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We propose SigCLR: Sigmoid Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations. SigCLR utilizes the logistic loss that only operates on pairs and does not require a global view as in the cross-entropy loss used in SimCLR. We show that logistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ömer Veysel Çağatan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning by optimizing geometric objectives, such as invariance to augmentations, variance preservation, and feature decorrelation, without requiring…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-09 M. Hadi Sepanj , Benyamin Ghojogh , Saed Moradi , Paul Fieguth

We introduce a regularization loss based on kernel mean embeddings with rotation-invariant kernels on the hypersphere (also known as dot-product kernels) for self-supervised learning of image representations. Besides being fully competitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Léon Zheng , Gilles Puy , Elisa Riccietti , Patrick Pérez , Rémi Gribonval

Modern high-dimensional methods often adopt the "bet on sparsity" principle, while in supervised multivariate learning statisticians may face "dense" problems with a large number of nonzero coefficients. This paper proposes a novel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Yiyuan She , Jiahui Shen , Chao Zhang

Self-supervised contrastive learning is a powerful tool to learn visual representation without labels. Prior work has primarily focused on evaluating the recognition accuracy of various pre-training algorithms, but has overlooked other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yuanyi Zhong , Haoran Tang , Junkun Chen , Jian Peng , Yu-Xiong Wang

We propose UnMixMatch, a semi-supervised learning framework which can learn effective representations from unconstrained unlabelled data in order to scale up performance. Most existing semi-supervised methods rely on the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

In this paper, we consider a problem of self-supervised learning for small-scale datasets based on contrastive loss between multiple views of the data, which demonstrates the state-of-the-art performance in classification task. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Vitaliy Kinakh , Olga Taran , Svyatoslav Voloshynovskiy

The recent emergence of new algorithms for permuting models into functionally equivalent regions of the solution space has shed some light on the complexity of error surfaces, and some promising properties like mode connectivity. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Heitor Rapela Medeiros , Thomas Dubail , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn an optimal policy from a static dataset, making it particularly valuable in scenarios where data collection is costly, such as robotics. A major challenge in offline RL is distributional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Motoki Omura , Yusuke Mukuta , Kazuki Ota , Takayuki Osa , Tatsuya Harada

Recent advances in contrastive learning have enlightened diverse applications across various semi-supervised fields. Jointly training supervised learning and unsupervised learning with a shared feature encoder becomes a common scheme.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Lirong Wu , Siyuan Li , Stan Z. Li

Uniformity plays an important role in evaluating learned representations, providing insights into self-supervised learning. In our quest for effective uniformity metrics, we pinpoint four principled properties that such metrics should…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Xianghong Fang , Jian Li , Qiang Sun , Benyou Wang

SimCLR is one of the most popular contrastive learning methods for vision tasks. It pre-trains deep neural networks based on a large amount of unlabeled data by teaching the model to distinguish between positive and negative pairs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Han Zhang , Yuan Cao

Unsupervised clustering aims at discovering the semantic categories of data according to some distance measured in the representation space. However, different categories often overlap with each other in the representation space at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dejiao Zhang , Feng Nan , Xiaokai Wei , Shangwen Li , Henghui Zhu , Kathleen McKeown , Ramesh Nallapati , Andrew Arnold , Bing Xiang

Contrastive learning is among the most successful methods for visual representation learning, and its performance can be further improved by jointly performing clustering on the learned representations. However, existing methods for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , JaeEun Nam , Emilio Dorigatti , Bernd Bischl , Shekoofeh Azizi , Mina Rezaei

Contrastive methods have led a recent surge in the performance of self-supervised representation learning (SSL). Recent methods like BYOL or SimSiam purportedly distill these contrastive methods down to their essence, removing bells and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Alexander C. Li , Alexei A. Efros , Deepak Pathak

We consider the general problem of utilizing both labeled and unlabeled data to improve data representation performance. A new semi-supervised learning framework is proposed by combing manifold regularization and data representation methods…

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Recent self-supervised models have demonstrated equal or better performance than supervised methods, opening for AI systems to learn visual representations from practically unlimited data. However, these methods are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Robin Karlsson , Tomoki Hayashi , Keisuke Fujii , Alexander Carballo , Kento Ohtani , Kazuya Takeda

Many Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction works focused on designing advanced architectures to model complex feature interactions but neglected the importance of feature representation learning, e.g., adopting a plain embedding layer for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Fangye Wang , Yingxu Wang , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

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