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Recent advances in image-level self-supervised learning (SSL) have made significant progress, yet learning dense representations for patches remains challenging. Mainstream methods encounter an over-dispersion phenomenon that patches from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Peisong Wen , Qianqian Xu , Siran Dai , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) strategies have demonstrated remarkable performance in various recognition tasks. However, both our preliminary investigation and recent studies suggest that they may be less effective in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Yangyang Shu , Anton van den Hengel , Lingqiao Liu

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) leverages limited labeled and abundant unlabeled data but often faces challenges with data imbalance, especially in 3D contexts. This study investigates class-level confidence as an indicator of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Zhimin Chen , Bing Li

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) including the mainstream contrastive learning has achieved great success in learning visual representations without data annotations. However, most methods mainly focus on the instance level information (\ie,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is recognized as an essential tool for building foundation models for Artificial Intelligence applications. The advances in SSL have been made thanks to vigorous arguments about the principles of SSL and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Josef Kittler , Sara Atito , Muhammad Awais

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) promises improved accuracy compared to training classifiers on small labeled datasets by also training on many unlabeled images. In real applications like medical imaging, unlabeled data will be collected for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zhe Huang , Mary-Joy Sidhom , Benjamin S. Wessler , Michael C. Hughes

Recent state-of-the-art method FlexMatch firstly demonstrated that correctly estimating learning status is crucial for semi-supervised learning (SSL). However, the estimation method proposed by FlexMatch does not take into account…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zhimin Chen , Longlong Jing , Liang Yang , Yingwei Li , Bing Li

Recommender systems play a crucial role in tackling the challenge of information overload by delivering personalized recommendations based on individual user preferences. Deep learning techniques, such as RNNs, GNNs, and Transformer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xubin Ren , Wei Wei , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning framework that trains accurate global models while preserving clients' privacy-sensitive data. However, most FL approaches assume that clients possess labeled data, which is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Seungjoo Lee , Thanh-Long V. Le , Jaemin Shin , Sung-Ju Lee

Nowadays, supervised deep learning techniques yield the best state-of-the-art prediction performances for a wide variety of computer vision tasks. However, such supervised techniques generally require a large amount of manually labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Florent Chiaroni , Mohamed-Cherif Rahal , Nicolas Hueber , Frederic Dufaux

Recent research in self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown its capability in learning useful semantic representations from images for classification tasks. Through our work, we study the usefulness of SSL for Fine-Grained Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Muhammad Maaz , Hanoona Abdul Rasheed , Dhanalaxmi Gaddam

Self-supervised learning (SSL) can be used to solve complex visual tasks without human labels. Self-supervised representations encode useful semantic information about images, and as a result, they have already been used for tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Paul Engstler , Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina

Deep learning (DL) models have now been widely used for high-performance material property prediction for properties such as formation energy and band gap. However, training such DL models usually requires a large amount of labeled data,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-11 Nihang Fu , Lai Wei , Jianjun Hu

In information retrieval, training reranking models mainly focuses on two types of objectives: metric learning (e.g. contrastive loss to increase the predicted scores on relevant query-document pairs) and classification (binary label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ziqi Dai , Xin Zhang , Mingxin Li , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Meishan Zhang , Wenjie Li , Min Zhang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) leverages both labeled and unlabeled data to train machine learning (ML) models. State-of-the-art SSL methods can achieve comparable performance to supervised learning by leveraging much fewer labeled data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Xinlei He , Hongbin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yang Zhang

Much progress has been made in semi-supervised learning (SSL) by combining methods that exploit different aspects of the data distribution, e.g. consistency regularisation relies on properties of $p(x)$, whereas entropy minimisation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Carl Allen , Ivana Balažević , Timothy Hospedales

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently achieved impressive performance on various time series tasks. The most prominent advantage of SSL is that it reduces the dependence on labeled data. Based on the pre-training and fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kexin Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Chaoli Zhang , Rongyao Cai , Ming Jin , Yong Liu , James Zhang , Yuxuan Liang , Guansong Pang , Dongjin Song , Shirui Pan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is an emerging technique that has been successfully employed to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and graph neural networks (GNNs) for more transferable, generalizable, and robust representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Prarthana Bhattacharyya , Chengjie Huang , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a practical challenge in computer vision. Pseudo-label (PL) methods, e.g., FixMatch and FreeMatch, obtain the State Of The Art (SOTA) performances in SSL. These approaches employ a threshold-to-pseudo-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jiaqi Wu , Junbiao Pang , Baochang Zhang , Qingming Huang

Despite the impressive progress of self-supervised learning (SSL), its applicability to low-compute networks has received limited attention. Reported performance has trailed behind standard supervised pre-training by a large margin, barring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Fuwen Tan , Fatemeh Saleh , Brais Martinez