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Machine learning can greatly benefit from providing learning algorithms with pairs of contrastive training examples -- typically pairs of instances that differ only slightly, yet have different class labels. Intuitively, the difference in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Farnam Mansouri , Hans U. Simon , Adish Singla , Yuxin Chen , Sandra Zilles

Multimodal learning often relies on aligning representations across modalities to enable effective information integration, an approach traditionally assumed to be universally beneficial. However, prior research has primarily taken an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wanlong Fang , Tianle Zhang , Alvin Chan

The goal of contrasting learning is to learn a representation that preserves underlying clusters by keeping samples with similar content, e.g. the ``dogness'' of a dog, close to each other in the space generated by the representation. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Advait Parulekar , Liam Collins , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Aryan Mokhtari , Sanjay Shakkottai

Although the self-supervised pre-training of transformer models has resulted in the revolutionizing of natural language processing (NLP) applications and the achievement of state-of-the-art results with regard to various benchmarks, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Xiang Chen , Xin Xie , Zhen Bi , Hongbin Ye , Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Huajun Chen

Leveraging high-quality joint representations from multimodal data can greatly enhance model performance in various machine-learning based applications. Recent multimodal learning methods, based on the multimodal information bottleneck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qilong Wu , Yiyang Shao , Jun Wang , Xiaobo Sun

We investigate contrastive learning in the federated setting through the lens of SimCLR and multi-view mutual information maximization. In doing so, we uncover a connection between contrastive representation learning and user verification;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Christos Louizos , Matthias Reisser , Denis Korzhenkov

Multi-modal contrastive models such as CLIP achieve state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot classification by embedding input images and texts on a joint representational space. Recently, a modality gap has been reported in two-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Abrar Fahim , Alex Murphy , Alona Fyshe

Multi-modal entity alignment (MMEA) aims to identify equivalent entities between multi-modal knowledge graphs (MMKGs), where the entities can be associated with related images. Most existing studies integrate multi-modal information heavily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Taoyu Su , Jiawei Sheng , Shicheng Wang , Xinghua Zhang , Hongbo Xu , Tingwen Liu

Contrastive learning is a popular form of self-supervised learning that encourages augmentations (views) of the same input to have more similar representations compared to augmentations of different inputs. Recent attempts to theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikunj Saunshi , Jordan Ash , Surbhi Goel , Dipendra Misra , Cyril Zhang , Sanjeev Arora , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy

Understanding why independently trained neural networks from different modalities converge toward shared representations, and where this convergence leads, remains an open question in representation learning. All existing evidence relies on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhaoyang Zhang , Run Shao , Dongyue Wu , Jiajie Teng , Chao Tao , Jingdong Chen , Haifeng Li

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

Adversarial examples, generated by carefully crafted perturbation, have attracted considerable attention in research fields. Recent works have argued that the existence of the robust and non-robust features is a primary cause of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Junho Kim , Byung-Kwan Lee , Yong Man Ro

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis posits that learned representations from models trained on different modalities converge to a shared latent structure of the world. However, this hypothesis has largely been examined in vision and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pratham Yashwante , Rose Yu

As medical diagnoses increasingly leverage multimodal data, machine learning models are expected to effectively fuse heterogeneous information while remaining robust to missing modalities. In this work, we propose a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yi Gu , Kuniaki Saito , Jiaxin Ma

Encoding only the task-related information from the raw data, \ie, disentangled representation learning, can greatly contribute to the robustness and generalizability of models. Although significant advances have been made by regularizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhuohang Dang , Minnan Luo , Chengyou Jia , Guang Dai , Jihong Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Jingdong Wang

Contrastive learning has recently emerged as a promising approach for learning data representations that discover and disentangle the explanatory factors of the data. Previous analyses of such approaches have largely focused on individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Stefan Matthes , Zhiwei Han , Hao Shen

Multi-modal contrastive learning as a self-supervised representation learning technique has achieved great success in foundation model training, such as CLIP~\citep{radford2021learning}. In this paper, we study the theoretical properties of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-20 Yu Gui , Cong Ma , Zongming Ma

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

Contrastive Learning has shown impressive results on natural and medical images, without requiring annotated data. However, a particularity of medical images is the availability of meta-data (such as age or sex) that can be exploited for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Benoit Dufumier , Pietro Gori , Julie Victor , Antoine Grigis , Edouard Duchesnay

Learning good representations involves capturing the diverse ways in which data samples relate. Contrastive loss - an objective matching related samples - underlies methods from self-supervised to multimodal learning. Contrastive losses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Vlad Sobal , Mark Ibrahim , Randall Balestriero , Vivien Cabannes , Diane Bouchacourt , Pietro Astolfi , Kyunghyun Cho , Yann LeCun