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Self-supervised learning (SSL) is currently one of the premier techniques to create data representations that are actionable for transfer learning in the absence of human annotations. Despite their success, the underlying geometry of these…

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) enables training performant models using limited labeled data. One of the pillars underlying vision SSL is the use of data augmentations/perturbations of the input which do not significantly alter its semantic…

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In order to reduce overfitting, neural networks are typically trained with data augmentation, the practice of artificially generating additional training data via label-preserving transformations of existing training examples. While these…

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Self-supervised contrastive learning is among the recent representation learning methods that have shown performance gains in several downstream tasks including semantic segmentation. This paper evaluates strong data augmentation, one of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Azeez Idris , Abdurahman Ali Mohammed , Samuel Fanijo

The fundamental goal of self-supervised learning (SSL) is to produce useful representations of data without access to any labels for classifying the data. Modern methods in SSL, which form representations based on known or constructed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Bobak T. Kiani , Randall Balestriero , Yubei Chen , Seth Lloyd , Yann LeCun

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) learns high-quality representations from large pools of unlabeled training data. As datasets grow larger, it becomes crucial to identify the examples that contribute the most to learning such representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Siddharth Joshi , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

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) has demonstrated its effectiveness in learning representations through comparison methods that align with human intuition. However, mainstream SSL methods heavily rely on high body datasets with single label,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiale Chen

The rapid advancement in self-supervised representation learning has highlighted its potential to leverage unlabeled data for learning rich visual representations. However, the existing techniques, particularly those employing different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Sana Ayromlou , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Fereshteh Forghani , Arash Afkanpour

Self-Supervised learning (SSL) with Joint-Embedding Architectures (JEA) has led to outstanding performances. All instantiations of this paradigm were trained using strong and well-established hand-crafted data augmentations, leading to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Théo Moutakanni , Maxime Oquab , Marc Szafraniec , Maria Vakalopoulou , Piotr Bojanowski

Self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to find meaningful representations from unlabeled data by encoding semantic similarities through data augmentations. Despite its current popularity, theoretical insights about SSL are still scarce. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Maximilian Fleissner , Pascal Esser , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

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

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) are designed to predict users' future behaviors based on their historical interaction data. Recent research has increasingly utilized contrastive learning (CL) to leverage unsupervised signals to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peilin Zhou , You-Liang Huang , Yueqi Xie , Jingqi Gao , Shoujin Wang , Jae Boum Kim , Sunghun Kim

In recent years, self-supervised learning has been studied to deal with the limitation of available labeled-dataset. Among the major components of self-supervised learning, the data augmentation pipeline is one key factor in enhancing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Van-Nhiem Tran , Chi-En Huang , Shen-Hsuan Liu , Kai-Lin Yang , Timothy Ko , Yung-Hui Li

Recent analyses of self-supervised learning (SSL) find the following data-centric properties to be critical for learning good representations: invariance to task-irrelevant semantics, separability of classes in some latent space, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Puja Trivedi , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Mark Heimann , Danai Koutra , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Underlying data structures, such as symmetries or invariances to transformations, are often exploited to improve the solution of learning tasks. However, embedding these properties in models or learning algorithms can be challenging and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ignacio Hounie , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

Despite profound successes, contrastive representation learning relies on carefully designed data augmentations using domain specific knowledge. This challenge is magnified in natural language processing where no general rules exist for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Dejiao Zhang , Wei Xiao , Henghui Zhu , Xiaofei Ma , Andrew O. Arnold

Self-supervised contrastive learning heavily relies on the view variance brought by data augmentation, so that it can learn a view-invariant pre-trained representation. Beyond increasing the view variance for contrast, this work focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yong Zhang , Rui Zhu , Shifeng Zhang , Xu Zhou , Shifeng Chen , Xiaofan Chen

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