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Contrastive learning (CL), which can extract the information shared between different contrastive views, has become a popular paradigm for vision representation learning. Inspired by the success in computer vision, recent work introduces CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Xumeng Gong , Cheng Yang , Chuan Shi

Contrastive representation learning has been outstandingly successful in practice. In this work, we identify two key properties related to the contrastive loss: (1) alignment (closeness) of features from positive pairs, and (2) uniformity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Tongzhou Wang , Phillip Isola

Contrastive Learning (CL) has emerged as a dominant technique for unsupervised representation learning which embeds augmented versions of the anchor close to each other (positive samples) and pushes the embeddings of other samples…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Ge Wang , Jintao Chen , Stan Z. Li

Contrastive learning (CL) has become a powerful approach for learning representations from unlabeled images. However, existing CL methods focus predominantly on visual appearance features while neglecting topological characteristics (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guangyu Meng , Pengfei Gu , Peixian Liang , John P. Lalor , Erin Wolf Chambers , Danny Z. Chen

Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations (e.g., node dropping, edge perturbation, attribute masking)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Shihao Ji , Esra Akbas

Deep neural nets typically perform end-to-end backpropagation to learn the weights, a procedure that creates synchronization constraints in the weight update step across layers and is not biologically plausible. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yuwen Xiong , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

For anomaly detection (AD), early approaches often train separate models for individual classes, yielding high performance but posing challenges in scalability and resource management. Recent efforts have shifted toward training a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Lei Fan , Junjie Huang , Donglin Di , Anyang Su , Tianyou Song , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

The enhancement of unsupervised learning of sentence representations has been significantly achieved by the utility of contrastive learning. This approach clusters the augmented positive instance with the anchor instance to create a desired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Qingfa Xiao , Shuangyin Li , Lei Chen

Recent self-supervised contrastive methods have been able to produce impressive transferable visual representations by learning to be invariant to different data augmentations. However, these methods implicitly assume a particular set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Tete Xiao , Xiaolong Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Trevor Darrell

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) aims to learn node representations by aligning positive pairs and separating negative ones. However, few of researchers have focused on the inner law behind specific augmentations used in graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jingyu Liu , Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

Personalized recommendation is widely used in the web applications, and graph contrastive learning (GCL) has gradually become a dominant approach in recommender systems, primarily due to its ability to extract self-supervised signals from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yu Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Yi Zhang , Lei Sang , Yun Yang

Temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) have been identified as a promising approach to represent the dynamics of facts along the timeline. The extrapolation of TKG is to predict unknowable facts happening in the future, holding significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Wei Chen , Huaiyu Wan , Yuting Wu , Shuyuan Zhao , Jiayaqi Cheng , Yuxin Li , Youfang Lin

Various graph contrastive learning models have been proposed to improve the performance of learning tasks on graph datasets in recent years. While effective and prevalent, these models are usually carefully customized. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Dongkuan Xu , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful tool for graph representation learning. However, most contrastive learning methods learn features of graphs with fixed coarse-grained scale, which might underestimate either local or global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Jun Wang , Weixun Li , Changyu Hou , Xin Tang , Yixuan Qiao , Rui Fang , Pengyong Li , Peng Gao , Guotong Xie

The ability to sequentially learn multiple tasks without forgetting is a key skill of biological brains, whereas it represents a major challenge to the field of deep learning. To avoid catastrophic forgetting, various continual learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Francesco Lässig , Pau Vilimelis Aceituno , Martino Sorbaro , Benjamin F. Grewe

Recent advances in unsupervised deep graph clustering have been significantly promoted by contrastive learning. Despite the strides, most graph contrastive learning models face challenges: 1) graph augmentation is used to improve learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chusheng Zeng , Bocheng Wang , Jinghui Yuan , Rong Wang , Mulin Chen

Continual Learning in semantic scene segmentation aims to continually learn new unseen classes in dynamic environments while maintaining previously learned knowledge. Prior studies focused on modeling the catastrophic forgetting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Thanh-Dat Truong , Utsav Prabhu , Bhiksha Raj , Jackson Cothren , Khoa Luu

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the absence of task-specific labels. However, its scalability on large-scale graphs is hindered by the intensive message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiang Chen , Kun Yue , Wenjie Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Liang Duan

Federated continual learning (FCL) learns incremental tasks over time from confidential datasets distributed across clients. This paper focuses on rehearsal-free FCL, which has severe forgetting issues when learning new tasks due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Gaurav Bagwe , Xiaoyong Yuan , Miao Pan , Lan Zhang

Learning sentence embeddings in an unsupervised manner is fundamental in natural language processing. Recent common practice is to couple pre-trained language models with unsupervised contrastive learning, whose success relies on augmenting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Can Xu , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang