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Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have achieved remarkable success in learning image representations allowing invariances in them - but therefore discarding transformation information that some computer vision tasks actually require.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qin Wang , Alessio Quercia , Benjamin Bruns , Abigail Morrison , Hanno Scharr , Kai Krajsek

Unsupervised representation learning has significantly advanced various machine learning tasks. In the computer vision domain, state-of-the-art approaches utilize transformations like random crop and color jitter to achieve invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jaemyung Yu , Jaehyun Choi , Dong-Jae Lee , HyeongGwon Hong , Junmo Kim

Modern astronomical surveys are producing progressively larger and more complex datasets, making traditional supervised approaches that rely on extensive labelled catalogues increasingly difficult. Consequently, pre-training using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Johnny Joseph Alphonse , Anna M. M. Scaife

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

While contrastive approaches of self-supervised learning (SSL) learn representations by minimizing the distance between two augmented views of the same data point (positive pairs) and maximizing views from different data points (negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yuandong Tian , Xinlei Chen , Surya Ganguli

Semi-supervised learning is sought for leveraging the unlabelled data when labelled data is difficult or expensive to acquire. Deep generative models (e.g., Variational Autoencoder (VAE)) and semisupervised Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Feng Yuan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is able to build latent representations that generalize well to unseen data. However, only a few SSL techniques exist for the online CL setting, where data arrives in small minibatches, the model must comply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giacomo Cignoni , Andrea Cossu , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Joost van de Weijer , Antonio Carta

Recommender systems play a crucial role in tackling the challenge of information overload by delivering personalized recommendations based on individual user preferences. Deep learning techniques, such as RNNs, GNNs, and Transformer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xubin Ren , Wei Wei , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

In this work, we explore Self-supervised Learning (SSL) as an auxiliary task to blend the texture-based local descriptors into feature modelling for efficient face analysis. Combining a primary task and a self-supervised auxiliary task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Shukesh Reddy , Nishit Poddar , Srijan Das , Abhijit Das

With the success of self-supervised learning (SSL), it has become a mainstream paradigm to fine-tune from self-supervised pretrained models to boost the performance on downstream tasks. However, we find that current SSL models suffer severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yun-Hao Cao , Peiqin Sun , Yechang Huang , Jianxin Wu , Shuchang Zhou

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has advanced significantly in visual representation learning, yet comprehensive evaluations of its adversarial robustness remain limited. In this study, we evaluate the adversarial robustness of seven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ömer Veysel Çağatan , Ömer Faruk Tal , M. Emre Gürsoy

Pseudo-labeling is a key component in semi-supervised learning (SSL). It relies on iteratively using the model to generate artificial labels for the unlabeled data to train against. A common property among its various methods is that they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Islam Nassar , Samitha Herath , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Wray Buntine , Gholamreza Haffari

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

Recent successes in self-supervised learning (SSL) model spatial co-occurrences of visual features either by masking portions of an image or by aggressively cropping it. Here, we propose a new way to model spatial co-occurrences by aligning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Arthur Aubret , Céline Teulière , Jochen Triesch

Recently, self-supervised learning has attracted attention due to its remarkable ability to acquire meaningful representations for classification tasks without using semantic labels. This paper introduces a self-supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has become important in current data analysis applications, where the amount of unlabeled data is growing exponentially and user input remains limited by logistics and expense. Constrained clustering, as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Yen-Yun Yu , Shireen Y. Elhabian , Ross T. Whitaker

Self-supervised learning has gained popularity because of its ability to avoid the cost of annotating large-scale datasets. It is capable of adopting self-defined pseudo labels as supervision and use the learned representations for several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ashish Jaiswal , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Mohammad Zaki Zadeh , Debapriya Banerjee , Fillia Makedon

Self-supervised learning excels at learning representations from large amounts of data. At the same time, generative models offer the complementary property of learning information about the underlying data generation process. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Emanuele Sansone , Robin Manhaeve

Self-supervised learning, which learns by constructing artificial labels given only the input signals, has recently gained considerable attention for learning representations with unlabeled datasets, i.e., learning without any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Hankook Lee , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Generative modeling and self-supervised learning have in recent years made great strides towards learning from data in a completely unsupervised way. There is still however an open area of investigation into guiding a neural network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Vaishnavi Patil , Matthew Evanusa , Joseph JaJa