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Self-supervised contrastive representation learning has proved incredibly successful in the vision and natural language domains, enabling state-of-the-art performance with orders of magnitude less labeled data. However, such methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dara Bahri , Heinrich Jiang , Yi Tay , Donald Metzler

Recently, self-supervised representation learning gives further development in multimedia technology. Most existing self-supervised learning methods are applicable to packaged data. However, when it comes to streamed data, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Hongxiang Lin

Contrastive learning has gained popularity and pushes state-of-the-art performance across numerous large-scale benchmarks. In contrastive learning, the contrastive loss function plays a pivotal role in discerning similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haojin Deng , Yimin Yang

Recent progress in contrastive learning has revolutionized unsupervised representation learning. Concretely, multiple views (augmentations) from the same image are encouraged to map to the similar embeddings, while views from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Nanxuan Zhao , Zhirong Wu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Stephen Lin

We introduce CAN, a simple, efficient and scalable method for self-supervised learning of visual representations. Our framework is a minimal and conceptually clean synthesis of (C) contrastive learning, (A) masked autoencoders, and (N) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shlok Mishra , Joshua Robinson , Huiwen Chang , David Jacobs , Aaron Sarna , Aaron Maschinot , Dilip Krishnan

For medical image segmentation, contrastive learning is the dominant practice to improve the quality of visual representations by contrasting semantically similar and dissimilar pairs of samples. This is enabled by the observation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Chenyu You , Weicheng Dai , Yifei Min , Fenglin Liu , David A. Clifton , S Kevin Zhou , Lawrence Hamilton Staib , James S Duncan

Self-supervised representation learning has made significant leaps fueled by progress in contrastive learning, which seeks to learn transformations that embed positive input pairs nearby, while pushing negative pairs far apart. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Tri Huynh , Simon Kornblith , Matthew R. Walter , Michael Maire , Maryam Khademi

Contrastive learning relies on constructing a collection of negative examples that are sufficiently hard to discriminate against positive queries when their representations are self-trained. Existing contrastive learning methods either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Qianjiang Hu , Xiao Wang , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained much attention from the computer vision community because of the recent achievement of contrastive learning. Most of the existing contrastive learning frameworks adopt the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Shan You , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Contrastive learning operates on a simple yet effective principle: Embeddings of positive pairs are pulled together, while those of negative pairs are pushed apart. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for understanding contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chungpa Lee , Sehee Lim , Kibok Lee , Jy-yong Sohn

Contrastive learning is a well-established paradigm in representation learning. The standard framework of contrastive learning minimizes the distance between "similar" instances and maximizes the distance between dissimilar ones in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Naghmeh Ghanooni , Barbod Pajoum , Harshit Rawal , Sophie Fellenz , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Marius Kloft

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) based on instance discrimination typically attracts positive samples while repelling negatives to learn representations with pre-defined binary self-supervision. However, vanilla CSL is inadequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Yifei Zhang , Chang Liu , Yu Zhou , Weiping Wang , Qixiang Ye , Xiangyang Ji

Feature representation via self-supervised learning has reached remarkable success in image-level contrastive learning, which brings impressive performances on image classification tasks. While image-level feature representation mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Junwei Yang , Ke Zhang , Zhaolin Cui , Jinming Su , Junfeng Luo , Xiaolin Wei

In the past few years, we have witnessed remarkable breakthroughs in self-supervised representation learning. Despite the success and adoption of representations learned through this paradigm, much is yet to be understood about how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Klemen Kotar , Gabriel Ilharco , Ludwig Schmidt , Kiana Ehsani , Roozbeh Mottaghi

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

Contrastive learning produces coherent semantic feature embeddings by encouraging positive samples to cluster closely while separating negative samples. However, existing contrastive learning methods lack principled guarantees on coverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yahya Alkhatib , Wee Peng Tay

Robust radio signal recognition is fundamental to spectrum management, electromagnetic space security, and intelligent wireless applications, yet existing deep-learning methods rely heavily on large labeled datasets and struggle to capture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shilian Zheng , Jie Chen , Luxin Zhang , Xiaoniu Yang

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

Labeling videos at scale is impractical. Consequently, self-supervised visual representation learning is key for efficient video analysis. Recent success in learning image representations suggests contrastive learning is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Nishant Rai , Ehsan Adeli , Kuan-Hui Lee , Adrien Gaidon , Juan Carlos Niebles

Variable names are critical for conveying intended program behavior. Machine learning-based program analysis methods use variable name representations for a wide range of tasks, such as suggesting new variable names and bug detection.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Qibin Chen , Jeremy Lacomis , Edward J. Schwartz , Graham Neubig , Bogdan Vasilescu , Claire Le Goues