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Hierarchical Text Classification (HTC) is a natural language processing task with the objective to classify text documents into a set of classes from a structured class hierarchy. Many HTC approaches have been proposed which attempt to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jaco du Toit , Herman Redelinghuys , Marcel Dunaiski

State-of-the-art model for zero-shot cross-lingual spoken language understanding performs cross-lingual unsupervised contrastive learning to achieve the label-agnostic semantic alignment between each utterance and its code-switched data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Bowen Xing , Ivor W. Tsang

Hierarchical semantic structures naturally exist in an image dataset, in which several semantically relevant image clusters can be further integrated into a larger cluster with coarser-grained semantics. Capturing such structures with image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yuanfan Guo , Minghao Xu , Jiawen Li , Bingbing Ni , Xuanyu Zhu , Zhenbang Sun , Yi Xu

Learning semantic-rich representations from raw unlabeled time series data is critical for downstream tasks such as classification and forecasting. Contrastive learning has recently shown its promising representation learning capability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Qianwen Meng , Hangwei Qian , Yong Liu , Lizhen Cui , Yonghui Xu , Zhiqi Shen

Medical image labels are often organized by taxonomies (e.g., organ - tissue - subtype), yet standard self-supervised learning (SSL) ignores this structure. We present a hierarchy-preserving contrastive framework that makes the label tree a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 Alif Elham Khan

Through minimization of an appropriate loss function such as the InfoNCE loss, contrastive learning (CL) learns a useful representation function by pulling positive samples close to each other while pushing negative samples far apart in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ruijie Jiang , Thuan Nguyen , Prakash Ishwar , Shuchin Aeron

Current contrastive learning frameworks focus on leveraging a single supervisory signal to learn representations, which limits the efficacy on unseen data and downstream tasks. In this paper, we present a hierarchical multi-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Shu Zhang , Ran Xu , Caiming Xiong , Chetan Ramaiah

We present a novel hierarchical triplet loss (HTL) capable of automatically collecting informative training samples (triplets) via a defined hierarchical tree that encodes global context information. This allows us to cope with the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Weifeng Ge , Weilin Huang , Dengke Dong , Matthew R. Scott

Inspired by the success of contrastive learning (CL) in computer vision and natural language processing, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been developed to learn discriminative node representations on graph datasets. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zehong Wang , Qi Li , Donghua Yu , Xiaolong Han , Xiao-Zhi Gao , Shigen Shen

Learning self-supervised image representations has been broadly studied to boost various visual understanding tasks. Existing methods typically learn a single level of image semantics like pairwise semantic similarity or image clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Minghao Xu , Yuanfan Guo , Xuanyu Zhu , Jiawen Li , Zhenbang Sun , Jian Tang , Yi Xu , Bingbing Ni

Hierarchical Text Classification (HTC) involves assigning documents to labels organized within a taxonomy. Most previous research on HTC has focused on supervised methods. However, in real-world scenarios, employing supervised HTC can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qianbo Zang , Christophe Zgrzendek , Igor Tchappi , Afshin Khadangi , Johannes Sedlmeir

Graph contrastive learning has been successfully applied in text classification due to its remarkable ability for self-supervised node representation learning. However, explicit graph augmentations may lead to a loss of semantics in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Wei Ai , Jianbin Li , Ze Wang , Yingying Wei , Tao Meng , Yuntao Shou , Keqin Lib

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) assigns documents to multiple levels of a pre-defined taxonomy. Automated patent subject classification represents one of the hardest HTC scenarios because of domain knowledge difficulty and a huge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Lekang Jiang , Wenjun Sun , Stephan Goetz

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) as an emerging technique have shown superior capacity of dealing with heterogeneous information network (HIN). However, most HGNNs follow a semi-supervised learning manner, which notably limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Nian Liu , Xiao Wang , Hui Han , Chuan Shi

We present a novel technique for self-supervised video representation learning by: (a) decoupling the learning objective into two contrastive subtasks respectively emphasizing spatial and temporal features, and (b) performing it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Zehua Zhang , David Crandall

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is a complex subtask under multi-label text classification, characterized by a hierarchical label taxonomy and data imbalance. The best-performing models aim to learn a static representation by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Vidit Jain , Mukund Rungta , Yuchen Zhuang , Yue Yu , Zeyu Wang , Mu Gao , Jeffrey Skolnick , Chao Zhang

Contrastive learning has achieved impressive success in generation tasks to militate the "exposure bias" problem and discriminatively exploit the different quality of references. Existing works mostly focus on contrastive learning on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mingzhe Li , XieXiong Lin , Xiuying Chen , Jinxiong Chang , Qishen Zhang , Feng Wang , Taifeng Wang , Zhongyi Liu , Wei Chu , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is a natural language processing task which has the objective of categorising text documents into a set of classes from a predefined structured class hierarchy. Recent HTC approaches use various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jaco du Toit , Marcel Dunaiski

We investigate node representation learning on text-attributed graphs (TAGs), where nodes are associated with text information. Although recent studies on graph neural networks (GNNs) and pretrained language models (PLMs) have exhibited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Peiyan Zhang , Chaozhuo Li , Liying Kang , Feiran Huang , Senzhang Wang , Xing Xie , Sunghun Kim

Many unsupervised hashing methods are implicitly established on the idea of reconstructing the input data, which basically encourages the hashing codes to retain as much information of original data as possible. However, this requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Zexuan Qiu , Qinliang Su , Zijing Ou , Jianxing Yu , Changyou Chen