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The effectiveness of contrastive learning in sequential recommendation hinges on the construction of contrastive views, which ideally should be both semantically consistent and diverse. However, most existing CL-based methods rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wei Wang

Math word problem solver requires both precise relation reasoning about quantities in the text and reliable generation for the diverse equation. Current sequence-to-tree or relation extraction methods regard this only from a fixed view,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Wenqi Zhang , Yongliang Shen , Yanna Ma , Xiaoxia Cheng , Zeqi Tan , Qingpeng Nong , Weiming Lu

Learning good representations involves capturing the diverse ways in which data samples relate. Contrastive loss - an objective matching related samples - underlies methods from self-supervised to multimodal learning. Contrastive losses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Vlad Sobal , Mark Ibrahim , Randall Balestriero , Vivien Cabannes , Diane Bouchacourt , Pietro Astolfi , Kyunghyun Cho , Yann LeCun

Recent self-supervised contrastive methods have been able to produce impressive transferable visual representations by learning to be invariant to different data augmentations. However, these methods implicitly assume a particular set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Tete Xiao , Xiaolong Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Trevor Darrell

Contrastive learning, which aims at minimizing the distance between positive pairs while maximizing that of negative ones, has been widely and successfully applied in unsupervised feature learning, where the design of positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Rui Zhu , Bingchen Zhao , Jingen Liu , Zhenglong Sun , Chang Wen Chen

Contrastive representation learning has emerged as a promising technique for continual learning as it can learn representations that are robust to catastrophic forgetting and generalize well to unseen future tasks. Previous work in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Rouzbeh Meshkinnejad , Jie Mei , Daniel Lizotte , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Contrastive learning is a well-established paradigm in representation learning. The standard framework of contrastive learning minimizes the distance between "similar" instances and maximizes the distance between dissimilar ones in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Naghmeh Ghanooni , Barbod Pajoum , Harshit Rawal , Sophie Fellenz , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Marius Kloft

Contrastive learning methods have been applied to a range of domains and modalities by training models to identify similar "views" of data points. However, specialized scientific modalities pose a challenge for this paradigm, as identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jasmine Bayrooti , Noah Goodman , Alex Tamkin

Contrastive self-supervised learning has outperformed supervised pretraining on many downstream tasks like segmentation and object detection. However, current methods are still primarily applied to curated datasets like ImageNet. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Luc Van Gool

Recent self-supervised representation learning techniques have largely closed the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning on ImageNet classification. While the particulars of pretraining on ImageNet are now relatively well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Elijah Cole , Xuan Yang , Kimberly Wilber , Oisin Mac Aodha , Serge Belongie

Contrastive representation learning has been recently proved to be very efficient for self-supervised training. These methods have been successfully used to train encoders which perform comparably to supervised training on downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ibrahim Merad , Yiyang Yu , Emmanuel Bacry , Stéphane Gaïffas

Contrastive learning is a popular form of self-supervised learning that encourages augmentations (views) of the same input to have more similar representations compared to augmentations of different inputs. Recent attempts to theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikunj Saunshi , Jordan Ash , Surbhi Goel , Dipendra Misra , Cyril Zhang , Sanjeev Arora , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy

Contrastive learning -- a modern approach to extract useful representations from unlabeled data by training models to distinguish similar samples from dissimilar ones -- has driven significant progress in foundation models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Licong Lin , Song Mei

Recent works have advanced the performance of self-supervised representation learning by a large margin. The core among these methods is intra-image invariance learning. Two different transformations of one image instance are considered as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Haiping Wu , Xiaolong Wang

In this paper, we study contrastive learning from an optimization perspective, aiming to analyze and address a fundamental issue of existing contrastive learning methods that either rely on a large batch size or a large dictionary of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Zhuoning Yuan , Yuexin Wu , Zi-Hao Qiu , Xianzhi Du , Lijun Zhang , Denny Zhou , Tianbao Yang

Contrastive learning predicts whether two images belong to the same category by training a model to make their feature representations as close or as far away as possible. In this paper, we rethink how to mine samples in contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Hengkui Dong , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li

Contrastive learning relies on constructing a collection of negative examples that are sufficiently hard to discriminate against positive queries when their representations are self-trained. Existing contrastive learning methods either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Qianjiang Hu , Xiao Wang , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

Noise contrastive learning is a popular technique for unsupervised representation learning. In this approach, a representation is obtained via reduction to supervised learning, where given a notion of semantic similarity, the learner tries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jordan T. Ash , Surbhi Goel , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Dipendra Misra

Self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in representation learning by minimizing the distance between positive pairs while maximizing that of negative ones. Recently, it has been verified that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jin-Young Kim , Soonwoo Kwon , Hyojun Go , Yunsung Lee , Seungtaek Choi , Hyun-Gyoon Kim

Contrastive learning is a powerful framework for learning self-supervised representations that generalize well to downstream supervised tasks. We show that multiple existing contrastive learning methods can be reinterpreted as learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Daniel D. Johnson , Ayoub El Hanchi , Chris J. Maddison