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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently achieved tremendous empirical advancements in learning image representation. However, our understanding of the principle behind learning such a representation is still limited. This work shows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yubei Chen , Adrien Bardes , Zengyi Li , Yann LeCun

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful strategy for representation learning under limited annotation regimes, yet its effectiveness remains highly sensitive to many factors, especially the nature of the target task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jorge Quesada , Ghassan AlRegib

We propose GAN-Supervised Learning, a framework for learning discriminative models and their GAN-generated training data jointly end-to-end. We apply our framework to the dense visual alignment problem. Inspired by the classic Congealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 William Peebles , Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang , Antonio Torralba , Alexei A. Efros , Eli Shechtman

In this work, we revisit the semi-supervised learning (SSL) problem from a new perspective of explicitly reducing empirical distribution mismatch between labeled and unlabeled samples. Benefited from this new perspective, we first propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Feiyu Wang , Qin Wang , Wen Li , Dong Xu , Luc Van Gool

Consistency regularization has prevailed in semi-supervised semantic segmentation and achieved promising performance. However, existing methods typically concentrate on enhancing the Image-augmentation based Prediction consistency and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jianjian Yin , Tao Chen , Gensheng Pei , Yazhou Yao , Liqiang Nie , Xiansheng Hua

Pixel-level labels are particularly expensive to acquire. Hence, pretraining is a critical step to improve models on a task like semantic segmentation. However, prominent algorithms for pretraining neural networks use image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mathilde Caron , Neil Houlsby , Cordelia Schmid

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning by optimizing geometric objectives, such as invariance to augmentations, variance preservation, and feature decorrelation, without requiring…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-09 M. Hadi Sepanj , Benyamin Ghojogh , Saed Moradi , Paul Fieguth

Recent progress in self-supervised (SSL) visual representation learning has led to the development of several different proposed frameworks that rely on augmentations of images but use different loss functions. However, there are few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Kumar Krishna Agrawal , Arna Ghosh , Shagun Sodhani , Adam Oberman , Blake Richards

Vision-language models, such as CLIP, have achieved significant success in aligning visual and textual representations, becoming essential components of many multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) like LLaVA and OpenFlamingo. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shizhan Gong , Yankai Jiang , Qi Dou , Farzan Farnia

Self-supervised learning (SSL) representation for speech has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on several downstream tasks. However, there remains room for improvement in speech enhancement (SE) tasks. In this study, we used a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Szu-wei Fu , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Tien Chiang , Yu Tsao , Chii-Wann Lin

In this paper, we introduce a novel self-supervised learning (SSL) loss for image representation learning. There is a growing belief that generalization in deep neural networks is linked to their ability to discriminate object shapes. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sepehr Sameni , Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

Deep learning has achieved significant success in single hyperspectral image super-resolution (SHSR); however, the high spectral dimensionality leads to a heavy computational burden, thus making it difficult to deploy in real-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Haohan Shi , Fei Zhou , Xin Sun , Jungong Han

Despite the empirical successes of self-supervised learning (SSL) methods, it is unclear what characteristics of their representations lead to high downstream accuracies. In this work, we characterize properties that SSL representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yann Dubois , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Stefano Ermon , Percy Liang

Many physics-informed machine learning methods for PDE-based problems rely on Gaussian processes (GPs) or neural networks (NNs). However, both face limitations when data are scarce and the dimensionality is high. Although GPs are known for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Weihao Yan , Christoph Brune , Mengwu Guo

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm to mitigate the reliance on large, annotated datasets, a common bottleneck in medical image analysis. However, standard SSL methods, which rely on simple geometric and color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Joao Batista Florindo

Self-supervised learning (SSL)-based speech models are extensively used for full-stack speech processing. However, it has been observed that improving SSL-based speech representations using unlabeled speech for content-related tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Amit Meghanani , Thomas Hain

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been shown to be a powerful approach for learning visual representations. In this study, we propose incorporating ZCA whitening as the final layer of the encoder in self-supervised learning to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 András Kalapos , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently advanced through non-contrastive methods that couple an invariance term with variance, covariance, or redundancy-reduction penalties. While such objectives shape first- and second-order statistics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Benyamin Ghojogh , M. Hadi Sepanj , Paul Fieguth

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for deriving general representations from vast amounts of unlabeled data. However, as real-world applications continually integrate new content, the high computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenzhuo Liu , Fei Zhu , Cheng-Lin Liu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) excels at finding general-purpose latent representations from complex data, yet lacks a unifying theoretical framework that explains the diverse existing methods and guides the design of new ones. We cast SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Fabian A Mikulasch , Friedemann Zenke