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Several self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have shown that redundancy reduction in the feature embedding space is an effective tool for representation learning. However, these methods consider a narrow notion of redundancy, focusing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 David Zollikofer , Béni Egressy , Frederik Benzing , Matthias Otth , Roger Wattenhofer

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a method that learns the data representation by utilizing supervision inherent in the data. This learning method is in the spotlight in the drug field, lacking annotated data due to time-consuming and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-19 Kisung Moon , Sunyoung Kwon

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has emerged as a significant paradigm in representation learning thanks to its ability to learn without extensive labeled data, its strong generalization capabilities, and its potential for privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiayao Wang , Mohammad Maruf Hasan , Yiping Zhang , Xiaoying Lei , Jiale Zhang , Qilin Wu , Junwu Zhu , Dongfang Zhao

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful tool in machine learning, but understanding the learned representations and their underlying mechanisms remains a challenge. This paper presents an in-depth empirical analysis of SSL-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ido Ben-Shaul , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Tomer Galanti , Shai Dekel , Yann LeCun

A new machine learning methodology, called successive subspace learning (SSL), is introduced in this work. SSL contains four key ingredients: 1) successive near-to-far neighborhood expansion; 2) unsupervised dimension reduction via subspace…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Yueru Chen , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a paradigm that leverages unlabeled data for model training. Empirical studies show that SSL can achieve promising performance in distribution shift scenarios, where the downstream and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xuyang Zhao , Tianqi Du , Yisen Wang , Jun Yao , Weiran Huang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) typically learns representations invariant to semantic-preserving augmentations. While effective for recognition, enforcing strong invariance can suppress transformation-dependent structure that is useful for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Joohyung Lee , Changhun Kim , Hyunsu Kim , Kwanhyung Lee , Juho Lee

The vulnerability of neural network classifiers to adversarial attacks is a major obstacle to their deployment in safety-critical applications. Regularization of network parameters during training can be used to improve adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sheng Yang , Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth , Cengiz Pehlevan

Despite excellent progress in recent years, mode collapse remains a major unsolved problem in generative adversarial networks (GANs).In this paper, we present spectral regularization for GANs (SR-GANs), a new and robust method for combating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kanglin Liu , Wenming Tang , Fei Zhou , Guoping Qiu

Deep learning has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance for a variety of challenging computer vision tasks. On one hand, this has enabled deep visual models to pave the way for a plethora of critical applications like disease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Mohammad A. A. K. Jalwana , Naveed Akhtar , Mohammed Bennamoun , Ajmal Mian

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning approach where the data itself provides supervision, eliminating the need for external labels. The model is forced to learn about the data structure or context by solving a pretext task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Markus Marks , Manuel Knott , Neehar Kondapaneni , Elijah Cole , Thijs Defraeye , Fernando Perez-Cruz , Pietro Perona

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been proven to be a powerful method for leveraging unlabeled data to alleviate models'dependence on large labeled datasets. The common framework among recent approaches is to train the model on a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jun Sun , Wancheng Zhang , Chao Zhou , Zhongjie Mao , Chao Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) excels at finding general-purpose latent representations from complex data, yet lacks a unifying theoretical framework that explains the diverse existing methods and guides the design of new ones. We cast SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Fabian A Mikulasch , Friedemann Zenke

Deep metric learning (DML) aims to learn a discriminative high-dimensional embedding space for downstream tasks like classification, clustering, and retrieval. Prior literature predominantly focuses on pair-based and proxy-based methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Xiruo Jiang , Yazhou Yao , Xili Dai , Fumin Shen , Xian-Sheng Hua , Heng-Tao Shen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful strategy for representation learning under limited annotation regimes, yet its effectiveness remains highly sensitive to many factors, especially the nature of the target task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jorge Quesada , Ghassan AlRegib

Recent progress in self-supervised (SSL) visual representation learning has led to the development of several different proposed frameworks that rely on augmentations of images but use different loss functions. However, there are few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Kumar Krishna Agrawal , Arna Ghosh , Shagun Sodhani , Adam Oberman , Blake Richards

This work addresses the task of self-supervised learning (SSL) on a long-tailed dataset that aims to learn balanced and well-separated representations for downstream tasks such as image classification. This task is crucial because the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Cuong Manh Hoang , Yeejin Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

Whitening loss offers a theoretical guarantee against feature collapse in self-supervised learning (SSL) with joint embedding architectures. Typically, it involves a hard whitening approach, transforming the embedding and applying loss to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xi Weng , Yunhao Ni , Tengwei Song , Jie Luo , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Lei Huang

This study explores the application of self-supervised learning (SSL) for improved target recognition in synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery. The unique challenges of underwater environments make traditional computer vision techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 BW Sheffield