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Learning sentence embeddings in an unsupervised manner is fundamental in natural language processing. Recent common practice is to couple pre-trained language models with unsupervised contrastive learning, whose success relies on augmenting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Can Xu , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has potential for effective representation learning in medical imaging, but the choice of data augmentation is critical and domain-specific. It remains uncertain if general augmentation policies suit surgical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yuning Zhou , Henry Badgery , Matthew Read , James Bailey , Catherine E. Davey

Personalized search plays a crucial role in improving user search experience owing to its ability to build user profiles based on historical behaviors. Previous studies have made great progress in extracting personal signals from the query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yujia Zhou , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Ji-Rong Wen

This paper focuses on self-supervised video representation learning. Most existing approaches follow the contrastive learning pipeline to construct positive and negative pairs by sampling different clips. However, this formulation tends to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Rui Qian , Weiyao Lin , John See , Dian Li

Data augmentation techniques have been proven useful in many applications in NLP fields. Most augmentations are task-specific, and cannot be used as a general-purpose tool. In our work, we present AugCSE, a unified framework to utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zilu Tang , Muhammed Yusuf Kocyigit , Derry Wijaya

Recent advances in unsupervised deep graph clustering have been significantly promoted by contrastive learning. Despite the strides, most graph contrastive learning models face challenges: 1) graph augmentation is used to improve learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chusheng Zeng , Bocheng Wang , Jinghui Yuan , Rong Wang , Mulin Chen

The graph with complex annotations is the most potent data type, whose constantly evolving motivates further exploration of the unsupervised dynamic graph representation. One of the representative paradigms is graph contrastive learning. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yiming Xu , Bin Shi , Teng Ma , Bo Dong , Haoyi Zhou , Qinghua Zheng

Supervised training of an automated medical image analysis system often requires a large amount of expert annotations that are hard to collect. Moreover, the proportions of data available across different classes may be highly imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yuan Xue , Jiarong Ye , Rodney Long , Sameer Antani , Zhiyun Xue , Xiaolei Huang

Existing contrastive learning methods for anomalous sound detection refine the audio representation of each audio sample by using the contrast between the samples' augmentations (e.g., with time or frequency masking). However, they might be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jian Guan , Feiyang Xiao , Youde Liu , Qiaoxi Zhu , Wenwu Wang

Sequential recommender systems have demonstrated strong capabilities in modeling users' dynamic preferences and capturing item transition patterns. However, real-world user behaviors are often noisy due to factors such as human errors,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Kaike Zhang , Qi Cao , Fei Sun , Xinran Liu , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Data augmentation has been actively studied for robust neural networks. Most of the recent data augmentation methods focus on augmenting datasets during the training phase. At the testing phase, simple transformations are still widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ildoo Kim , Younghoon Kim , Sungwoong Kim

Data augmentation, the artificial creation of training data for machine learning by transformations, is a widely studied research field across machine learning disciplines. While it is useful for increasing a model's generalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Markus Bayer , Marc-André Kaufhold , Christian Reuter

Contrastive learning has been utilized as a promising self-supervised learning approach to extract meaningful representations from unlabeled data. The majority of these methods take advantage of data-augmentation techniques to create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Han Yu , Huiyuan Yang , Akane Sano

Recent works in self-supervised learning have advanced the state-of-the-art by relying on the contrastive learning paradigm, which learns representations by pushing positive pairs, or similar examples from the same class, closer together…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Jeff Z. HaoChen , Colin Wei , Adrien Gaidon , Tengyu Ma

Contrastive learning is a family of self-supervised methods where a model is trained to solve a classification task constructed from unlabeled data. It has recently emerged as one of the leading learning paradigms in the absence of labels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-05 Bingbin Liu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Andrej Risteski

In this paper, we revisited the role of data augmentation in contrastive learning for sequential recommendation, revealing its inherent bias against low-frequency items and sparse user behaviors. To address this limitation, we proposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhikai Wang , Weihua Zhang

Code search, which aims at retrieving the most relevant code fragment for a given natural language query, is a common activity in software development practice. Recently, contrastive learning is widely used in code search research, where…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Haochen Li , Chunyan Miao , Cyril Leung , Yanxian Huang , Yuan Huang , Hongyu Zhang , Yanlin Wang

Complex data mining has wide application value in many fields, especially in the feature extraction and classification tasks of unlabeled data. This paper proposes an algorithm based on self-supervised learning and verifies its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yingbin Liang , Lu Dai , Shuo Shi , Minghao Dai , Junliang Du , Haige Wang

Contrastive learning has proven effective in training sequential recommendation models by incorporating self-supervised signals from augmented views. Most existing methods generate multiple views from the same interaction sequence through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yuanpeng Qu , Hajime Nobuhara

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as an effective tool for learning unsupervised representations of graphs. The key idea is to maximize the agreement between two augmented views of each graph via data augmentation. Existing GCL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Xin Zhang , Qiaoyu Tan , Xiao Huang , Bo Li