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Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) has attracted increasing attention for model pre-training via unlabeled data. The resulted CSL models provide instance-discriminative visual features that are uniformly scattered in the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yifan Zhang , Bryan Hooi , Dapeng Hu , Jian Liang , Jiashi Feng

Semi-supervised learning has been an effective paradigm for leveraging unlabeled data to reduce the reliance on labeled data. We propose CoMatch, a new semi-supervised learning method that unifies dominant approaches and addresses their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Junnan Li , Caiming Xiong , Steven Hoi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) provides a promising alternative for representation learning on hypergraphs without costly labels. However, existing hypergraph SSL models are mostly based on contrastive methods with the instance-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Fan Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Dawei Cheng , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Most existing self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches for 3D point clouds are dominated by generative methods based on Masked Autoencoders (MAE). However, these generative methods have been proven to struggle to capture high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shaofeng Zhang , Xuanqi Chen , Xiangdong Zhang , Sitong Wu , Junchi Yan

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated high performance in image classification tasks by effectively utilizing both labeled and unlabeled data. However, existing SSL methods often suffer from poor calibration, with models yielding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mehrab Mustafy Rahman , Jayanth Mohan , Tiberiu Sosea , Cornelia Caragea

Learning visual representation of high quality is essential for image classification. Recently, a series of contrastive representation learning methods have achieved preeminent success. Particularly, SupCon outperformed the dominant methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Sungho Park , Jewook Lee , Pilhyeon Lee , Sunhee Hwang , Dohyung Kim , Hyeran Byun

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on downstream tasks through in-context learning (ICL), which heavily relies on the demonstrations selected from annotated datasets. However, these datasets often exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hongfu Gao , Feipeng Zhang , Hao Zeng , Deyu Meng , Bingyi Jing , Hongxin Wei

Given an unlabeled dataset and an annotation budget, we study how to selectively label a fixed number of instances so that semi-supervised learning (SSL) on such a partially labeled dataset is most effective. We focus on selecting the right…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xudong Wang , Long Lian , Stella X. Yu

An ideal learned representation should display transferability and robustness. Supervised contrastive learning (SupCon) is a promising method for training accurate models, but produces representations that do not capture these properties…

Self-supervised learning has achieved a great success in the representation learning of visual and textual data. However, the current methods are mainly validated on the well-curated datasets, which do not exhibit the real-world long-tailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Zhihan Zhou , Jiangchao Yao , Yanfeng Wang , Bo Han , Ya Zhang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been proven beneficial for mitigating the issue of limited labeled data especially on the task of volumetric medical image segmentation. Unlike previous SSL methods which focus on exploring highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Qingjie Zeng , Yutong Xie , Zilin Lu , Mengkang Lu , Yong Xia

We present a self-supervised learning (SSL) method suitable for semi-global tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. We enforce local consistency between self-learned features, representing corresponding image locations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ashraful Islam , Ben Lundell , Harpreet Sawhney , Sudipta Sinha , Peter Morales , Richard J. Radke

Contrastive self supervised learning(CSSL) usually makes use of the multi-view assumption which states that all relevant information must be shared between all views. The main objective of CSSL is to maximize the mutual information(MI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yash Kumar Sharma , Vineet Padmanabhan

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable advancements in various fields using large, well-annotated datasets. However, real-world data often exhibit long-tailed distributions and label noise, significantly degrading generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jae Soon Baik , In Young Yoon , Kun Hoon Kim , Jun Won Choi

The core issue in semi-supervised learning (SSL) lies in how to effectively leverage unlabeled data, whereas most existing methods tend to put a great emphasis on the utilization of high-confidence samples yet seldom fully explore the usage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yue Duan , Zhen Zhao , Lei Qi , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

In the case of an imbalance between positive and negative samples, hard negative mining strategies have been shown to help models learn more subtle differences between positive and negative samples, thus improving recognition performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Jiahan Zhang , Dayong Tian

Self supervised learning (SSL) has become a very successful technique to harness the power of unlabeled data, with no annotation effort. A number of developed approaches are evolving with the goal of outperforming supervised alternatives,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Salman Mohamadi , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh

Recent years have witnessed many successful applications of contrastive learning in diverse domains, yet its self-supervised version still remains many exciting challenges. As the negative samples are drawn from unlabeled datasets, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Bin Liu , Bang Wang , Tianrui Li

Contrastive learning has gained popularity and pushes state-of-the-art performance across numerous large-scale benchmarks. In contrastive learning, the contrastive loss function plays a pivotal role in discerning similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haojin Deng , Yimin Yang

Cross-age facial images are typically challenging and expensive to collect, making noise-free age-oriented datasets relatively small compared to widely-used large-scale facial datasets. Additionally, in real scenarios, images of the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Haoyi Wang , Victor Sanchez , Chang-Tsun Li