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Recently, a few self-supervised representation learning (SSL) methods have outperformed the ImageNet classification pre-training for vision tasks such as object detection. However, its effects on 3D human body pose and shape estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hongsuk Choi , Hyeongjin Nam , Taeryung Lee , Gyeongsik Moon , Kyoung Mu Lee

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown impressive results in downstream classification tasks. However, there is limited work in understanding their failure modes and interpreting their learned representations. In this paper, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Neha Kalibhat , Kanika Narang , Hamed Firooz , Maziar Sanjabi , Soheil Feizi

Unsupervised learning has recently significantly gained in popularity, especially with deep learning-based approaches. Despite numerous successes and approaching supervised-level performance on a variety of academic benchmarks, it is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Anton Tsitsulin , Marina Munkhoeva , Bryan Perozzi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) leverages large datasets of unlabeled speech to reach impressive performance with reduced amounts of annotated data. The high number of proposed approaches fostered the emergence of comprehensive benchmarks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Salah Zaiem , Youcef Kemiche , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid , Mirco Ravanelli

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for medical image representation learning, particularly in settings with limited labeled data. However, existing SSL methods often rely on complex architectures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Azad Singh , Deepak Mishra

A common phenomena confining the representation quality in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is dimensional collapse (also known as rank degeneration), where the learned representations are mapped to a low dimensional subspace of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Ali Saheb Pasand , Reza Moravej , Mahdi Biparva , Ali Ghodsi

In recent years, self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach for extracting valuable representations from unlabeled data. One successful SSL method is contrastive learning, which aims to bring positive examples closer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Zeen Song , Xingzhe Su , Jingyao Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun

Accurate prediction of material properties facilitates the discovery of novel materials with tailored functionalities. Deep learning models have recently shown superior accuracy and flexibility in capturing structure-property relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Chowdhury Mohammad Abid Rahman , Aldo H. Romero , Prashnna K. Gyawali

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become the de facto training paradigm of large models where pre-training is followed by supervised fine-tuning using domain-specific data and labels. Hypothesizing that SSL models would learn more generic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Sofia Yfantidou , Dimitris Spathis , Marios Constantinides , Athena Vakali , Daniele Quercia , Fahim Kawsar

Deep neural networks have been widely used in communication signal recognition and achieved remarkable performance, but this superiority typically depends on using massive examples for supervised learning, whereas training a deep neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Weidong Wang , Hongshu Liao , Lu Gan

Deep neural networks achieve remarkable performances on a wide range of tasks with the aid of large-scale labeled datasets. Yet these datasets are time-consuming and labor-exhaustive to obtain on realistic tasks. To mitigate the requirement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Baixu Chen , Junguang Jiang , Ximei Wang , Pengfei Wan , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has advanced significantly in visual representation learning, yet comprehensive evaluations of its adversarial robustness remain limited. In this study, we evaluate the adversarial robustness of seven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ömer Veysel Çağatan , Ömer Faruk Tal , M. Emre Gürsoy

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has rapidly advanced in recent years, approaching the performance of its supervised counterparts through the extraction of representations from unlabeled data. However, dimensional collapse, where a few large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Junlin He , Jinxiao Du , Wei Ma

Computationally expensive training strategies make self-supervised learning (SSL) impractical for resource constrained industrial settings. Techniques like knowledge distillation (KD), dynamic computation (DC), and pruning are often used to…

Self-supervised learning (SSL) representation for speech has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on several downstream tasks. However, there remains room for improvement in speech enhancement (SE) tasks. In this study, we used a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Szu-wei Fu , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Tien Chiang , Yu Tsao , Chii-Wann Lin

Linear probing (LP) (and $k$-NN) on the upstream dataset with labels (e.g., ImageNet) and transfer learning (TL) to various downstream datasets are commonly employed to evaluate the quality of visual representations learned via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Jae-Hun Lee , Doyoung Yoon , ByeongMoon Ji , Kyungyul Kim , Sangheum Hwang

In this paper, we introduce a novel self-supervised learning (SSL) loss for image representation learning. There is a growing belief that generalization in deep neural networks is linked to their ability to discriminate object shapes. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sepehr Sameni , Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

Self-supervised learning (SSL) excels at finding general-purpose latent representations from complex data, yet lacks a unifying theoretical framework that explains the diverse existing methods and guides the design of new ones. We cast SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Fabian A Mikulasch , Friedemann Zenke

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods harness the concept of semantic invariance by utilizing data augmentation strategies to produce similar representations for different deformations of the same input. Essentially, the model captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Huijie Guo , Ying Ba , Jie Hu , Lingyu Si , Wenwen Qiang , Lei Shi

Joint-Embedding Self Supervised Learning (JE-SSL) has seen a rapid development, with the emergence of many method variations but only few principled guidelines that would help practitioners to successfully deploy them. The main reason for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Quentin Garrido , Randall Balestriero , Laurent Najman , Yann Lecun