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Multi-view representation learning captures comprehensive information from multiple views of a shared context. Recent works intuitively apply contrastive learning (CL) to learn representations, regarded as a pairwise manner, which is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Jiangmeng Li , Wenwen Qiang , Hang Gao , Bing Su , Farid Razzak , Jie Hu , Changwen Zheng , Hui Xiong

Abstract syntax trees (ASTs) play a crucial role in source code representation. However, due to the large number of nodes in an AST and the typically deep AST hierarchy, it is challenging to learn the hierarchical structure of an AST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xiao Wang , Qiong Wu , Hongyu Zhang , Chen Lyu , Xue Jiang , Zhuoran Zheng , Lei Lyu , Songlin Hu

Hierarchical clustering recursively partitions data at an increasingly finer granularity. In real-world applications, multi-view data have become increasingly important. This raises a less investigated problem, i.e., multi-view hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Fangfei Lin , Bing Bai , Kun Bai , Yazhou Ren , Peng Zhao , Zenglin Xu

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

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is a challenging subtask of multi-label classification due to its complex taxonomic structure. Nearly all recent HTC works focus on how the labels are structured but ignore the sub-structure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zihan Wang , Peiyi Wang , Houfeng Wang

Contrastive learning (CL) methods effectively learn data representations in a self-supervision manner, where the encoder contrasts each positive sample over multiple negative samples via a one-vs-many softmax cross-entropy loss. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Huangjie Zheng , Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Hongxia Yang , Chunyuan Li , Ya Zhang , Hao Zhang , Ivor Tsang , Jingren Zhou , Mingyuan Zhou

Contrastive Learning (CL) has been proved to be a powerful self-supervised approach for a wide range of domains, including computer vision and graph representation learning. However, the incremental learning issue of CL has rarely been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Cheng Ji , Jianxin Li , Hao Peng , Jia Wu , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Phillip S. Yu

Contrastive learning has been proven beneficial for self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition. Most contrastive learning methods utilize carefully designed augmentations to generate different movement patterns of skeletons for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jiahang Zhang , Lilang Lin , Jiaying Liu

Recent years have witnessed increasing interests in developing interpretable models in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most existing models aim at identifying input features such as words or phrases important for model predictions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Yulan He

Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations (e.g., node dropping, edge perturbation, attribute masking)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Shihao Ji , Esra Akbas

Label hierarchies widely exist in many vision-related problems, ranging from explicit label hierarchies existed in image classification to latent label hierarchies existed in semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Hao-Yun Chen , Li-Huang Tsai , Shih-Chieh Chang , Jia-Yu Pan , Yu-Ting Chen , Wei Wei , Da-Cheng Juan

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success in self-supervised representation learning, often guided by information-theoretic objectives such as mutual information maximization. Motivated by the limitations of static augmentations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiansong Zhang , Zhuoqin Yang , Xu Wu , Xiaoling Luo , Peizhong Liu , Linlin Shen

Contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) learns an embedding space that maps similar data pairs closer and dissimilar data pairs farther apart. Despite its success, one issue has been overlooked: the fairness aspect of representations…

Human beings learn and accumulate hierarchical knowledge over their lifetime. This knowledge is associated with previous concepts for consolidation and hierarchical construction. However, current incremental learning methods lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Kai Wang , Xialei Liu , Luis Herranz , Joost van de Weijer

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to endow models with the ability to continuously adapt to evolving data streams. Recent advances in pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) provide a powerful foundation for this task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhen-Hao Wen , Yan Wang , Ji Feng , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Da-Wei Zhou

In computational pathology, we often face a scarcity of annotations and a large amount of unlabeled data. One method for dealing with this is semi-supervised learning which is commonly split into a self-supervised pretext task and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Manuel Tran , Sophia J. Wagner , Melanie Boxberg , Tingying Peng

This work investigates how hierarchically structured data can help neural networks learn conceptual representations of cathedrals. The underlying WikiScenes dataset provides a spatially organized hierarchical structure of cathedral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Arjun Bhalla , Daniel Levenson , Jan Bernhard , Anton Abilov

The self-supervised ultrasound (US) video model pretraining can use a small amount of labeled data to achieve one of the most promising results on US diagnosis. However, it does not take full advantage of multi-level knowledge for learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Chunhui Zhang , Yixiong Chen , Li Liu , Qiong Liu , Xi Zhou

Graph augmentations are essential for graph contrastive learning. Most existing works use pre-defined random augmentations, which are usually unable to adapt to different input graphs and fail to consider the impact of different nodes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yifu Chen , Qianqian Ren , Liu Yong

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) aims to rank the documents written in a language different from the user's query. The intrinsic gap between different languages is an essential challenge for CLIR. In this paper, we introduce the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Fuwei Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Xiang Ao , Dehong Gao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Yi Wei , Qing He