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Despite its empirical success, the theoretical foundations of self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) are not yet fully established. In this work, we address this gap by showing that standard CL objectives implicitly approximate a…

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Deep neural networks have been widely used in communication signal recognition and achieved remarkable performance, but this superiority typically depends on using massive examples for supervised learning, whereas training a deep neural…

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Deep learning models trained in a supervised setting have revolutionized audio and speech processing. However, their performance inherently depends on the quantity of human-annotated data, making them costly to scale and prone to poor…

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Contrastive Self-supervised Learning (CSL) is a practical solution that learns meaningful visual representations from massive data in an unsupervised approach. The ordinary CSL embeds the features extracted from neural networks onto…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Shentong Mo , Zhun Sun , Chao Li

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an indispensable tool when there are few labeled entities and many unlabeled entities for which we want to predict labels. With graph-based methods, entities correspond to nodes in a graph and edges…

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Self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) has achieved remarkable empirical success, often producing representations that rival supervised pre-training on downstream tasks. Recent theory explains this by showing that the CL loss closely…

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Deep learning models for non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) tend to require a large amount of labeled data for training. However, it is difficult to generalize the trained models to unseen sites due to different load characteristics and…

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Self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms have emerged as powerful tools that can leverage large quantities of unlabeled audio data to pre-train robust representations that support strong performance on diverse downstream tasks. Up to now…

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Designing learning-based no-reference (NR) video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms for camera-captured videos is cumbersome due to the requirement of a large number of human annotations of quality. In this work, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Shankhanil Mitra , Saiyam Jogani , Rajiv Soundararajan

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) has recently received significant attention due to its ability to train high-performance encoders purely on unlabeled data-often scraped from the internet. This data can still be sensitive and empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Wenhao Wang , Muhammad Ahmad Kaleem , Adam Dziedzic , Michael Backes , Nicolas Papernot , Franziska Boenisch

Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a powerful technique for representation learning, with or without label supervision. However, supervised CL is prone to collapsing representations of subclasses within a class by not capturing all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yihao Xue , Siddharth Joshi , Eric Gan , Pin-Yu Chen , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) seeks to leverage large amounts of non-annotated data along with the smallest amount possible of annotated data in order to achieve the same level of performance as if all data were annotated. A fruitful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Nikolaos Karaliolios , Hervé Le Borgne , Florian Chabot

We propose a novel theoretical framework to understand contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) methods that employ dual pairs of deep ReLU networks (e.g., SimCLR). First, we prove that in each SGD update of SimCLR with various loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yuandong Tian , Lantao Yu , Xinlei Chen , Surya Ganguli

In this study, a novel self-supervised learning (SSL) method is proposed, which considers SSL in terms of variational inference to learn not only representation but also representation uncertainties. SSL is a method of learning…

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Learning visual representations through self-supervision is an extremely challenging task as the network needs to sieve relevant patterns from spurious distractors without the active guidance provided by supervision. This is achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Fatemeh Saleh , Fuwen Tan , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

While semi-supervised learning (SSL) has received tremendous attentions in many machine learning tasks due to its successful use of unlabeled data, existing SSL algorithms use either all unlabeled examples or the unlabeled examples with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yi Xu , Lei Shang , Jinxing Ye , Qi Qian , Yu-Feng Li , Baigui Sun , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Although supervised learning has been highly successful in improving the state-of-the-art in the domain of image-based computer vision in the past, the margin of improvement has diminished significantly in recent years, indicating that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Utku Ozbulak , Hyun Jung Lee , Beril Boga , Esla Timothy Anzaku , Homin Park , Arnout Van Messem , Wesley De Neve , Joris Vankerschaver

The representation learning problem in the oil & gas industry aims to construct a model that provides a representation based on logging data for a well interval. Previous attempts are mainly supervised and focus on similarity task, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Alexander Marusov , Alexey Zaytsev

Sign language is the primary communication language for people with disabling hearing loss. Sign language recognition (SLR) systems aim to recognize sign gestures and translate them into spoken language. One of the main challenges in SLR is…

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