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Contrastive learning (CL) has become the de-facto learning paradigm in self-supervised learning on graphs, which generally follows the "augmenting-contrasting" learning scheme. However, we observe that unlike CL in computer vision domain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Wen-Zhi Li , Chang-Dong Wang , Hui Xiong , Jian-Huang Lai

State-of-the-art natural language understanding classification models follow two-stages: pre-training a large language model on an auxiliary task, and then fine-tuning the model on a task-specific labeled dataset using cross-entropy loss.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Beliz Gunel , Jingfei Du , Alexis Conneau , Ves Stoyanov

Contrastive learning (CL), a self-supervised learning approach, can effectively learn visual representations from unlabeled data. Given the CL training data, generative models can be trained to generate synthetic data to supplement the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yawen Wu , Zhepeng Wang , Dewen Zeng , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Self-supervised learning is a machine learning approach that generates implicit labels by learning underlined patterns and extracting discriminative features from unlabeled data without manual labelling. Contrastive learning introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Asifullah Khan , Laiba Asmatullah , Anza Malik , Shahzaib Khan , Hamna Asif

Unsupervised learning algorithms are beginning to achieve accuracies comparable to their supervised counterparts on benchmark computer vision tasks, but their utility for practical applications has not yet been demonstrated. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Jeremiah W. Johnson , Swathi Hari , Donald Hampton , Hyunju K. Connor , Amy Keesee

Contrastive learning, a dominant self-supervised technique, emphasizes similarity in representations between augmentations of the same input and dissimilarity for different ones. Although low contrastive loss often correlates with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yunzhe Zhang , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan

Contrastive Self-supervised Learning (CSL) is a practical solution that learns meaningful visual representations from massive data in an unsupervised approach. The ordinary CSL embeds the features extracted from neural networks onto…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Shentong Mo , Zhun Sun , Chao Li

For years, adversarial training has been extensively studied in natural language processing (NLP) settings. The main goal is to make models robust so that similar inputs derive in semantically similar outcomes, which is not a trivial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Daniela N. Rim , DongNyeong Heo , Heeyoul Choi

Unsupervised learning has been a long-standing goal of machine learning and is especially important for medical image analysis, where the learning can compensate for the scarcity of labeled datasets. A promising subclass of unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Ozan Ciga , Tony Xu , Anne L. Martel

Self-supervised learning has gained popularity because of its ability to avoid the cost of annotating large-scale datasets. It is capable of adopting self-defined pseudo labels as supervision and use the learned representations for several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ashish Jaiswal , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Mohammad Zaki Zadeh , Debapriya Banerjee , Fillia Makedon

Contrastive learning (CL) has shown impressive advances in image representation learning in whichever supervised multi-class classification or unsupervised learning. However, these CL methods fail to be directly adapted to multi-label image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhongchen Ma , Lisha Li , Qirong Mao , Songcan Chen

Self-supervised visual pretraining has shown significant progress recently. Among those methods, SimCLR greatly advanced the state of the art in self-supervised and semi-supervised learning on ImageNet. The input feature representations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Dongwei Jiang , Wubo Li , Miao Cao , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Tremendous breakthroughs have been developed in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (S4) through contrastive learning. However, due to limited annotations, the guidance on unlabeled images is generated by the model itself, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Haoyu Xie , Changqi Wang , Jian Zhao , Yang Liu , Jun Dan , Chong Fu , Baigui Sun

Contrastive learning (CL) has recently been demonstrated critical in improving recommendation performance. The underlying principle of CL-based recommendation models is to ensure the consistency between representations derived from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Junliang Yu , Xin Xia , Tong Chen , Lizhen Cui , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hongzhi Yin

Contrastive learning is commonly used as a method of self-supervised learning with the "anchor" and "positive" being two random augmentations of a given input image, and the "negative" is the set of all other images. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Rishab Balasubramanian , Kunal Rathore

Multimodal Contrastive Learning (MCL) advances in aligning different modalities and generating multimodal representations in a joint space. By leveraging contrastive learning across diverse modalities, large-scale multimodal data enhances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Anomaly detection aims at identifying deviant samples from the normal data distribution. Contrastive learning has provided a successful way to sample representation that enables effective discrimination on anomalies. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Gaoang Wang , Yibing Zhan , Xinchao Wang , Mingli Song , Klara Nahrstedt

Deterministic embeddings learned by contrastive learning (CL) methods such as SimCLR and SupCon achieve state-of-the-art performance but lack a principled mechanism for uncertainty quantification. We propose Variational Contrastive Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Minoh Jeong , Seonho Kim , Alfred Hero

Contrastive learning has revolutionized the field of computer vision, learning rich representations from unlabeled data, which generalize well to diverse vision tasks. Consequently, it has become increasingly important to explain these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Fawaz Sammani , Boris Joukovsky , Nikos Deligiannis

Contrastive learning has been proven beneficial for self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition. Most contrastive learning methods utilize carefully designed augmentations to generate different movement patterns of skeletons for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jiahang Zhang , Lilang Lin , Jiaying Liu