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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has revolutionized visual representation learning, but has not achieved the robustness of human vision. A reason for this could be that SSL does not leverage all the data available to humans during learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Arthur Aubret , Céline Teulière , Jochen Triesch

Self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to learn intrinsic features without labels. Despite the diverse architectures of SSL methods, the projection head always plays an important role in improving the performance of the downstream task. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jiajun Ma , Tianyang Hu , Wenjia Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have emerged as strong visual representation learners by training an image encoder to maximize similarity between features of different views of the same image. To perform this view-invariance task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Varun Belagali , Srikar Yellapragada , Alexandros Graikos , Saarthak Kapse , Zilinghan Li , Tarak Nath Nandi , Ravi K Madduri , Prateek Prasanna , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras

The long-term goal of machine learning is to learn general visual representations from a small amount of data without supervision, mimicking three advantages of human cognition: i) no need for labels, ii) robustness to data scarcity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jingyao Wang , Zeen Song , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) and generative diffusion models (DM) have been widely used in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) to enhance the image perceptual quality. However, these generative models are prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Du Chen , Zhengqiang Zhang , Jie Liang , Lei Zhang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) can be used to solve complex visual tasks without human labels. Self-supervised representations encode useful semantic information about images, and as a result, they have already been used for tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Paul Engstler , Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina

Recent progress in self-supervised (SSL) visual representation learning has led to the development of several different proposed frameworks that rely on augmentations of images but use different loss functions. However, there are few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Kumar Krishna Agrawal , Arna Ghosh , Shagun Sodhani , Adam Oberman , Blake Richards

In this work, we observe a counterintuitive phenomenon in self-supervised learning (SSL): longer training may impair the performance of dense prediction tasks (e.g., semantic segmentation). We refer to this phenomenon as Self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Siran Dai , Qianqian Xu , Peisong Wen , Yang Liu , Qingming Huang

Deep learning (DL) models have now been widely used for high-performance material property prediction for properties such as formation energy and band gap. However, training such DL models usually requires a large amount of labeled data,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-11 Nihang Fu , Lai Wei , Jianjun Hu

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been proven to be a powerful method for leveraging unlabeled data to alleviate models'dependence on large labeled datasets. The common framework among recent approaches is to train the model on a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jun Sun , Wancheng Zhang , Chao Zhou , Zhongjie Mao , Chao Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

The development of semi-supervised learning (SSL) has in recent years largely focused on the development of new consistency regularization or entropy minimization approaches, often resulting in models with complex training strategies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Durgesh Singh , Ahcene Boubekki , Robert Jenssen , Michael C. Kampffmeyer

Deep supervised learning has achieved great success in the last decade. However, its deficiencies of dependence on manual labels and vulnerability to attacks have driven people to explore a better solution. As an alternative,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Xiao Liu , Fanjin Zhang , Zhenyu Hou , Zhaoyu Wang , Li Mian , Jing Zhang , Jie Tang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has attracted much attention since it reduces the expensive costs of collecting adequate well-labeled training data, especially for deep learning methods. However, traditional SSL is built upon an assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Lie Ju , Yicheng Wu , Wei Feng , Zhen Yu , Lin Wang , Zhuoting Zhu , Zongyuan Ge

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown impressive results in downstream classification tasks. However, there is limited work in understanding their failure modes and interpreting their learned representations. In this paper, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Neha Kalibhat , Kanika Narang , Hamed Firooz , Maziar Sanjabi , Soheil Feizi

In the context of personalized federated learning, existing approaches train a global model to extract transferable representations, based on which any client could train personalized models with a limited number of data samples.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sijia Chen , Ningxin Su , Baochun Li

The goal of supervised representation learning is to construct effective data representations for prediction. Among all the characteristics of an ideal nonparametric representation of high-dimensional complex data, sufficiency, low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Xu Liao , Jin Liu , Zhou Yu

In recent years, semi-supervised learning (SSL) has shown tremendous success in leveraging unlabeled data to improve the performance of deep learning models, which significantly reduces the demand for large amounts of labeled data. Many SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Song-Bo Yang , Tian-li Yu

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) is an approach to learn useful representations by solving a pretext task that selects and compares anchor, negative and positive (APN) features from an unlabeled dataset. We present a conceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 William Falcon , Kyunghyun Cho

Semi-supervised learning relaxes the need of large pixel-wise labeled datasets for image segmentation by leveraging unlabeled data. The scarcity of high-quality labeled data remains a major challenge in medical image analysis due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jun Li

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently achieved impressive performance on various time series tasks. The most prominent advantage of SSL is that it reduces the dependence on labeled data. Based on the pre-training and fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kexin Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Chaoli Zhang , Rongyao Cai , Ming Jin , Yong Liu , James Zhang , Yuxuan Liang , Guansong Pang , Dongjin Song , Shirui Pan