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Existing data augmentation in self-supervised learning, while diverse, fails to preserve the inherent structure of natural images. This results in distorted augmented samples with compromised semantic information, ultimately impacting…

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Accurate prediction of material properties facilitates the discovery of novel materials with tailored functionalities. Deep learning models have recently shown superior accuracy and flexibility in capturing structure-property relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Chowdhury Mohammad Abid Rahman , Aldo H. Romero , Prashnna K. Gyawali

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm that presents supervisory signals to real-world problems, bypassing the extensive cost of manual labeling. Consequently, self-supervised anomaly detection (SSAD) has seen a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jaemin Yoo , Lingxiao Zhao , Leman Akoglu

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have emerged as strong visual representation learners by training an image encoder to maximize similarity between features of different views of the same image. To perform this view-invariance task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Varun Belagali , Srikar Yellapragada , Alexandros Graikos , Saarthak Kapse , Zilinghan Li , Tarak Nath Nandi , Ravi K Madduri , Prateek Prasanna , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras

Self-supervised learning algorithms (SSL) based on instance discrimination have shown promising results, performing competitively or even outperforming supervised learning counterparts in some downstream tasks. Such approaches employ data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mohammad Alkhalefi , Georgios Leontidis , Mingjun Zhong

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

Contrastive Learning (CL), a leading paradigm in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), typically relies on pairs of data views generated through augmentation. While multiple augmentations per instance (more than two) improve generalization in…

A major limitation in applying deep learning to artificial intelligence (AI) systems is the scarcity of high-quality curated datasets. We investigate strong augmentation based self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques to address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 John D. Miller , Vignesh A. Arasu , Albert X. Pu , Laurie R. Margolies , Weiva Sieh , Li Shen

Data augmentation is critical to the empirical success of modern self-supervised representation learning, such as contrastive learning and masked language modeling. However, a theoretical understanding of the exact role of augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Runtian Zhai , Bingbin Liu , Andrej Risteski , Zico Kolter , Pradeep Ravikumar

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven to be a powerful approach for extracting biologically meaningful representations from single-cell data. To advance our understanding of SSL methods applied to single-cell data, we present…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-13 Olga Ovcharenko , Florian Barkmann , Philip Toma , Imant Daunhawer , Julia Vogt , Sebastian Schelter , Valentina Boeva

Data augmentation is a central component of joint embedding self-supervised learning (SSL). Approaches that work for natural images may not always be effective in medical imaging tasks. This study systematically investigated the impact of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Blake VanBerlo , Alexander Wong , Jesse Hoey , Robert Arntfield

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become the de facto training paradigm of large models where pre-training is followed by supervised fine-tuning using domain-specific data and labels. Hypothesizing that SSL models would learn more generic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Sofia Yfantidou , Dimitris Spathis , Marios Constantinides , Athena Vakali , Daniele Quercia , Fahim Kawsar

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) aims at learning representations of objects without relying on manual labeling. Recently, a number of SSL methods for graph representation learning have achieved performance comparable to SOTA semi-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Zekarias T. Kefato , Sarunas Girdzijauskas , Hannes Stärk

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) aims to learn transferable feature representations for downstream applications without relying on labeled data. The Barlow Twins algorithm, renowned for its widespread adoption and straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Celso M. De Melo , Vishal M. Patel

Supervised learning methods have been found to exhibit inductive biases favoring simpler features. When such features are spuriously correlated with the label, this can result in suboptimal performance on minority subgroups. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Kimia Hamidieh , Haoran Zhang , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has developed rapidly in recent years. However, most of the mainstream methods are computationally expensive and rely on two (or more) augmentations for each image to construct positive pairs. Moreover, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yun-Hao Cao , Jianxin Wu

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

Due to the semantic complexity of the Relation extraction (RE) task, obtaining high-quality human labelled data is an expensive and noisy process. To improve the sample efficiency of the models, semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods aim to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Komal K. Teru