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While Self-Supervised Learning has helped reap the benefit of the scale from the available unlabeled data, the learning paradigms are continuously being bettered. We present a new pre-training strategy named ccc-wav2vec 2.0, which uses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Vasista Sai Lodagala , Sreyan Ghosh , S. Umesh

Despite the remarkable advances in deep learning technology, achieving satisfactory performance in lung sound classification remains a challenge due to the scarcity of available data. Moreover, the respiratory sound samples are collected…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 June-Woo Kim , Sangmin Bae , Won-Yang Cho , Byungjo Lee , Ho-Young Jung

Deep learning-based object detectors have shown remarkable improvements. However, supervised learning-based methods perform poorly when the train data and the test data have different distributions. To address the issue, domain adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Seunghyeon Kim , Jaehoon Choi , Taekyung Kim , Changick Kim

Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning has proven effective in deriving high-quality representations from unlabeled data. However, a major challenge that hinders both unimodal and multimodal contrastive learning is feature suppression, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jihai Zhang , Xiang Lan , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng , Mengling Feng , Bryan Hooi

Current 3D semi-supervised segmentation methods face significant challenges such as limited consideration of contextual information and the inability to generate reliable pseudo-labels for effective unsupervised data use. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) using large models to learn visual representations from natural images are rapidly closing the gap between the results produced by fully supervised learning and those produced by SSL on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Weiyao Wang , Byung-Hak Kim , Varun Ganapathi

We present a self-supervised learning method to learn audio and video representations. Prior work uses the natural correspondence between audio and video to define a standard cross-modal instance discrimination task, where a model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pedro Morgado , Ishan Misra , Nuno Vasconcelos

We present ConCur, a contrastive video representation learning method that uses curriculum learning to impose a dynamic sampling strategy in contrastive training. More specifically, ConCur starts the contrastive training with easy positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

Current multimodal models often suffer from shallow reasoning, leading to errors caused by incomplete or inconsistent thought processes. To address this limitation, we propose Self-Verification and Self-Rectification (SVSR), a unified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhe Qian , Nianbing Su , Zhonghua Wang , Hebei Li , Zhongxing Xu , Yueying Li , Fei Luo , Zhuohan Ouyang , Yanbiao Ma

Attention-based sequential recommendation methods have shown promise in accurately capturing users' evolving interests from their past interactions. Recent research has also explored the integration of reinforcement learning (RL) into these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Melissa Mozifian , Tristan Sylvain , Dave Evans , Lili Meng

Vast quantities of person-generated health data (wearables) are collected but the process of annotating to feed to machine learning models is impractical. This paper discusses ways in which self-supervised approaches that use contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Kevalee Shah , Dimitris Spathis , Chi Ian Tang , Cecilia Mascolo

Standard approaches to goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) that rely on temporal-difference learning can be unstable and sample-inefficient due to bootstrapping. While recent work has explored contrastive and supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Franki Nguimatsia Tiofack , Fabian Schramm , Théotime Le Hellard , Justin Carpentier

We propose Domain-Conditioned Meta-Contrastive Learning, a framework for improving the cross-domain generalization of vision-language models. While contrastive models such as CLIP achieve strong performance through large-scale training,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Merham Fouladvand , Peuroly Batra

Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong performance but struggle when adapted to downstream tasks. Prompt learning has emerged as an efficient and effective strategy to adapt VLMs while preserving their pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xiwen Chen , Wenhui Zhu , Peijie Qiu , Hao Wang , Huayu Li , Haiyu Wu , Aristeidis Sotiras , Yalin Wang , Abolfazl Razi

The ambiguity of human emotions poses several challenges for machine learning models, as they often overlap and lack clear delineating boundaries. Contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) has emerged as a key technique for…

Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a vital role in facilitating communication for the hearing-impaired community. SLR is a weakly supervised task where entire videos are annotated with glosses, making it challenging to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hao Chen , Jiaze Wang , Ziyu Guo , Jinpeng Li , Donghao Zhou , Bian Wu , Chenyong Guan , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

In this work, we present Curled-Dreamer, a novel reinforcement learning algorithm that integrates contrastive learning into the DreamerV3 framework to enhance performance in visual reinforcement learning tasks. By incorporating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Victor Augusto Kich , Jair Augusto Bottega , Raul Steinmetz , Ricardo Bedin Grando , Ayano Yorozu , Akihisa Ohya

Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has achieved remarkable success across various downstream tasks, but such gains are largely driven by scaling up on training data. Yet, literature methods treat image-text pairs as isolated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Wenbo Lu

Speaker verification system trained on one domain usually suffers performance degradation when applied to another domain. To address this challenge, researchers commonly use feature distribution matching-based methods in unsupervised domain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Wen Huang , Bing Han , Zhengyang Chen , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

Recent advances in contrastive learning have enlightened diverse applications across various semi-supervised fields. Jointly training supervised learning and unsupervised learning with a shared feature encoder becomes a common scheme.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Lirong Wu , Siyuan Li , Stan Z. Li