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Contrastive representation learning has emerged as a promising technique for continual learning as it can learn representations that are robust to catastrophic forgetting and generalize well to unseen future tasks. Previous work in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Rouzbeh Meshkinnejad , Jie Mei , Daniel Lizotte , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Recent self-supervised contrastive methods have been able to produce impressive transferable visual representations by learning to be invariant to different data augmentations. However, these methods implicitly assume a particular set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Tete Xiao , Xiaolong Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Trevor Darrell

Time series classification (TSC) is fundamental in numerous domains, including finance, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. However, traditional TSC methods often struggle with the inherent complexity and variability of time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Marcell T. Kurbucz , Balázs Hajós , Balázs P. Halmos , Vince Á. Molnár , Antal Jakovác

We introduce Consistent Assignment for Representation Learning (CARL), an unsupervised learning method to learn visual representations by combining ideas from self-supervised contrastive learning and deep clustering. By viewing contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Thalles Silva , Adín Ramírez Rivera

Although deep learning-based segmentation models have achieved impressive performance on public benchmarks, generalizing well to unseen environments remains a major challenge. To improve the model's generalization ability to the new domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yunlong Zhang , Yuxuan Sun , Sunyi Zheng , Zhongyi Shui , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

Online continual learning (online CL) studies the problem of learning sequential tasks from an online data stream without task boundaries, aiming to adapt to new data while alleviating catastrophic forgetting on the past tasks. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Zhen Wang , Liu Liu , Yajing Kong , Jiaxian Guo , Dacheng Tao

Recently, contrastive learning attracts increasing interests in neural text generation as a new solution to alleviate the exposure bias problem. It introduces a sequence-level training signal which is crucial to generation tasks that always…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Chenxin An , Jiangtao Feng , Kai Lv , Lingpeng Kong , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Road network and trajectory representation learning are essential for traffic systems since the learned representation can be directly used in various downstream tasks (e.g., traffic speed inference, and travel time estimation). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhenyu Mao , Ziyue Li , Dedong Li , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao

The backpropagation method has enabled transformative uses of neural networks. Alternatively, for energy-based models, local learning methods involving only nearby neurons offer benefits in terms of decentralized training, and allow for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-30 Martin J. Falk , Adam T. Strupp , Benjamin Scellier , Arvind Murugan

Recently, pretext-task based methods are proposed one after another in self-supervised video feature learning. Meanwhile, contrastive learning methods also yield good performance. Usually, new methods can beat previous ones as claimed that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Li Tao , Xueting Wang , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Time series classification is a critical task in various domains, such as finance, healthcare, and sensor data analysis. Unsupervised contrastive learning has garnered significant interest in learning effective representations from time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Huili Cai , Xiang Zhang , Xiaofeng Liu

Unsupervised (a.k.a. Self-supervised) representation learning (URL) has emerged as a new paradigm for time series analysis, because it has the ability to learn generalizable time series representation beneficial for many downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zhiyu Liang , Chen Liang , Zheng Liang , Hongzhi Wang , Bo Zheng

Temporal networks have been widely used to model real-world complex systems such as financial systems and e-commerce systems. In a temporal network, the joint neighborhood of a set of nodes often provides crucial structural information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yuhong Luo , Pan Li

Contrastive learning operates on a simple yet effective principle: Embeddings of positive pairs are pulled together, while those of negative pairs are pushed apart. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for understanding contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chungpa Lee , Sehee Lim , Kibok Lee , Jy-yong Sohn

A two-stage training paradigm consisting of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages has been widely used in current few-shot learning (FSL) research. Many of these methods use self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhanyuan Yang , Jinghua Wang , Yingying Zhu

Contrastive learning (CL), a self-supervised learning approach, can effectively learn visual representations from unlabeled data. Given the CL training data, generative models can be trained to generate synthetic data to supplement the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yawen Wu , Zhepeng Wang , Dewen Zeng , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Contrastive learning with Transformer-based sequence encoder has gained predominance for sequential recommendation. It maximizes the agreements between paired sequence augmentations that share similar semantics. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hanwen Du , Hui Shi , Pengpeng Zhao , Deqing Wang , Victor S. Sheng , Yanchi Liu , Guanfeng Liu , Lei Zhao

Despite recent advancements in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) for time series analysis, a noticeable gap persists between the anticipated achievements and actual performance. While these methods have demonstrated formidable generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Adrian Atienza , Jakob Bardram , Sadasivan Puthusserypady

Neural network based speech recognition systems suffer from performance degradation due to accented speech, especially unfamiliar accents. In this paper, we study the supervised contrastive learning framework for accented speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Tao Han , Hantao Huang , Ziang Yang , Wei Han

Visual contrastive learning aims to learn representations by contrasting similar (positive) and dissimilar (negative) pairs of data samples. The design of these pairs significantly impacts representation quality, training efficiency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Shasvat Desai , Debasmita Ghose , Deep Chakraborty