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We propose Domain-Conditioned Meta-Contrastive Learning, a framework for improving the cross-domain generalization of vision-language models. While contrastive models such as CLIP achieve strong performance through large-scale training,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Merham Fouladvand , Peuroly Batra

Contrastive learning has recently established itself as a powerful self-supervised learning framework for extracting rich and versatile data representations. Broadly speaking, contrastive learning relies on a data augmentation scheme to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ilgee Hong , Huy Tran , Claire Donnat

A two-stage training paradigm consisting of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages has been widely used in current few-shot learning (FSL) research. Many of these methods use self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhanyuan Yang , Jinghua Wang , Yingying Zhu

We present a representation learning framework for financial time series forecasting. One challenge of using deep learning models for finance forecasting is the shortage of available training data when using small datasets. Direct trend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Hanwei Wu , Ather Gattami , Markus Flierl

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

Multi-modal contrastive learning with language supervision has presented a paradigm shift in modern machine learning. By pre-training on a web-scale dataset, multi-modal contrastive learning can learn high-quality representations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Wei Huang , Andi Han , Yongqiang Chen , Yuan Cao , Zhiqiang Xu , Taiji Suzuki

Multimodal learning has recently gained significant popularity, demonstrating impressive performance across various zero-shot classification tasks and a range of perceptive and generative applications. Models such as Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Can Yaras , Siyi Chen , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

Music retrieval and recommendation applications often rely on content features encoded as embeddings, which provide vector representations of items in a music dataset. Numerous complementary embeddings can be derived from processing items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Andres Ferraro , Jaehun Kim , Sergio Oramas , Andreas Ehmann , Fabien Gouyon

Universal Multimodal embedding models built on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have traditionally employed contrastive learning, which aligns representations of query-target pairs across different modalities. Yet, despite its…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Geonmo Gu , Byeongho Heo , Jaemyung Yu , Jaehui Hwang , Taekyung Kim , Sangmin Lee , HeeJae Jun , Yoohoon Kang , Sangdoo Yun , Dongyoon Han

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

Learning discriminative image representations plays a vital role in long-tailed image classification because it can ease the classifier learning in imbalanced cases. Given the promising performance contrastive learning has shown recently in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Peng Wang , Kai Han , Xiu-Shen Wei , Lei Zhang , Lei Wang

Contrastive representation learning has been recently proved to be very efficient for self-supervised training. These methods have been successfully used to train encoders which perform comparably to supervised training on downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ibrahim Merad , Yiyang Yu , Emmanuel Bacry , Stéphane Gaïffas

In recent years, self-supervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition has advanced with the development of contrastive learning methods. However, most of contrastive paradigms are inherently discriminative and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dang Dinh Nguyen , Decky Aspandi Latif , Titus Zaharia

In neutrino physics, analyses often depend on large simulated datasets, making it essential for models to generalise effectively to real-world detector data. Contrastive learning, a well-established technique in deep learning, offers a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-23 Alex Wilkinson , Radi Radev , Saul Alonso-Monsalve

We tackle the cross-modal retrieval problem, where learning is only supervised by relevant multi-modal pairs in the data. Although the contrastive learning is the most popular approach for this task, it makes potentially wrong assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Minyoung Kim

Despite the impressive results achieved by multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their training typically relies on jointly curated multimodal data, requiring substantial human effort to construct multi-way aligned datasets and thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yan Li , Yunlong Deng , Yuewen Sun , Gongxu Luo , Kun Zhang , Guangyi Chen

Recent methods for reinforcement learning from images use auxiliary tasks to learn image features that are used by the agent's policy or Q-function. In particular, methods based on contrastive learning that induce linearity of the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Bang You , Oleg Arenz , Youping Chen , Jan Peters

The impressive performance of GPT-3 using natural language prompts and in-context learning has inspired work on better fine-tuning of moderately-sized models under this paradigm. Following this line of work, we present a contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yiren Jian , Chongyang Gao , Soroush Vosoughi

Multi-label image classification presents a challenging task in many domains, including computer vision and medical imaging. Recent advancements have introduced graph-based and transformer-based methods to improve performance and capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Humans view the world through many sensory channels, e.g., the long-wavelength light channel, viewed by the left eye, or the high-frequency vibrations channel, heard by the right ear. Each view is noisy and incomplete, but important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Yonglong Tian , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola