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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

Medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, enabling the alignment of images from different modalities or time points. However, intensity inconsistencies and nonlinear tissue deformations pose significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Eytan Kats , Christoph Grossbroehmer , Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi , Fenja Falta , Wiebke Heyer , Mattias P. Heinrich

Conditional contrastive learning frameworks consider the conditional sampling procedure that constructs positive or negative data pairs conditioned on specific variables. Fair contrastive learning constructs negative pairs, for example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Tianqin Li , Martin Q. Ma , Han Zhao , Kun Zhang , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Contrastive learning has delivered impressive results for various tasks in the self-supervised regime. However, existing approaches optimize for learning representations specific to downstream scenarios, i.e., \textit{global}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Medical report generation is a challenging task since it is time-consuming and requires expertise from experienced radiologists. The goal of medical report generation is to accurately capture and describe the image findings. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yu-Jen Chen , Wei-Hsiang Shen , Hao-Wei Chung , Ching-Hao Chiu , Da-Cheng Juan , Tsung-Ying Ho , Chi-Tung Cheng , Meng-Lin Li , Tsung-Yi Ho

Contrastive learning has shown remarkable results in recent self-supervised approaches for visual representation. By learning to contrast positive pairs' representation from the corresponding negatives pairs, one can train good visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Sungnyun Kim , Gihun Lee , Sangmin Bae , Se-Young Yun

Unpaired image-to-image translation involves learning mappings between source domain and target domain in the absence of aligned or corresponding samples. Score based diffusion models have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Venkata Narendra Kotyada , Revanth Eranki , Nagesh Bhattu Sristy

During the past decade, deep neural networks have led to fast-paced progress and significant achievements in computer vision problems, for both academia and industry. Yet despite their success, state-of-the-art image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Aristotelis Ballas , Christos Diou

Recently, contrastive learning approaches (e.g., CLIP (Radford et al., 2021)) have received huge success in multimodal learning, where the model tries to minimize the distance between the representations of different views (e.g., image and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Yunwei Ren , Yuanzhi Li

Well-annotated medical datasets enable deep neural networks (DNNs) to gain strong power in extracting lesion-related features. Building such large and well-designed medical datasets is costly due to the need for high-level expertise. Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yixiong Chen , Chunhui Zhang , Chris H. Q. Ding , Li Liu

This paper considers contrastive training for cross-modal 0-shot transfer wherein a pre-trained model in one modality is used for representation learning in another domain using pairwise data. The learnt models in the latter domain can then…

We propose Domain-Conditioned Meta-Contrastive Learning, a framework for improving the cross-domain generalization of vision-language models. While contrastive models such as CLIP achieve strong performance through large-scale training,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Merham Fouladvand , Peuroly Batra

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

Cross-domain offline reinforcement learning leverages source domain data with diverse transition dynamics to alleviate the data requirement for the target domain. However, simply merging the data of two domains leads to performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Xiaoyu Wen , Chenjia Bai , Kang Xu , Xudong Yu , Yang Zhang , Xuelong Li , Zhen Wang

In reinforcement learning (RL), it is easier to solve a task if given a good representation. While deep RL should automatically acquire such good representations, prior work often finds that learning representations in an end-to-end fashion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Benjamin Eysenbach , Tianjun Zhang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Sergey Levine

Due to the common content of anatomy, radiology images with their corresponding reports exhibit high similarity. Such inherent data bias can predispose automatic report generation models to learn entangled and spurious representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Mingjie Li , Haokun Lin , Liang Qiu , Xiaodan Liang , Ling Chen , Abdulmotaleb Elsaddik , Xiaojun Chang

Self-supervised learning has proven to be an effective way to learn representations in domains where annotated labels are scarce, such as medical imaging. A widely adopted framework for this purpose is contrastive learning and it has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Hugo Figueiras , Helena Aidos , Nuno Cruz Garcia

Contrastive learning is a powerful framework for learning self-supervised representations that generalize well to downstream supervised tasks. We show that multiple existing contrastive learning methods can be reinterpreted as learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Daniel D. Johnson , Ayoub El Hanchi , Chris J. Maddison

Contrastive learning has become pivotal in unsupervised representation learning, with frameworks like Momentum Contrast (MoCo) effectively utilizing large negative sample sets to extract discriminative features. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Duy Hoang , Huy Ngo , Khoi Pham , Tri Nguyen , Gia Bao , Huy Phan

The success of deep learning heavily depends on the availability of large labeled training sets. However, it is hard to get large labeled datasets in medical image domain because of the strict privacy concern and costly labeling efforts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Dewen Zeng , Yawen Wu , Xinrong Hu , Xiaowei Xu , Haiyun Yuan , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang , Jingtong Hu , Yiyu Shi