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Autoencoders are commonly trained using element-wise loss. However, element-wise loss disregards high-level structures in the image which can lead to embeddings that disregard them as well. A recent improvement to autoencoders that helps…

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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

We present path2vec, a new approach for learning graph embeddings that relies on structural measures of pairwise node similarities. The model learns representations for nodes in a dense space that approximate a given user-defined graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Andrey Kutuzov , Mohammad Dorgham , Oleksiy Oliynyk , Chris Biemann , Alexander Panchenko

Chromosome recognition is an essential task in karyotyping, which plays a vital role in birth defect diagnosis and biomedical research. However, existing classification methods face significant challenges due to the inter-class similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ruijia Chang , Suncheng Xiang , Chengyu Zhou , Kui Su , Dahong Qian , Jun Wang

Multiview network embedding aims at projecting nodes in the network to low-dimensional vectors, while preserving their multiple relations and attribute information. Contrastive learning approaches have shown promising performance in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Mengqi Zhang , Yanqiao Zhu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Road network and trajectory representation learning are essential for traffic systems since the learned representation can be directly used in various downstream tasks (e.g., traffic speed inference, and travel time estimation). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhenyu Mao , Ziyue Li , Dedong Li , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao

Trajectory representation learning (TRL) aims to encode raw trajectory data into low-dimensional embeddings for downstream tasks such as travel time estimation, mobility prediction, and trajectory similarity analysis. From a behavioral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ji Cao , Yu Wang , Tongya Zheng , Jie Song , Qinghong Guo , Zujie Ren , Canghong Jin , Gang Chen , Mingli Song

Graph contrastive learning defines a contrastive task to pull similar instances close and push dissimilar instances away. It learns discriminative node embeddings without supervised labels, which has aroused increasing attention in the past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lin Shu , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng

Compressed sensing techniques enable efficient acquisition and recovery of sparse, high-dimensional data signals via low-dimensional projections. In this work, we propose Uncertainty Autoencoders, a learning framework for unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-15 Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

Learning a powerful representation from point clouds is a fundamental and challenging problem in the field of computer vision. Different from images where RGB pixels are stored in the regular grid, for point clouds, the underlying semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Feng Yang , Yichao Cao , Qifan Xue , Shuai Jin , Xuanpeng Li , Weigong Zhang

Achieving backward compatibility when rolling out new models can highly reduce costs or even bypass feature re-encoding of existing gallery images for in-production visual retrieval systems. Previous related works usually leverage losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Qiang Meng , Chixiang Zhang , Xiaoqiang Xu , Feng Zhou

The prior self-supervised learning researches mainly select image-level instance discrimination as pretext task. It achieves a fantastic classification performance that is comparable to supervised learning methods. However, with degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Bing Zhao , Jun Li , Hong Zhu

Motion retrieval is crucial for motion acquisition, offering superior precision, realism, controllability, and editability compared to motion generation. Existing approaches leverage contrastive learning to construct a unified embedding…

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Low-frequency word prediction remains a challenge in modern neural machine translation (NMT) systems. Recent adaptive training methods promote the output of infrequent words by emphasizing their weights in the overall training objectives.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Tong Zhang , Wei Ye , Baosong Yang , Long Zhang , Xingzhang Ren , Dayiheng Liu , Jinan Sun , Shikun Zhang , Haibo Zhang , Wen Zhao

Self-supervised methods have shown tremendous success in the field of computer vision, including applications in remote sensing and medical imaging. Most popular contrastive-loss based methods like SimCLR, MoCo, MoCo-v2 use multiple views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Umangi Jain , Alex Wilson , Varun Gulshan

In typical multimodal contrastive learning, such as CLIP, encoders produce one point in the latent representation space for each input. However, one-point representation has difficulty in capturing the relationship and the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Toshimitsu Uesaka , Taiji Suzuki , Yuhta Takida , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Naoki Murata , Yuki Mitsufuji

The contextual information is critical for various computer vision tasks, previous works commonly design plug-and-play modules and structural losses to effectively extract and aggregate the global context. These methods utilize fine-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jing Wang , Jiangyun Li , Wei Li , Lingfei Xuan , Tianxiang Zhang , Wenxuan Wang

Representation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for extracting valuable latent features from complex, high-dimensional data. In financial domains, learning informative representations for assets can be used for tasks like sector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Rian Dolphin , Barry Smyth , Ruihai Dong

State-of-the-art pre-trained image models predominantly adopt a two-stage approach: initial unsupervised pre-training on large-scale datasets followed by task-specific fine-tuning using Cross-Entropy loss~(CE). However, it has been…

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