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A common phenomena confining the representation quality in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is dimensional collapse (also known as rank degeneration), where the learned representations are mapped to a low dimensional subspace of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Ali Saheb Pasand , Reza Moravej , Mahdi Biparva , Ali Ghodsi

Representations learned via self-supervised learning (SSL) can be susceptible to dimensional collapse, where the learned representation subspace is of extremely low dimensionality and thus fails to represent the full data distribution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Hanxun Huang , Ricardo J. G. B. Campello , Sarah Monazam Erfani , Xingjun Ma , Michael E. Houle , James Bailey

Prevention of complete and dimensional collapse of representations has recently become a design principle for self-supervised learning (SSL). However, questions remain in our theoretical understanding: When do those collapses occur? What…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Liu Ziyin , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Masahito Ueda , Hidenori Tanaka

A key factor in effective Self-Supervised learning (SSL) is preventing dimensional collapse, where higher-dimensional representation spaces ($R$) span a lower-dimensional subspace. Therefore, SSL optimization strategies involve guiding a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Kiran Kokilepersaud , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

In this work, we observe a counterintuitive phenomenon in self-supervised learning (SSL): longer training may impair the performance of dense prediction tasks (e.g., semantic segmentation). We refer to this phenomenon as Self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Siran Dai , Qianqian Xu , Peisong Wen , Yang Liu , Qingming Huang

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is an important paradigm for learning representations from unlabelled data, and SSL with neural networks has been highly successful in practice. However current theoretical analysis of SSL is mostly restricted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Pascal Esser , Satyaki Mukherjee , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

In self-supervised representation learning, a common idea behind most of the state-of-the-art approaches is to enforce the robustness of the representations to predefined augmentations. A potential issue of this idea is the existence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Tianyu Hua , Wenxiao Wang , Zihui Xue , Sucheng Ren , Yue Wang , Hang Zhao

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have achieved great success when the amount of labeled data is limited. Within SSL, models learn robust feature representations by solving pretext tasks. One such pretext task is contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jamshid Hassanpour , Vinkle Srivastav , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

In recent years, self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach for extracting valuable representations from unlabeled data. One successful SSL method is contrastive learning, which aims to bring positive examples closer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Zeen Song , Xingzhe Su , Jingyao Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun

Dense Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods address the limitations of using image-level feature representations when handling images with multiple objects. Although the dense features extracted by employing segmentation maps and bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Congpei Qiu , Tong Zhang , Wei Ke , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk

Self-supervised learning (SSL) as an effective paradigm of representation learning has achieved tremendous success on various curated datasets in diverse scenarios. Nevertheless, when facing the long-tailed distribution in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zhihan Zhou , Jiangchao Yao , Feng Hong , Ya Zhang , Bo Han , Yanfeng Wang

In this paper, we investigate the empirical impact of orthogonality regularization (OR) in deep learning, either solo or collaboratively. Recent works on OR showed some promising results on the accuracy. In our ablation study, however, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Ziming Zhang , Wenchi Ma , Yuanwei Wu , Guanghui Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning representations without labeled data. Most SSL approaches rely on strong, well-established, handcrafted data augmentations to generate diverse views for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful method in deep learning, excelling at learning effective representations through contrasting samples from different distributions. However, dimensional collapse, where embeddings converge into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Huanran Li , Manh Nguyen , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have achieved remarkable success in learning image representations allowing invariances in them - but therefore discarding transformation information that some computer vision tasks actually require.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qin Wang , Alessio Quercia , Benjamin Bruns , Abigail Morrison , Hanno Scharr , Kai Krajsek

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently shown remarkable results in closing the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning. The idea is to learn robust features that are invariant to distortions of the input data. Despite its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Bac Nguyen , Stefan Uhlich , Fabien Cardinaux

Anomaly detection algorithms find extensive use in various fields. This area of research has recently made great advances thanks to deep learning. A recent method, the deep Support Vector Data Description (deep SVDD), which is inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Penny Chong , Lukas Ruff , Marius Kloft , Alexander Binder

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has gained remarkable success, for which contrastive learning (CL) plays a key role. However, the recent development of new non-CL frameworks has achieved comparable or better performance with high improvement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Thanh Nguyen , Trung Pham , Chaoning Zhang , Tung Luu , Thang Vu , Chang D. Yoo

Self-supervised visual representation learning aims to learn useful representations without relying on human annotations. Joint embedding approach bases on maximizing the agreement between embedding vectors from different views of the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Li Jing , Pascal Vincent , Yann LeCun , Yuandong Tian

Standard deep learning models that employ the categorical cross-entropy loss are known to perform well at image classification tasks. However, many standard models thus obtained often exhibit issues like feature redundancy, low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Hongjun Choi , Anirudh Som , Pavan Turaga
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