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In the era of transformer models, masked self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a foundational training paradigm. A defining feature of masked SSL is that training aggregates predictions across many masking patterns, giving rise to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Arie Wortsman Zurich , Federica Gerace , Bruno Loureiro , Yue M. Lu

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) is an increasingly popular ML paradigm that trains models to transform complex inputs into representations without relying on explicit labels. These representations encode similarity structures that enable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Adam Dziedzic , Nikita Dhawan , Muhammad Ahmad Kaleem , Jonas Guan , Nicolas Papernot

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have shown exceptional capabilities across various speech-processing tasks. Continuous SSL representations are effective but suffer from high computational and storage demands. On the other hand,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shih-heng Wang , Jiatong Shi , Chien-yu Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Hung-yi Lee

Deep supervised learning algorithms typically require a large volume of labeled data to achieve satisfactory performance. However, the process of collecting and labeling such data can be expensive and time-consuming. Self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jie Gui , Tuo Chen , Jing Zhang , Qiong Cao , Zhenan Sun , Hao Luo , Dacheng Tao

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods aim to exploit the abundance of unlabelled data for machine learning (ML), however the underlying principles are often method-specific. An SSL framework derived from biological first principles of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Franz Scherr , Qinghai Guo , Timoleon Moraitis

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning flexible speech representations from unlabeled data. By designing pretext tasks that exploit statistical regularities, SSL models can capture useful…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yusuf Brima , Ulf Krumnack , Simone Pika , Gunther Heidemann

Automated speaking assessment (ASA) typically involves automatic speech recognition (ASR) and hand-crafted feature extraction from the ASR transcript of a learner's speech. Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown stellar…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tien-Hong Lo , Fu-An Chao , Tzu-I Wu , Yao-Ting Sung , Berlin Chen

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) on 3D point clouds has the potential to learn feature representations that can transfer to diverse sensors and multiple downstream perception tasks. However, recent SSL approaches fail to define pretext tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Barza Nisar , Steven L. Waslander

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) leverages large datasets of unlabeled speech to reach impressive performance with reduced amounts of annotated data. The high number of proposed approaches fostered the emergence of comprehensive benchmarks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Salah Zaiem , Youcef Kemiche , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid , Mirco Ravanelli

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) aims to eliminate one of the major bottlenecks in representation learning - the need for human annotations. As a result, SSL holds the promise to learn representations from data in-the-wild, i.e., without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Senthil Purushwalkam , Pedro Morgado , Abhinav Gupta

Joint-embedding self-supervised learning (SSL), the key paradigm for unsupervised representation learning from visual data, learns from invariances between semantically-related data pairs. We study the one-to-many mapping problem in SSL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yipeng Zhang , Hafez Ghaemi , Jungyoon Lee , Shahab Bakhtiari , Eilif B. Muller , Laurent Charlin

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which aims to learn meaningful prior representations from unlabeled data, has been proven effective for skeleton-based action understanding. Different from the image domain, skeleton data possesses sparser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jiahang Zhang , Lilang Lin , Shuai Yang , Jiaying Liu

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

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

While semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms provide an efficient way to make use of both labelled and unlabelled data, they generally struggle when the number of annotated samples is very small. In this work, we consider the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sebastien Ehrhardt , Kai Han , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

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