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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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has gained remarkable success, for which contrastive learning (CL) plays a key role. However, the recent development of new non-CL frameworks has achieved comparable or better performance with high improvement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Thanh Nguyen , Trung Pham , Chaoning Zhang , Tung Luu , Thang Vu , Chang D. Yoo

Recent approaches in self-supervised learning of image representations can be categorized into different families of methods and, in particular, can be divided into contrastive and non-contrastive approaches. While differences between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Quentin Garrido , Yubei Chen , Adrien Bardes , Laurent Najman , Yann Lecun

Internet of Things (IoT) deployments operate in nonstationary, dynamic environments where factors such as sensor drift, evolving user behavior, and heterogeneous user privacy requirements can affect application utility. Continual learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ajesh Koyatan Chathoth

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) has managed to match or surpass the performance of supervised learning in image and video classification. However, it is still largely unknown if the nature of the representations induced by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Rohit Gupta , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) is an approach to learn useful representations by solving a pretext task that selects and compares anchor, negative and positive (APN) features from an unlabeled dataset. We present a conceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 William Falcon , Kyunghyun Cho

We investigate contrastive learning in the federated setting through the lens of SimCLR and multi-view mutual information maximization. In doing so, we uncover a connection between contrastive representation learning and user verification;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Christos Louizos , Matthias Reisser , Denis Korzhenkov

Most Neural Networks (NNs) for classification are trained using Cross-Entropy as a loss function. This approach requires the model to have an explicit classification layer. However, there exist alternative approaches, such as Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Leonardo Arrighi , Julia Eva Belloni , Aurélie Gallet , Ivan Gentile , Matteo Lippi , Marco Zullich

In recent years, a variety of contrastive learning based unsupervised visual representation learning methods have been designed and achieved great success in many visual tasks. Generally, these methods can be roughly classified into four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wenbin Li , Meihao Kong , Xuesong Yang , Lei Wang , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

Contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) learns an embedding space that maps similar data pairs closer and dissimilar data pairs farther apart. Despite its success, one issue has been overlooked: the fairness aspect of representations…

Contrastive learning is a promising approach to unsupervised learning, as it inherits the advantages of well-studied deep models without a dedicated and complex model design. In this paper, based on bidirectional encoder representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Haoxiang Shi , Cen Wang

Multimodal Contrastive Learning (MCL) advances in aligning different modalities and generating multimodal representations in a joint space. By leveraging contrastive learning across diverse modalities, large-scale multimodal data enhances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

In this work, we aim to consider the application of contrastive learning in the scenario of the recommendation system adequately, making it more suitable for recommendation task. We propose a learning paradigm called supervised contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Chun Yang

Human skeleton point clouds are commonly used to automatically classify and predict the behaviour of others. In this paper, we use a contrastive self-supervised learning method, SimCLR, to learn representations that capture the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Nico Lingg , Miguel Sarabia , Luca Zappella , Barry-John Theobald

Contrastive learning (CL) is a predominant technique in image classification, but they showed limited performance with an imbalanced dataset. Recently, several supervised CL methods have been proposed to promote an ideal regular simplex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sumin Roh , Harim Kim , Ho Yun Lee , Il Yong Chun

Continual Learning (CL) investigates how to train Deep Networks on a stream of tasks without incurring forgetting. CL settings proposed in literature assume that every incoming example is paired with ground-truth annotations. However, this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-30 Matteo Boschini , Pietro Buzzega , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Contrastive learning is a well-established paradigm in representation learning. The standard framework of contrastive learning minimizes the distance between "similar" instances and maximizes the distance between dissimilar ones in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Naghmeh Ghanooni , Barbod Pajoum , Harshit Rawal , Sophie Fellenz , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Marius Kloft

Contrastive learning has achieved great success in self-supervised visual representation learning, but existing approaches mostly ignored spatial information which is often crucial for visual representation. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xinyue Huo , Lingxi Xie , Longhui Wei , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hao Li , Zijie Yang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Despite its success in self-supervised learning, contrastive learning is less studied in the supervised setting. In this work, we first use a set of pilot experiments to show that in the supervised setting, the cross-entropy loss objective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Liz Li , Wei Zhu

The recent breakthrough achieved by contrastive learning accelerates the pace for deploying unsupervised training on real-world data applications. However, unlabeled data in reality is commonly imbalanced and shows a long-tail distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ziyu Jiang , Tianlong Chen , Bobak Mortazavi , Zhangyang Wang