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We present a novel objective function for cluster-based self-supervised learning (SSL) that is designed to circumvent the triad of failure modes, namely representation collapse, cluster collapse, and the problem of invariance to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Emanuele Sansone

Stripe-like space target detection (SSTD) is crucial for space situational awareness. Traditional unsupervised methods often fail in low signal-to-noise ratio and variable stripe-like space targets scenarios, leading to weak generalization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Zijian Zhu , Ali Zia , Xuesong Li , Bingbing Dan , Yuebo Ma , Hongfeng Long , Kaili Lu , Enhai Liu , Rujin Zhao

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has produced a diverse landscape of vision transformers (ViTs) whose pretrained representations support a wide range of downstream tasks. Towards a better understanding of these models, a body of work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoyan Yu , Lisa Mais , Jannik Franzen , Peter Hirsch , Nick Lechtenbörger , Andreas Mardt , Dagmar Kainmüller

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is attractive for plant disease detection as it can exploit large collections of unlabeled leaf images, yet most existing SSL methods are built on CNNs or vision transformers that are poorly matched to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Abdullah Al Mamun , Miaohua Zhang , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Zeeshan Hayder , Mohammad Awrangjeb

Self-supervised learning (SSL) learns high-quality representations from large pools of unlabeled training data. As datasets grow larger, it becomes crucial to identify the examples that contribute the most to learning such representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Siddharth Joshi , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Self-supervised representation learning is central to modern machine learning because it extracts structured latent features from unlabeled data and enables robust transfer across tasks and domains. However, it can suffer from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-14 Louie Hong Yao , Yuhao Li , Shengchao Liu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods aim to learn view-invariant representations by maximizing the similarity between the features extracted from different crops of the same image regardless of cropping size and content. In essence, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Tong Zhang , Congpei Qiu , Wei Ke , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great success in estimating sequential treatment strategies which take into account patient heterogeneity. However, health-outcome information, which is used as the reward for reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Aaron Sonabend-W , Nilanjana Laha , Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan , Tianxi Cai , Rajarshi Mukherjee

Self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to find meaningful representations from unlabeled data by encoding semantic similarities through data augmentations. Despite its current popularity, theoretical insights about SSL are still scarce. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Maximilian Fleissner , Pascal Esser , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

Deep supervised learning algorithms typically require a large volume of labeled data to achieve satisfactory performance. However, the process of collecting and labeling such data can be expensive and time-consuming. Self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jie Gui , Tuo Chen , Jing Zhang , Qiong Cao , Zhenan Sun , Hao Luo , Dacheng Tao

Automated medical diagnosis through image-based neural networks has increased in popularity and matured over years. Nevertheless, it is confined by the scarcity of medical images and the expensive labor annotation costs. Self-Supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Luffina C. Huang , Darren J. Chiu , Manish Mehta

The success of deep learning in medical imaging is mostly achieved at the cost of a large labeled data set. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a promising solution by leveraging the structure of unlabeled data to improve learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Prashnna Kumar Gyawali , Zhiyuan Li , Sandesh Ghimire , Linwei Wang

Low-rank learning has attracted much attention recently due to its efficacy in a rich variety of real-world tasks, e.g., subspace segmentation and image categorization. Most low-rank methods are incapable of capturing low-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Ping Li , Jun Yu , Meng Wang , Luming Zhang , Deng Cai , Xuelong Li

Self-supervised learning has gained significant attention in contemporary applications, particularly due to the scarcity of labeled data. While existing SSL methodologies primarily address feature variance and linear correlations, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 M. Hadi Sepanj , Benyamin Ghojogh , Paul Fieguth

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is able to build latent representations that generalize well to unseen data. However, only a few SSL techniques exist for the online CL setting, where data arrives in small minibatches, the model must comply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giacomo Cignoni , Andrea Cossu , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Joost van de Weijer , Antonio Carta

Microwave Tomography (MWT) aims to reconstruct the dielectric properties of tissues from measured scattered electromagnetic fields. This inverse problem is highly nonlinear and ill-posed, posing significant challenges for conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Bowen Tong , Hao Chen , Shaorui Guo , Dong Liu

Traditional semi-supervised learning (SSL) assumes that the feature distributions of labeled and unlabeled data are consistent which rarely holds in realistic scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel SSL setting, where unlabeled samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jiachen Liang , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Self-training (ST) is a simple yet effective semi-supervised learning method. However, why and how ST improves generalization performance by using potentially erroneous pseudo-labels is still not well understood. To deepen the understanding…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-08 Takashi Takahashi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning approach where the data itself provides supervision, eliminating the need for external labels. The model is forced to learn about the data structure or context by solving a pretext task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Markus Marks , Manuel Knott , Neehar Kondapaneni , Elijah Cole , Thijs Defraeye , Fernando Perez-Cruz , Pietro Perona

Nowadays, supervised deep learning techniques yield the best state-of-the-art prediction performances for a wide variety of computer vision tasks. However, such supervised techniques generally require a large amount of manually labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Florent Chiaroni , Mohamed-Cherif Rahal , Nicolas Hueber , Frederic Dufaux