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Deep learning has revolutionized medical image segmentation, but it relies heavily on high-quality annotations. The time, cost and expertise required to label images at the pixel-level for each new task has slowed down widespread adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Maxime Seince , Loic Le Folgoc , Luiz Augusto Facury de Souza , Elsa Angelini

Non-contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) is an effective framework for predictive representation learning, but popular (and in practice effective) methods such as SimSiam, BYOL, I-JEPA or DINO, which rely on a form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Michael Arbel , Basile Terver , Jean Ponce

Inspired by the success of Self-supervised learning (SSL) in learning visual representations from unlabeled data, a few recent works have studied SSL in the context of continual learning (CL), where multiple tasks are learned sequentially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Li Yang , Sen Lin , Fan Zhang , Junshan Zhang , Deliang Fan

Detectingandsegmentingobjectswithinwholeslideimagesis essential in computational pathology workflow. Self-supervised learning (SSL) is appealing to such annotation-heavy tasks. Despite the extensive benchmarks in natural images for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Jiawei Yang , Hanbo Chen , Yuan Liang , Junzhou Huang , Lei He , Jianhua Yao

Learning semantic segmentation models under image-level supervision is far more challenging than under fully supervised setting. Without knowing the exact pixel-label correspondence, most weakly-supervised methods rely on external models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Zi-Yi Ke , Chiou-Ting Hsu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods targeting scene images have seen a rapid growth recently, and they mostly rely on either a dedicated dense matching mechanism or a costly unsupervised object discovery module. This paper shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Jianxin Wu

Medical contrastive vision-language pre-training (VLP) has demonstrated significant potential in improving performance on downstream tasks. Traditional approaches typically employ contrastive learning, treating paired image-report samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Phuoc-Nguyen Bui , Toan Duc Nguyen , Junghyun Bum , Duc-Tai Le , Hyunseung Choo

Contrastive learning methods in self-supervised settings have primarily focused on pre-training encoders, while decoders are typically introduced and trained separately for downstream dense prediction tasks. However, this conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sébastien Quetin , Tapotosh Ghosh , Farhad Maleki

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning representations without labeled data. Most SSL approaches rely on strong, well-established, handcrafted data augmentations to generate diverse views for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

High-dimensional biological data often exhibit a severe mismatch between feature dimensionality and sample size, making reliable classification difficult in extremely small-data regimes. In these settings, kernel methods can lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Alakananda Mitra , David H. Fleisher , Vangimalla Reddy , Chittaranjan Ray

Representation learning has significantly been developed with the advance of contrastive learning methods. Most of those methods have benefited from various data augmentations that are carefully designated to maintain their identities so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Xiao Wang , Guo-Jun Qi

Whole-slide image (WSI) analysis plays a crucial role in cancer diagnosis and treatment. In addressing the demands of this critical task, self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have emerged as a valuable resource, leveraging their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Gia-Bao Le , Van-Tien Nguyen , Trung-Nghia Le , Minh-Triet Tran

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the challenge of limited labeled data in deep neural networks (DNNs), offering scalability potential. However, the impact of design dependencies within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Shruthi Gowda , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated its effectiveness in learning representations through comparison methods that align with human intuition. However, mainstream SSL methods heavily rely on high body datasets with single label,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiale Chen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven to be a powerful approach for extracting biologically meaningful representations from single-cell data. To advance our understanding of SSL methods applied to single-cell data, we present…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-13 Olga Ovcharenko , Florian Barkmann , Philip Toma , Imant Daunhawer , Julia Vogt , Sebastian Schelter , Valentina Boeva

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a valuable and robust training methodology for contemporary Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), enabling unsupervised pretraining on a 'pretext task' that does not require ground-truth labels/annotation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sotirios Konstantakos , Jorgen Cani , Ioannis Mademlis , Despina Ioanna Chalkiadaki , Yuki M. Asano , Efstratios Gavves , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a practical challenge in computer vision. Pseudo-label (PL) methods, e.g., FixMatch and FreeMatch, obtain the State Of The Art (SOTA) performances in SSL. These approaches employ a threshold-to-pseudo-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jiaqi Wu , Junbiao Pang , Baochang Zhang , Qingming Huang

As an unsupervised feature representation paradigm, Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) uses the intrinsic structure of data to extract meaningful features without relying on manual annotation. Despite the success of SSL, there are still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Lingxiao Li , Xiaohui Ni , Jing Li , Sujuan Qin , Fei Gao

Knowledge distillation has emerged as a highly effective method for bridging the representation discrepancy between large-scale models and lightweight models. Prevalent approaches involve leveraging appropriate metrics to minimize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Zikai Zhou , Yunhang Shen , Shitong Shao , Linrui Gong , Shaohui Lin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods based on Siamese networks learn visual representations by aligning different views of the same image. The multi-crop strategy, which incorporates small local crops to global ones, enhances many SSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Pierre-François De Plaen , Abhishek Jha , Luc Van Gool , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marc Proesmans