasets are usually highly-imbalanced. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Zhixiong Yang , Junwen Pan , Yanzhan Yang , Xiaozhou Shi , Hong-Yu Zhou , Zhicheng Zhang , Cheng Bian