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This paper is concerned with contrastive learning (CL) for low-level image restoration and enhancement tasks. We propose a new label-efficient learning paradigm based on residuals, residual contrastive learning (RCL), and derive an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Nanqing Dong , Matteo Maggioni , Yongxin Yang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

Unsupervised Re-ID methods aim at learning robust and discriminative features from unlabeled data. However, existing methods often ignore the relationship between module parameters of Re-ID framework and feature distributions, which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Ziqi He , Mengjia Xue , Yunhao Du , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su

Distance-based anomaly detection methods rely on compact in-distribution (ID) embeddings that are well separated from anomalies. However, conventional contrastive learning strategies often struggle to achieve this balance, either promoting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Willian T. Lunardi , Abdulrahman Banabila , Dania Herzalla , Martin Andreoni

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks is a fundamental task in network analysis with wide-ranging applications across domains. While deep learning has advanced node influence detection, existing supervised approaches remain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yanmei Hu , Yihang Wu , Bing Sun , Xue Yue , Biao Cai , Xiangtao Li , Yang Chen

Contrastive learning (CL) has achieved astonishing progress in computer vision, speech, and natural language processing fields recently with self-supervised learning. However, CL approach to the supervised setting is not fully explored,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Zhenyu Zhang , Yuming Zhao , Meng Chen , Xiaodong He

Contrastive learning is an efficient approach to self-supervised representation learning. Although recent studies have made progress in the theoretical understanding of contrastive learning, the investigation of how to characterize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hiroki Waida , Yuichiro Wada , Léo Andéol , Takumi Nakagawa , Yuhui Zhang , Takafumi Kanamori

The image-text retrieval task aims to retrieve relevant information from a given image or text. The main challenge is to unify multimodal representation and distinguish fine-grained differences across modalities, thereby finding similar…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Ziyu Gong , Chengcheng Mai , Yihua Huang

Long-tailed semi-supervised learning poses a significant challenge in training models with limited labeled data exhibiting a long-tailed label distribution. Current state-of-the-art LTSSL approaches heavily rely on high-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zi-Hao Zhou , Siyuan Fang , Zi-Jing Zhou , Tong Wei , Yuanyu Wan , Min-Ling Zhang

Environmental Sound Classification (ESC) is a challenging field of research in non-speech audio processing. Most of current research in ESC focuses on designing deep models with special architectures tailored for specific audio datasets,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alireza Nasiri , Jianjun Hu

This paper proposes to perform online clustering by conducting twin contrastive learning (TCL) at the instance and cluster level. Specifically, we find that when the data is projected into a feature space with a dimensionality of the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yunfan Li , Mouxing Yang , Dezhong Peng , Taihao Li , Jiantao Huang , Xi Peng

Through minimization of an appropriate loss function such as the InfoNCE loss, contrastive learning (CL) learns a useful representation function by pulling positive samples close to each other while pushing negative samples far apart in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ruijie Jiang , Thuan Nguyen , Prakash Ishwar , Shuchin Aeron

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a pivotal technique in the domain of graph representation learning. A crucial aspect of effective GCL is the caliber of generated positive and negative samples, which is intrinsically dictated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Xinjian Zhao , Liang Zhang , Yang Liu , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Contrastive Analysis is a sub-field of Representation Learning that aims at separating common factors of variation between two datasets, a background (i.e., healthy subjects) and a target (i.e., diseased subjects), from the salient factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Robin Louiset , Edouard Duchesnay , Antoine Grigis , Pietro Gori

Contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) learns an embedding space that maps similar data pairs closer and dissimilar data pairs farther apart. Despite its success, one issue has been overlooked: the fairness aspect of representations…

Semi-supervised learning acts as an effective way to leverage massive unlabeled data. In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy, termed as Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning (SsCL), which combines the well-known contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yuhang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Robert. C. Qiu , Jie Li , Haohang Xu , Qi Tian

This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

Part feature learning is critical for fine-grained semantic understanding in vehicle re-identification. However, existing approaches directly model part features and global features, which can easily lead to serious gradient vanishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Fei Shen , Xiaoyu Du , Liyan Zhang , Xiangbo Shu , Jinhui Tang

Feature quality is paramount for classification performance, particularly in few-shot scenarios. Contrastive learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing feature quality, leverages sample relations to extract intrinsic features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Guowei Yin , Sheng Huang , Luwen Huangfu , Yi Zhang , Xiaohong Zhang

Adversarial contrastive learning (ACL) does not require expensive data annotations but outputs a robust representation that withstands adversarial attacks and also generalizes to a wide range of downstream tasks. However, ACL needs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Xilie Xu , Jingfeng Zhang , Feng Liu , Masashi Sugiyama , Mohan Kankanhalli

Representations of events described in text are important for various tasks. In this work, we present SWCC: a Simultaneous Weakly supervised Contrastive learning and Clustering framework for event representation learning. SWCC learns event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jun Gao , Wei Wang , Changlong Yu , Huan Zhao , Wilfred Ng , Ruifeng Xu