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Self-supervised contrastive learning offers a means of learning informative features from a pool of unlabeled data. In this paper, we delve into another useful approach -- providing a way of selecting a core-set that is entirely unlabeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jeongwoo Ju , Heechul Jung , Yoonju Oh , Junmo Kim

False negatives pose a critical challenge in vision-language pretraining (VLP) due to the many-to-many correspondence between images and texts in large-scale datasets. These false negatives introduce conflicting supervision signals that…

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Subject-driven image generation models face a fundamental trade-off between identity preservation (fidelity) and prompt adherence (editability). While online reinforcement learning (RL), specifically GPRO, offers a promising solution, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ziwei Huang , Ying Shu , Hao Fang , Quanyu Long , Wenya Wang , Qiushi Guo , Tiezheng Ge , Leilei Gan

Representations of events described in text are important for various tasks. In this work, we present SWCC: a Simultaneous Weakly supervised Contrastive learning and Clustering framework for event representation learning. SWCC learns event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jun Gao , Wei Wang , Changlong Yu , Huan Zhao , Wilfred Ng , Ruifeng Xu

Contrastive vision-language (V&L) models remain a popular choice for various applications. However, several limitations have emerged, most notably the limited ability of V&L models to learn compositional representations. Prior methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hai X. Pham , David T. Hoffmann , Ricardo Guerrero , Brais Martinez

Deep supervised learning has achieved great success in the last decade. However, its deficiencies of dependence on manual labels and vulnerability to attacks have driven people to explore a better solution. As an alternative,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Xiao Liu , Fanjin Zhang , Zhenyu Hou , Zhaoyu Wang , Li Mian , Jing Zhang , Jie Tang

Learning discriminative image representations plays a vital role in long-tailed image classification because it can ease the classifier learning in imbalanced cases. Given the promising performance contrastive learning has shown recently in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Peng Wang , Kai Han , Xiu-Shen Wei , Lei Zhang , Lei Wang

Labeling data is often very time consuming and expensive, leaving us with a majority of unlabeled data. Self-supervised representation learning methods such as SimCLR (Chen et al., 2020) or BYOL (Grill et al., 2020) have been very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zhaohan Daniel Guo , Bernardo Avila Pires , Khimya Khetarpal , Dale Schuurmans , Bo Dai

Similarity metric is crucial for massive MIMO positioning utilizing channel state information~(CSI). In this letter, we propose a novel massive MIMO CSI similarity learning method via deep convolutional neural network~(DCNN) and contrastive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Junquan Deng , Wei Shi , Jianzhao Zhang , Xianyu Zhang , Chuan Zhang

We show that bringing intermediate layers' representations of two augmented versions of an image closer together in self-supervised learning helps to improve the momentum contrastive (MoCo) method. To this end, in addition to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Aakash Kaku , Sahana Upadhya , Narges Razavian

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

Model pre-training has become essential in various recognition tasks. Meanwhile, with the remarkable advancements in image generation models, pre-training methods utilizing generated images have also emerged given their ability to produce…

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Recent advances in self-supervised learning through contrastive training have shown that it is possible to learn a competitive speech recognition system with as little as 10 minutes of labeled data. However, these systems are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Lasse Borgholt , Tycho Max Sylvester Tax , Jakob Drachmann Havtorn , Lars Maaløe , Christian Igel

The task of industrial detection based on deep learning often involves solving two problems: (1) obtaining sufficient and effective data samples, (2) and using efficient and convenient model training methods. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yangfan He , Xinyan Wang , Tianyu Shi

Self-supervised learning can be used for mitigating the greedy needs of Vision Transformer networks for very large fully-annotated datasets. Different classes of self-supervised learning offer representations with either good contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Oriane Simeoni , Antonin Vobecky , Nikos Komodakis , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

Contrastive, self-supervised learning of object representations recently emerged as an attractive alternative to reconstruction-based training. Prior approaches focus on contrasting individual object representations (slots) against one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Sindy Löwe , Klaus Greff , Rico Jonschkowski , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Kipf

Under partial-label learning (PLL) where, for each training instance, only a set of ambiguous candidate labels containing the unknown true label is accessible, contrastive learning has recently boosted the performance of PLL on vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Shiyu Xia , Jiaqi Lv , Ning Xu , Gang Niu , Xin Geng

Automatic ophthalmic disease diagnosis on fundus images is important in clinical practice. However, due to complex fundus textures and limited annotated data, developing an effective automatic method for this problem is still challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jinhong Wang , Tingting Chen , Jintai Chen , Yixuan Wu , Yuyang Xu , Danny Chen , Haochao Ying , Jian Wu

One of the challenges in contrastive learning is the selection of appropriate \textit{hard negative} examples, in the absence of label information. Random sampling or importance sampling methods based on feature similarity often lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Afrina Tabassum , Muntasir Wahed , Hoda Eldardiry , Ismini Lourentzou

Self-supervised methods based on contrastive learning have achieved great success in unsupervised visual representation learning. However, most methods under this framework suffer from the problem of false negative samples. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Chen Peng , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li