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Self-supervised learning has gained popularity because of its ability to avoid the cost of annotating large-scale datasets. It is capable of adopting self-defined pseudo labels as supervision and use the learned representations for several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ashish Jaiswal , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Mohammad Zaki Zadeh , Debapriya Banerjee , Fillia Makedon

Recent contrastive methods show significant improvement in self-supervised learning in several domains. In particular, contrastive methods are most effective where data augmentation can be easily constructed e.g. in computer vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Denis Gudovskiy , Kazuki Kozuka , Iku Ohama , Luca Rigazio

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for self-supervised representation learning. This work analyzes the theoretical limits of contrastive learning under nasty noise, where an adversary modifies or replaces training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Ziruo Zhao

Self-supervised contrastive learning offers a means of learning informative features from a pool of unlabeled data. In this paper, we delve into another useful approach -- providing a way of selecting a core-set that is entirely unlabeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jeongwoo Ju , Heechul Jung , Yoonju Oh , Junmo Kim

Recently, contrastive self-supervised learning has become a key component for learning visual representations across many computer vision tasks and benchmarks. However, contrastive learning in the context of domain adaptation remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mamatha Thota , Georgios Leontidis

Convolutional networks have marked their place over the last few years as the best performing model for various visual tasks. They are, however, most suited for supervised learning from large amounts of labeled data. Previous attempts have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Elad Hoffer , Itay Hubara , Nir Ailon

We develop biologically plausible training mechanisms for self-supervised learning (SSL) in deep networks. Specifically, by biological plausible training we mean (i) All updates of weights are based on current activities of pre-synaptic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Mufeng Tang , Yibo Yang , Yali Amit

Current large scale implementations of deep learning and data mining require thousands of processors, massive amounts of off-chip memory, and consume gigajoules of energy. Emerging memory technologies such as nanoscale two-terminal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 S. Burc Eryilmaz , Emre Neftci , Siddharth Joshi , SangBum Kim , Matthew BrightSky , Hsiang-Lan Lung , Chung Lam , Gert Cauwenberghs , H. -S. Philip Wong

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have brought tremendous success across many tasks and domains. It has been argued that these successes can be attributed to a link between SSL and identifiable representation learning: Temporal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Rodrigo González Laiz , Tobias Schmidt , Steffen Schneider

In visual recognition tasks, such as image classification, unsupervised learning exploits cheap unlabeled data and can help to solve these tasks more efficiently. We show that the recursive autoconvolution operator, adopted from physics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Boris Knyazev , Erhardt Barth , Thomas Martinetz

Contrastive learning methods have significantly narrowed the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning on computer vision tasks. In this paper, we explore their application to geo-located datasets, e.g. remote sensing, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Kumar Ayush , Burak Uzkent , Chenlin Meng , Kumar Tanmay , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Convolutional networks have marked their place over the last few years as the best performing model for various visual tasks. They are, however, most suited for supervised learning from large amounts of labeled data. Previous attempts have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-23 Elad Hoffer , Itay Hubara , Nir Ailon

The Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), an important tool used in machine learning in particular for unsupervized learning tasks, is investigated from the perspective of its spectral properties. Starting from empirical observations, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-17 Aurélien Decelle , Giancarlo Fissore , Cyril Furtlehner

We present a mathematical construction for the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) that doesn't require specifying the number of hidden units. In fact, the hidden layer size is adaptive and can grow during training. This is obtained by first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Marc-Alexandre Côté , Hugo Larochelle

Estimating the parameters of a model describing a set of observations using a neural network is in general solved in a supervised way. In cases when we do not have access to the model's true parameters this approach can not be applied.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo

We generalize the theory of supervised contrastive learning, previously applied to physical systems at equilibrium or steady state, to systems following any dynamics described by coupled ordinary differential equations. We show that if…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 Menachem Stern , Adam G. Frim , Raúl Candás , Andrea J. Liu , Vijay Balasubramanian

Self-supervised learning has revolutionized representation learning by eliminating the need for labeled data. Contrastive learning methods, such as SimCLR, maximize the agreement between augmented views of an image but lack explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 M. Hadi Sepanj , Paul Fiegth

In this paper, we propose a novel Self-Supervised-Learning scheme to train rhythm analysis systems and instantiate it for few-shot beat tracking. Taking inspiration from the Contrastive Predictive Coding paradigm, we propose to train a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Antonin Gagnere , Geoffroy Peeters , Slim Essid

Understanding self-supervised learning is important but challenging. Previous theoretical works study the role of pretraining losses, and view neural networks as general black boxes. However, the recent work of Saunshi et al. argues that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jeff Z. HaoChen , Tengyu Ma

Modern self-supervised learning algorithms typically enforce persistency of instance representations across views. While being very effective on learning holistic image and video representations, such an objective becomes sub-optimal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Liangzhe Yuan , Rui Qian , Yin Cui , Boqing Gong , Florian Schroff , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Hartwig Adam , Ting Liu