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Contrastive learning has become a fundamental approach in both uni-modal and multi-modal frameworks. This learning paradigm pulls positive pairs of samples closer while pushing negatives apart. In the uni-modal setting (e.g., image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siarhei Sheludzko , Dhimitrios Duka , Bernt Schiele , Hilde Kuehne , Anna Kukleva

Tremendous progress has been made in visual representation learning, notably with the recent success of self-supervised contrastive learning methods. Supervised contrastive learning has also been shown to outperform its cross-entropy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Ashraful Islam , Chun-Fu Chen , Rameswar Panda , Leonid Karlinsky , Richard Radke , Rogerio Feris

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

Multimodal Language Analysis is a demanding area of research, since it is associated with two requirements: combining different modalities and capturing temporal information. During the last years, several works have been proposed in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Panagiotis Koromilas , Theodoros Giannakopoulos

Methods based on supervised learning using annotations in an end-to-end fashion have been the state-of-the-art for classification problems. However, they may be limited in their generalization capability, especially in the low data regime.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ilyass Moummad , Nicolas Farrugia

In recent years, soft prompt learning methods have been proposed to fine-tune large-scale vision-language pre-trained models for various downstream tasks. These methods typically combine learnable textual tokens with class tokens as input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yingjie Tian , Yiqi Wang , Xianda Guo , Zheng Zhu , Long Chen

Multi-modal generative AI systems, such as those combining vision and language, rely on contrastive pre-training to learn representations across different modalities. While their practical benefits are widely acknowledged, a rigorous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Kazusato Oko , Licong Lin , Yuhang Cai , Song Mei

This paper aims to build a multi-speaker expressive TTS system, synthesizing a target speaker's speech with multiple styles and emotions. To this end, we propose a novel contrastive learning-based TTS approach to transfer style and emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Xinfa Zhu , Yuke Li , Yi Lei , Ning Jiang , Guoqing Zhao , Lei Xie

There is no doubt that advanced artificial intelligence models and high quality data are the keys to success in developing computational pathology tools. Although the overall volume of pathology data keeps increasing, a lack of quality data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Trinh Thi Le Vuong , Jin Tae Kwak

Contrastive learning models have demonstrated impressive abilities to capture semantic similarities by aligning representations in the embedding space. However, their performance can be limited by the quality of the training data and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Amirabbas Afzali , Borna Khodabandeh , Ali Rasekh , Mahyar JafariNodeh , Sepehr kazemi , Simon Gottschalk

The lack of labeled data is a key challenge for learning useful representation from time series data. However, an unsupervised representation framework that is capable of producing high quality representations could be of great value. It is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-18 Kristoffer Wickstrøm , Michael Kampffmeyer , Karl Øyvind Mikalsen , Robert Jenssen

In medical imaging, manual annotations can be expensive to acquire and sometimes infeasible to access, making conventional deep learning-based models difficult to scale. As a result, it would be beneficial if useful representations could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Jianbo Jiao , Yifan Cai , Mohammad Alsharid , Lior Drukker , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

We present a self-supervised learning method to learn audio and video representations. Prior work uses the natural correspondence between audio and video to define a standard cross-modal instance discrimination task, where a model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pedro Morgado , Ishan Misra , Nuno Vasconcelos

Multimodal learning has recently gained significant popularity, demonstrating impressive performance across various zero-shot classification tasks and a range of perceptive and generative applications. Models such as Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Can Yaras , Siyi Chen , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

Multi-modal affective computing aims to automatically recognize and interpret human attitudes from diverse data sources such as images and text, thereby enhancing human-computer interaction and emotion understanding. Existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuanhe Tian , Pengsen Cheng , Guoqing Jin , Lei Zhang , Yan Song

This paper studies a text classification algorithm based on an improved Transformer to improve the performance and efficiency of the model in text classification tasks. Aiming at the shortcomings of the traditional Transformer model in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jia Gao , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Shicheng Zhou , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

Standard fine-tuning of pre-trained audio models couples representation learning with classifier training, which can obscure the true quality of the learned representations. In this work, we advocate for a disentangled two-stage framework…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yang Wang , Qibin Liang , Chenghao Xiao , Yizhi Li , Noura Al Moubayed , Chenghua Lin

Multimodal emotion recognition study is hindered by the lack of labelled corpora in terms of scale and diversity, due to the high annotation cost and label ambiguity. In this paper, we propose a pre-training model \textbf{MEmoBERT} for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jinming Zhao , Ruichen Li , Qin Jin , Xinchao Wang , Haizhou Li

Classical machine learners are designed only to tackle one task without capability of adopting new emerging tasks or classes whereas such capacity is more practical and human-like in the real world. To address this shortcoming, continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xuejun Han , Yuhong Guo

Contrastive representation learning has gained much attention due to its superior performance in learning representations from both image and sequential data. However, the learned representations could potentially lead to performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jianfeng Chi , William Shand , Yaodong Yu , Kai-Wei Chang , Han Zhao , Yuan Tian