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The learning objective of vision-language approach of CLIP does not effectively account for the noisy many-to-many correspondences found in web-harvested image captioning datasets, which contributes to its compute and data inefficiency. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Alex Andonian , Shixing Chen , Raffay Hamid

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image specified by a query image and a relative text that describes a semantic modification to the query image. Existing methods in CIR struggle to accurately represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Eric Xing , Pranavi Kolouju , Robert Pless , Abby Stylianou , Nathan Jacobs

Image retrieval targets to find images from a database that are visually similar to the query image. Two-stage methods following retrieve-and-rerank paradigm have achieved excellent performance, but their separate local and global modules…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yunquan Zhu , Xinkai Gao , Bo Ke , Ruizhi Qiao , Xing Sun

The task of composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve images based on the query image and the text describing the users' intent. Existing methods have made great progress with the advanced large vision-language (VL) model in CIR task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yongchao Du , Min Wang , Wengang Zhou , Shuping Hui , Houqiang Li

Today, there have been many achievements in learning the association between voice and face. However, most previous work models rely on cosine similarity or L2 distance to evaluate the likeness of voices and faces following contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chong Peng , Liqiang He , Dan Su

The Image Difference Captioning (IDC) task aims to describe the visual differences between two similar images with natural language. The major challenges of this task lie in two aspects: 1) fine-grained visual differences that require…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Linli Yao , Weiying Wang , Qin Jin

The Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve target images using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modified text. Advanced methods often utilize contrastive learning as the optimization objective, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zhangchi Feng , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie

This paper introduces contrastive siamese (c-siam) network, an architecture for leveraging unlabeled acoustic data in speech recognition. c-siam is the first network that extracts high-level linguistic information from speech by matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Soheil Khorram , Jaeyoung Kim , Anshuman Tripathi , Han Lu , Qian Zhang , Hasim Sak

Contrastive learning-based methods, such as unsup-SimCSE, have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performances in learning unsupervised sentence embeddings. However, in previous studies, each embedding used for contrastive learning only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hongliang He , Junlei Zhang , Zhenzhong Lan , Yue Zhang

Despite recent progress in video and language representation learning, the weak or sparse correspondence between the two modalities remains a bottleneck in the area. Most video-language models are trained via pair-level loss to predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zixu Wang , Yujie Zhong , Yishu Miao , Lin Ma , Lucia Specia

Motion retrieval is crucial for motion acquisition, offering superior precision, realism, controllability, and editability compared to motion generation. Existing approaches leverage contrastive learning to construct a unified embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shiyao Yu , Zi-An Wang , Kangning Yin , Zheng Tian , Mingyuan Zhang , Weixin Si , Shihao Zou

Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method for images and videos. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault

Recent advances in learned image compression (LIC) have enabled practical deployments, spurring active research into image compression for machines and progressive coding schemes. However, their integration remains under-explored: prior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Jungwoo Kim , Jun-Hyuk Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

Sparse coding is an unsupervised learning algorithm that learns a succinct high-level representation of the inputs given only unlabeled data; it represents each input as a sparse linear combination of a set of basis functions. Originally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Roger Grosse , Rajat Raina , Helen Kwong , Andrew Y. Ng

In the field of vision-language contrastive learning, models such as CLIP capitalize on matched image-caption pairs as positive examples and leverage within-batch non-matching pairs as negatives. This approach has led to remarkable outcomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Maxwell Aladago , Lorenzo Torresani , Soroush Vosoughi

Recent unsupervised contrastive representation learning follows a Single Instance Multi-view (SIM) paradigm where positive pairs are usually constructed with intra-image data augmentation. In this paper, we propose an effective approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xiangxiang Chu , Xiaohang Zhan , Bo Zhang

Learning unified text embeddings that excel across diverse downstream tasks is a central goal in representation learning, yet negative transfer remains a persistent obstacle. This challenge is particularly pronounced when jointly training a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bowen Zhang , Zixin Song , Chunquan Chen , Qian-Wen Zhang , Di Yin , Xing Sun

There is extensive interest in metric learning methods for image retrieval. Many metric learning loss functions focus on learning a correct ranking of training samples, but strongly overfit semantically inconsistent labels and require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Christopher Liao , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Brian Kulis

We introduce MIM (Masked Image Modeling)-Refiner, a contrastive learning boost for pre-trained MIM models. MIM-Refiner is motivated by the insight that strong representations within MIM models generally reside in intermediate layers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Benedikt Alkin , Lukas Miklautz , Sepp Hochreiter , Johannes Brandstetter

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is a vision language task that retrieves a target image using a reference image and modification text, enabling intuitive specification of desired changes. While effectively fusing visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jeong-Woo Park , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee