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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

This paper introduces MixDiff, a new self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training framework that combines real and synthetic images. Unlike traditional SSL methods that predominantly use real images, MixDiff uses a variant of Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Reza Akbarian Bafghi , Nidhin Harilal , Claire Monteleoni , Maziar Raissi

Recent generative data augmentation methods conditioned on both image and text prompts struggle to balance between fidelity and diversity, as it is challenging to preserve essential image details while aligning with varied text prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tianchen Zhao , Xuanbai Chen , Zhihua Li , Jun Fang , Dongsheng An , Xiang Xu , Zhuowen Tu , Yifan Xing

Self-supervised learning (SSL) frameworks consist of pretext task, and loss function aiming to learn useful general features from unlabeled data. The basic idea of most SSL baselines revolves around enforcing the invariance to a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Salman Mohamadi , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh

Ensembling has proven to be a powerful technique for boosting model performance, uncertainty estimation, and robustness in supervised learning. Advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) enable leveraging large unlabeled corpora for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yangjun Ruan , Saurabh Singh , Warren Morningstar , Alexander A. Alemi , Sergey Ioffe , Ian Fischer , Joshua V. Dillon

Recent advances in generative deep learning have enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic images in text-to-image generation. Prior work shows that fine-tuning a pretrained diffusion model on ImageNet and generating synthetic training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhuoran Yu , Chenchen Zhu , Sean Culatana , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Fanyi Xiao , Yong Jae Lee

Reconstruction and joint embedding have emerged as two leading paradigms in Self Supervised Learning (SSL). Reconstruction methods focus on recovering the original sample from a different view in input space. On the other hand, joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hugues Van Assel , Mark Ibrahim , Tommaso Biancalani , Aviv Regev , Randall Balestriero

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 (SSL) has emerged as a powerful technique for learning rich representations from unlabeled data. The data representations are able to capture many underlying attributes of data, and be useful in downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Weicheng Zhu , Sheng Liu , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Narges Razavian

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 medical image segmentation, supervised deep networks' success comes at the cost of requiring abundant labeled data. While asking domain experts to annotate only one or a few of the cohort's images is feasible, annotating all available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Devavrat Tomar , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Manana Lortkipanidze , Guillaume Vray , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning flexible speech representations from unlabeled data. By designing pretext tasks that exploit statistical regularities, SSL models can capture useful…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yusuf Brima , Ulf Krumnack , Simone Pika , Gunther Heidemann

Recent state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods use a combination of image-based transformations and consistency regularization as core components. Such methods, however, are limited to simple transformations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Chia-Wen Kuo , Chih-Yao Ma , Jia-Bin Huang , Zsolt Kira

Self-supervised representation learning~(SSRL) has advanced considerably by exploiting the transformation invariance assumption under artificially designed data augmentations. While augmentation-based SSRL algorithms push the boundaries of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yi Sui , Tongzi Wu , Jesse C. Cresswell , Ga Wu , George Stein , Xiao Shi Huang , Xiaochen Zhang , Maksims Volkovs

Self-supervised learned models have been found to be very effective for certain speech tasks such as automatic speech recognition, speaker identification, keyword spotting and others. While the features are undeniably useful in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Ravi Shankar , Ke Tan , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar

The success of deep learning in medical imaging is mostly achieved at the cost of a large labeled data set. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a promising solution by leveraging the structure of unlabeled data to improve learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Prashnna Kumar Gyawali , Zhiyuan Li , Sandesh Ghimire , Linwei Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful technique for learning from unlabeled data. By learning to remain invariant to applied data augmentations, methods such as SimCLR and MoCo can reach quality on par with supervised approaches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Marcin Przewięźlikowski , Mateusz Pyla , Bartosz Zieliński , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Jacek Tabor , Marek Śmieja

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

A major limitation in applying deep learning to artificial intelligence (AI) systems is the scarcity of high-quality curated datasets. We investigate strong augmentation based self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques to address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 John D. Miller , Vignesh A. Arasu , Albert X. Pu , Laurie R. Margolies , Weiva Sieh , Li Shen

This paper introduces a cutting-edge method for enhancing recommender systems through the integration of generative self-supervised learning (SSL) with a Residual Graph Transformer. Our approach emphasizes the importance of superior data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Eya Mhedhbi , Youssef Mourchid , Alice Othmani