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We introduce the Temporal Contrastive Transformer (TCT), a representation learning framework designed to capture contextual temporal dynamics in sequences of financial transactions. The model is trained using a self-supervised contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Danny Butvinik , Yonit Marcus , Nitzan Tal , Gabrielle Azoulay

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has been widely applied in the realm of computer vision. However, given the fact that CNN models are translation invariant, they are not aware of the coordinate information of each pixel. Thus the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Liliang Ren , Zhuonan Hao

Recent self-supervised contrastive methods have been able to produce impressive transferable visual representations by learning to be invariant to different data augmentations. However, these methods implicitly assume a particular set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Tete Xiao , Xiaolong Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Trevor Darrell

Conventional works that learn grasping affordance from demonstrations need to explicitly predict grasping configurations, such as gripper approaching angles or grasping preshapes. Classic motion planners could then sample trajectories by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yantian Zha , Siddhant Bhambri , Lin Guan

A few models have tried to tackle the link prediction problem, also known as knowledge graph completion, by embedding knowledge graphs in comparably lower dimensions. However, the state-of-the-art results are attained at the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Peyman Baghershahi , Reshad Hosseini , Hadi Moradi

The complexity of a learning task is increased by transformations in the input space that preserve class identity. Visual object recognition for example is affected by changes in viewpoint, scale, illumination or planar transformations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Andrea Tacchetti , Stephen Voinea , Georgios Evangelopoulos

The superior performance of some of today's state-of-the-art deep learning models is to some extent owed to extensive (self-)supervised contrastive pretraining on large-scale datasets. In contrastive learning, the network is presented with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Shervin Ardeshir , Navid Azizan

Multimodal retrieval, which seeks to retrieve relevant content across modalities such as text or image, supports applications from AI search to contents production. Despite the success of separate-encoder approaches like CLIP align…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Shuyang Cui , Satoshi Hayakawa , Wei-Yao Wang , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

Trajectory similarity measures act as query predicates in trajectory databases, making them the key player in determining the query results. They also have a heavy impact on the query efficiency. An ideal measure should have the capability…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yanchuan Chang , Jianzhong Qi , Yuxuan Liang , Egemen Tanin

Contrastive learning (CL) aims to preserve relational structure between samples by learning representations that reflect a similarity graph. Yet, the geometry of the resulting embeddings remains poorly understood. Here we show that weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Raphael Vock , Edouard Duchesnay , Benoit Dufumier

Long-term forecasting presents unique challenges due to the time and memory complexity of handling long sequences. Existing methods, which rely on sliding windows to process long sequences, struggle to effectively capture long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junwoo Park , Daehoon Gwak , Jaegul Choo , Edward Choi

Contrastive learning has become pivotal in unsupervised representation learning, with frameworks like Momentum Contrast (MoCo) effectively utilizing large negative sample sets to extract discriminative features. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Duy Hoang , Huy Ngo , Khoi Pham , Tri Nguyen , Gia Bao , Huy Phan

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

Ensembling word embeddings to improve distributed word representations has shown good success for natural language processing tasks in recent years. These approaches either carry out straightforward mathematical operations over a set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 James O' Neill , Danushka Bollegala

Due to the lack of depth cues in images, multi-frame inputs are important for the success of vision-based perception, prediction, and planning in autonomous driving. Observations from different angles enable the recovery of 3D object states…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yichen Xie , Hongge Chen , Gregory P. Meyer , Yong Jae Lee , Eric M. Wolff , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan , Yuning Chai , Xin Huang

Heterogeneous Information Network (HIN) embedding refers to the low-dimensional projections of the HIN nodes that preserve the HIN structure and semantics. HIN embedding has emerged as a promising research field for network analysis as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Rayyan Ahmad Khan , Martin Kleinsteuber

Metric learning has become an attractive field for research on the latest years. Loss functions like contrastive loss, triplet loss or multi-class N-pair loss have made possible generating models capable of tackling complex scenarios with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Alfonso Medela , Artzai Picon

Emerging interests have been brought to recognize previously unseen objects given very few training examples, known as few-shot object detection (FSOD). Recent researches demonstrate that good feature embedding is the key to reach favorable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Bo Sun , Banghuai Li , Shengcai Cai , Ye Yuan , Chi Zhang

Scene graphs are a powerful structured representation of the underlying content of images, and embeddings derived from them have been shown to be useful in multiple downstream tasks. In this work, we employ a graph convolutional network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Paridhi Maheshwari , Ritwick Chaudhry , Vishwa Vinay

Contrastive learning-based vision-language pre-training approaches, such as CLIP, have demonstrated great success in many vision-language tasks. These methods achieve cross-modal alignment by encoding a matched image-text pair with similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuxiao Chen , Jianbo Yuan , Yu Tian , Shijie Geng , Xinyu Li , Ding Zhou , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Hongxia Yang