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We investigate whether self-supervised learning (SSL) can improve online reinforcement learning (RL) from pixels. We extend the contrastive reinforcement learning framework (e.g., CURL) that jointly optimizes SSL and RL losses and conduct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xiang Li , Jinghuan Shang , Srijan Das , Michael S. Ryoo

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods operate on unlabeled data to learn robust representations useful for downstream tasks. Most SSL methods rely on augmentations obtained by transforming the 2D image pixel map. These augmentations ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Sumukh Aithal , Anirudh Goyal , Alex Lamb , Yoshua Bengio , Michael Mozer

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful technique for learning visual representations. While recent SSL approaches achieve strong results in global image understanding, they are limited in capturing the structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Oussama Hadjerci , Antoine Letienne , Mohamed Abbas Hedjazi , Adel Hafiane

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has been shown to learn useful and information-preserving representations. Neural Networks (NNs) are widely applied, yet their weight space is still not fully understood. Therefore, we propose to use SSL to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Konstantin Schürholt , Dimche Kostadinov , Damian Borth

In this paper, we propose an algorithm that can be used on top of a wide variety of self-supervised (SSL) approaches to take advantage of hierarchical structures that emerge during training. SSL approaches typically work through some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Kiran Kokilepersaud , Seulgi Kim , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently advanced through non-contrastive methods that couple an invariance term with variance, covariance, or redundancy-reduction penalties. While such objectives shape first- and second-order statistics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Benyamin Ghojogh , M. Hadi Sepanj , Paul Fieguth

The success of self-supervised learning (SSL) has been the focus of multiple recent theoretical and empirical studies, including the role of data augmentation (in feature decoupling) as well as complete and dimensional representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Salman Mohamadi , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh

The promise of self-supervised learning (SSL) is to leverage large amounts of unlabeled data to solve complex tasks. While there has been excellent progress with simple, image-level learning, recent methods have shown the advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Olivier J. Hénaff , Skanda Koppula , Evan Shelhamer , Daniel Zoran , Andrew Jaegle , Andrew Zisserman , João Carreira , Relja Arandjelović

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a growing torrent that has recently transformed machine learning and its many real world applications, by learning on massive amounts of unlabeled data via self-generated supervisory signals. Unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Leman Akoglu , Jaemin Yoo

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning representations without labeled data, often by enforcing invariance to input transformations such as rotations or blurring. Recent studies have highlighted two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Julie Mordacq , David Loiseaux , Vicky Kalogeiton , Steve Oudot

We present a novel objective function for cluster-based self-supervised learning (SSL) that is designed to circumvent the triad of failure modes, namely representation collapse, cluster collapse, and the problem of invariance to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Emanuele Sansone

Despite the empirical successes of self-supervised learning (SSL) methods, it is unclear what characteristics of their representations lead to high downstream accuracies. In this work, we characterize properties that SSL representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yann Dubois , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Stefano Ermon , Percy Liang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved great success in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, the mechanism of how SSL works in these tasks remains a mystery. In this paper, we study how SSL can enhance the performance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jiuhai Chen , Chen Zhu , Bin Dai

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the challenge of limited labeled data in deep neural networks (DNNs), offering scalability potential. However, the impact of design dependencies within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Shruthi Gowda , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

In this paper, we introduce a novel self-supervised learning (SSL) loss for image representation learning. There is a growing belief that generalization in deep neural networks is linked to their ability to discriminate object shapes. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sepehr Sameni , Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

Contrastive Learning (CL) has shown promising performance in collaborative filtering. The key idea is to generate augmentation-invariant embeddings by maximizing the Mutual Information between different augmented views of the same instance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Huiyuan Chen , Vivian Lai , Hongye Jin , Zhimeng Jiang , Mahashweta Das , Xia Hu

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

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Huanran Li , Manh Nguyen , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised learning (SSL) method for representations that enable logic operations. Representation learning has been applied to various tasks, such as image generation and retrieval. The logical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Hiroki Nakamura , Masashi Okada , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Deep Learning is often depicted as a trio of data-architecture-loss. Yet, recent Self Supervised Learning (SSL) solutions have introduced numerous additional design choices, e.g., a projector network, positive views, or teacher-student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mark Ibrahim , David Klindt , Randall Balestriero

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods harness the concept of semantic invariance by utilizing data augmentation strategies to produce similar representations for different deformations of the same input. Essentially, the model captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Huijie Guo , Ying Ba , Jie Hu , Lingyu Si , Wenwen Qiang , Lei Shi