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Self-supervised representation learning is a fundamental problem in computer vision with many useful applications (e.g., image search, instance level recognition, copy detection). In this paper we present a new contrastive self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 David Wu , Yunnan Wu

Self-supervised contrastive learning offers a means of learning informative features from a pool of unlabeled data. In this paper, we delve into another useful approach -- providing a way of selecting a core-set that is entirely unlabeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jeongwoo Ju , Heechul Jung , Yoonju Oh , Junmo Kim

Self-supervised Contrastive Learning (CL) has been recently shown to be very effective in preventing deep networks from overfitting noisy labels. Despite its empirical success, the theoretical understanding of the effect of contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yihao Xue , Kyle Whitecross , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Recent advancements in contrastive learning have revolutionized self-supervised representation learning and achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmark tasks. While most existing methods focus on applying contrastive learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Lihui Liu , Jinha Kim , Vidit Bansal

Neural networks have changed the way machines interpret the world. At their core, they learn by following gradients, adjusting their parameters step by step until they identify the most discriminant patterns in the data. This process gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Samarup Bhattacharya , Anubhab Bhattacharya , Abir Chakraborty

The recently proposed identifiable variational autoencoder (iVAE) framework provides a promising approach for learning latent independent components (ICs). iVAEs use auxiliary covariates to build an identifiable generation structure from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-17 Young-geun Kim , Ying Liu , Xuexin Wei

This paper presents SimCSE, a simple contrastive learning framework that greatly advances state-of-the-art sentence embeddings. We first describe an unsupervised approach, which takes an input sentence and predicts itself in a contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Tianyu Gao , Xingcheng Yao , Danqi Chen

Recently, some contrastive learning methods have been proposed to simultaneously learn representations and clustering assignments, achieving significant improvements. However, these methods do not take the category information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Huasong Zhong , Jianlong Wu , Chong Chen , Jianqiang Huang , Minghua Deng , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin , Xian-Sheng Hua

How can you sample good negative examples for contrastive learning? We argue that, as with metric learning, contrastive learning of representations benefits from hard negative samples (i.e., points that are difficult to distinguish from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Joshua Robinson , Ching-Yao Chuang , Suvrit Sra , Stefanie Jegelka

Self-supervised learning has become a popular way to pretrain a deep learning model and then transfer it to perform downstream tasks. However, most of these methods are developed on large-scale image datasets that contain natural objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Kevin Van Vorst , Li Shen

Contrastive, self-supervised learning of object representations recently emerged as an attractive alternative to reconstruction-based training. Prior approaches focus on contrasting individual object representations (slots) against one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Sindy Löwe , Klaus Greff , Rico Jonschkowski , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Kipf

Contrastive learning has become a cornerstone of modern representation learning, allowing training with massive unlabeled data for both task-specific and general (foundation) models. A prototypical loss in contrastive training is InfoNCE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Roy Betser , Eyal Gofer , Meir Yossef Levi , Guy Gilboa

Contrastive learning has shown great promise in the field of graph representation learning. By manually constructing positive/negative samples, most graph contrastive learning methods rely on the vector inner product based similarity metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Yuehui Han , Le Hui , Haobo Jiang , Jianjun Qian , Jin Xie

Contrastive learning on graphs aims at extracting distinguishable high-level representations of nodes. In this paper, we theoretically illustrate that the entropy of a dataset can be approximated by maximizing the lower bound of the mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yixuan Ma , Xiaolin Zhang , Peng Zhang , Kun Zhan

Test-time entropy minimization helps adapt a model to novel environments and incentivize its reasoning capability, unleashing the model's potential during inference by allowing it to evolve and improve in real-time using its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Guohao Chen , Shuaicheng Niu , Deyu Chen , Jiahao Yang , Zitian Zhang , Mingkui Tan , Pengcheng Wu , Zhiqi Shen

The generalization of representations learned via contrastive learning depends crucially on what features of the data are extracted. However, we observe that the contrastive loss does not always sufficiently guide which features are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Joshua Robinson , Li Sun , Ke Yu , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Stefanie Jegelka , Suvrit Sra

Learning invariant representations is a critical first step in a number of machine learning tasks. A common approach corresponds to the so-called information bottleneck principle in which an application dependent function of mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Aditya Kumar Akash , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande , Sathya N. Ravi , Vikas Singh

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently emerged as a promising approach for graph representation learning. Some existing methods adopt the 1-vs-K scheme to construct one positive and K negative samples for each graph, but it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Minjie Chen , Yao Cheng , Ye Wang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Neural networks are commonly trained to make predictions through learning algorithms. Contrastive Hebbian learning, which is a powerful rule inspired by gradient backpropagation, is based on Hebb's rule and the contrastive divergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Georgios Detorakis , Travis Bartley , Emre Neftci

Recent approaches in self-supervised learning of image representations can be categorized into different families of methods and, in particular, can be divided into contrastive and non-contrastive approaches. While differences between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Quentin Garrido , Yubei Chen , Adrien Bardes , Laurent Najman , Yann Lecun