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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated its effectiveness in learning representations through comparison methods that align with human intuition. However, mainstream SSL methods heavily rely on high body datasets with single label,…

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Visual-only self-supervised learning has achieved significant improvement in video representation learning. Existing related methods encourage models to learn video representations by utilizing contrastive learning or designing specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jinyu Liu , Ying Cheng , Yuejie Zhang , Rui-Wei Zhao , Rui Feng

In recent years, contrastive learning achieves impressive results on self-supervised visual representation learning, but there still lacks a rigorous understanding of its learning dynamics. In this paper, we show that if we cast a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yifei Wang , Qi Zhang , Tianqi Du , Jiansheng Yang , Zhouchen Lin , Yisen Wang

This work studies the relationship between Contrastive Learning and Domain Adaptation from a theoretical perspective. The two standard contrastive losses, NT-Xent loss (Self-supervised) and Supervised Contrastive loss, are related to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Gonzalo Iñaki Quintana , Laurence Vancamberg , Vincent Jugnon , Agnès Desolneux , Mathilde Mougeot

Self-supervised learning holds promise in leveraging large numbers of unlabeled data. However, its success heavily relies on the highly-curated dataset, e.g., ImageNet, which still needs human cleaning. Directly learning representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Meilin Chen , Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Feng Zhu , Haiyang Yang , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao , Donglian Qi , Wanli Ouyang

Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained much attention from the computer vision community because of the recent achievement of contrastive learning. Most of the existing contrastive learning frameworks adopt the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Shan You , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

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…

Recent self-supervised representation learning techniques have largely closed the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning on ImageNet classification. While the particulars of pretraining on ImageNet are now relatively well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Elijah Cole , Xuan Yang , Kimberly Wilber , Oisin Mac Aodha , Serge Belongie

Unsupervised sentence embedding aims to obtain the most appropriate embedding for a sentence to reflect its semantic. Contrastive learning has been attracting developing attention. For a sentence, current models utilize diverse data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Hao Wang , Yangguang Li , Zhen Huang , Yong Dou , Lingpeng Kong , Jing Shao

Multifold observations are common for different data modalities, e.g., a 3D shape can be represented by multi-view images and an image can be described with different captions. Existing cross-modal contrastive representation learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Ye Wang , Bowei Jiang , Changqing Zou , Rui Ma

Contrastive learning has gained significant attention as a method for self-supervised learning. The contrastive loss function ensures that embeddings of positive sample pairs (e.g., different samples from the same class or different views…

Large-scale multi-modal contrastive pre-training has demonstrated great utility to learn transferable features for a range of downstream tasks by mapping multiple modalities into a shared embedding space. Typically, this has employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Haoxuan You , Luowei Zhou , Bin Xiao , Noel Codella , Yu Cheng , Ruochen Xu , Shih-Fu Chang , Lu Yuan

The learn-to-compare paradigm of contrastive representation learning (CRL), which compares positive samples with negative ones for representation learning, has achieved great success in a wide range of domains, including natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Lanling Xu , Jianxun Lian , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Daxin Jiang , Xing Xie , Ji-Rong Wen

Contrastive learning has nearly closed the gap between supervised and self-supervised learning of image representations, and has also been explored for videos. However, prior work on contrastive learning for video data has not explored the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Ishan Dave , Rohit Gupta , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Mubarak Shah

Multi-label classification, which involves assigning multiple labels to a single input, has emerged as a key area in both research and industry due to its wide-ranging applications. Designing effective loss functions is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Alexandre Audibert , Aurélien Gauffre , Massih-Reza Amini

In typical multimodal contrastive learning, such as CLIP, encoders produce one point in the latent representation space for each input. However, one-point representation has difficulty in capturing the relationship and the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Toshimitsu Uesaka , Taiji Suzuki , Yuhta Takida , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Naoki Murata , Yuki Mitsufuji

Mitochondria segmentation in electron microscopy images is essential in neuroscience. However, due to the image degradation during the imaging process, the large variety of mitochondrial structures, as well as the presence of noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Zhili Li , Xuejin Chen , Jie Zhao , Zhiwei Xiong

Large vision-language contrastive models (VLCMs), such as CLIP, have become foundational, demonstrating remarkable success across a variety of downstream tasks. Despite their advantages, these models, akin to other foundational systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haocheng Dai , Sarang Joshi

Recent contrastive methods show significant improvement in self-supervised learning in several domains. In particular, contrastive methods are most effective where data augmentation can be easily constructed e.g. in computer vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Denis Gudovskiy , Kazuki Kozuka , Iku Ohama , Luca Rigazio

Contrastive Learning (CL), a leading paradigm in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), typically relies on pairs of data views generated through augmentation. While multiple augmentations per instance (more than two) improve generalization in…