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Standard contrastive learning approaches usually require a large number of negatives for effective unsupervised learning and often exhibit slow convergence. We suspect this behavior is due to the suboptimal selection of negatives used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Anshul Shah , Suvrit Sra , Rama Chellappa , Anoop Cherian

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success in self-supervised representation learning, often guided by information-theoretic objectives such as mutual information maximization. Motivated by the limitations of static augmentations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiansong Zhang , Zhuoqin Yang , Xu Wu , Xiaoling Luo , Peizhong Liu , Linlin Shen

For a widely-studied data model and general loss and sample-hardening functions we prove that the losses of Supervised Contrastive Learning (SCL), Hard-SCL (HSCL), and Unsupervised Contrastive Learning (UCL) are minimized by representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ruijie Jiang , Thuan Nguyen , Shuchin Aeron , Prakash Ishwar

Neural networks exhibit severe brittleness to semantically irrelevant transformations. A mere 75ms electrocardiogram (ECG) phase shift degrades latent cosine similarity from 1.0 to 0.2, while sensor rotations collapse activity recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Zhengyang Shen , Hua Tu , Mayue Shi

Visual recognition is recently learned via either supervised learning on human-annotated image-label data or language-image contrastive learning with webly-crawled image-text pairs. While supervised learning may result in a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Bin Xiao , Ce Liu , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

Despite its empirical success, the theoretical foundations of self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) are not yet fully established. In this work, we address this gap by showing that standard CL objectives implicitly approximate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Achleshwar Luthra , Tianbao Yang , Tomer Galanti

We introduce EfficientCL, a memory-efficient continual pretraining method that applies contrastive learning with novel data augmentation and curriculum learning. For data augmentation, we stack two types of operation sequentially: cutoff…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Seonghyeon Ye , Jiseon Kim , Alice Oh

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

Contrastive learning (CL) has recently emerged as an effective approach to learning representation in a range of downstream tasks. Central to this approach is the selection of positive (similar) and negative (dissimilar) sets to provide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Seyit Camtepe , Dinh Phung

Contrastive learning has demonstrated promising potential in recommender systems. Existing methods typically construct sparser views by randomly perturbing the original interaction graph, as they have no idea about the authentic user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Xufeng Liang , Zhida Qin , Chong Zhang , Tianyu Huang , Gangyi Ding

In this work, we present Multi-Level Contrastive Learning for Dense Prediction Task (MCL), an efficient self-supervised method for learning region-level feature representation for dense prediction tasks. Our method is motivated by the three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Qiushan Guo , Yizhou Yu , Yi Jiang , Jiannan Wu , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

Contrastive learning (CL) is a predominant technique in image classification, but they showed limited performance with an imbalanced dataset. Recently, several supervised CL methods have been proposed to promote an ideal regular simplex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sumin Roh , Harim Kim , Ho Yun Lee , Il Yong Chun

Self-supervised contrastive learning (SSCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning and has been studied from multiple perspectives, including mutual information and geometric viewpoints. However, supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Minoh Jeong , Alfred Hero

While contrastive learning is proven to be an effective training strategy in computer vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is only recently adopting it as a self-supervised alternative to Masked Language Modeling (MLM) for improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hooman Sedghamiz , Shivam Raval , Enrico Santus , Tuka Alhanai , Mohammad Ghassemi

In this work, we aim to consider the application of contrastive learning in the scenario of the recommendation system adequately, making it more suitable for recommendation task. We propose a learning paradigm called supervised contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Chun Yang

We propose Graph Contrastive Learning (GraphCL), a general framework for learning node representations in a self supervised manner. GraphCL learns node embeddings by maximizing the similarity between the representations of two randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Hakim Hafidi , Mounir Ghogho , Philippe Ciblat , Ananthram Swami

Complementary-Label Learning (CLL) is a weakly-supervised learning problem that aims to learn a multi-class classifier from only complementary labels, which indicate a class to which an instance does not belong. Existing approaches mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Wei-I Lin , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Contrastive learning has been widely applied to graph representation learning, where the view generators play a vital role in generating effective contrastive samples. Most of the existing contrastive learning methods employ pre-defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yihang Yin , Qingzhong Wang , Siyu Huang , Haoyi Xiong , Xiang Zhang

Contrastive Learning (CL) enhances the training of sequential recommendation (SR) models through informative self-supervision signals. Existing methods often rely on data augmentation strategies to create positive samples and promote…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhikai Wang , Yanyan Shen , Zexi Zhang , Li He , Yichun Li , Hao Gu , Yinghua Zhang

The success of deep learning heavily depends on the availability of large labeled training sets. However, it is hard to get large labeled datasets in medical image domain because of the strict privacy concern and costly labeling efforts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Dewen Zeng , Yawen Wu , Xinrong Hu , Xiaowei Xu , Haiyun Yuan , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang , Jingtong Hu , Yiyu Shi
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