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In this paper, we propose a novel multi-view clustering model, named Dual-space Co-training Large-scale Multi-view Clustering (DSCMC). The main objective of our approach is to enhance the clustering performance by leveraging co-training in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zisen Kong , Zhiqiang Fu , Dongxia Chang , Yiming Wang , Yao Zhao

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision and pattern recognition. Recently, deep clustering methods (algorithms based on deep learning) have attracted wide attention with their impressive performance. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yanhai Gan , Xinghui Dong , Huiyu Zhou , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) has received widespread attention, since its learned representations can be transferred well to various downstream tasks. During the training process of the CLIP model, the InfoNCE objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Delong Chen , Zhao Wu , Fan Liu , Zaiquan Yang , Huaxi Huang , Ying Tan , Erjin Zhou

Unsupervised feature learning has made great strides with contrastive learning based on instance discrimination and invariant mapping, as benchmarked on curated class-balanced datasets. However, natural data could be highly correlated and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Xudong Wang , Ziwei Liu , Stella X. Yu

Learning representations that transfer well to diverse downstream tasks remains a central challenge in representation learning. Existing paradigms -- contrastive learning, self-supervised masking, and denoising auto-encoders -- balance this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Micha Livne

Contrastive learning (CL) is one of the most successful paradigms for self-supervised learning (SSL). In a principled way, it considers two augmented "views" of the same image as positive to be pulled closer, and all other images as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chun-Hsiao Yeh , Cheng-Yao Hong , Yen-Chi Hsu , Tyng-Luh Liu , Yubei Chen , Yann LeCun

Contrastive learning has demonstrated promising potential in recommender systems. Existing methods typically construct sparser views by randomly perturbing the original interaction graph, as they have no idea about the authentic user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Xufeng Liang , Zhida Qin , Chong Zhang , Tianyu Huang , Gangyi Ding

Contrastive learning (CL) continuously achieves significant breakthroughs across multiple domains. However, the most common InfoNCE-based methods suffer from some dilemmas, such as \textit{uniformity-tolerance dilemma} (UTD) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zizheng Huang , Haoxing Chen , Ziqi Wen , Chao Zhang , Huaxiong Li , Bo Wang , Chunlin Chen

We consider the scenario of deep clustering, in which the available prior knowledge is limited. In this scenario, few existing state-of-the-art deep clustering methods can perform well for both non-complex topology and complex topology…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-07 Yuhui Zhang , Yuichiro Wada , Hiroki Waida , Kaito Goto , Yusaku Hino , Takafumi Kanamori

Contrastive learning, especially self-supervised contrastive learning (SSCL), has achieved great success in extracting powerful features from unlabeled data. In this work, we contribute to the theoretical understanding of SSCL and uncover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Tianyang Hu , Zhili Liu , Fengwei Zhou , Wenjia Wang , Weiran Huang

Multi-view representation learning has developed rapidly over the past decades and has been applied in many fields. However, most previous works assumed that each view is complete and aligned. This leads to an inevitable deterioration in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Jie Wen , Yao Zhao

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

Consensus clustering, a fundamental task in machine learning and data analysis, aims to aggregate multiple input clusterings of a dataset, potentially based on different non-sensitive attributes, into a single clustering that best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Diptarka Chakraborty , Kushagra Chatterjee , Debarati Das , Tien Long Nguyen , Romina Nobahari

Classification tasks require a balanced distribution of data to ensure the learner to be trained to generalize over all classes. In real-world datasets, however, the number of instances vary substantially among classes. This typically leads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Joel Jang , Yoonjeon Kim , Kyoungho Choi , Sungho Suh

Cross entropy loss has served as the main objective function for classification-based tasks. Widely deployed for learning neural network classifiers, it shows both effectiveness and a probabilistic interpretation. Recently, after the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Rahaf Aljundi , Yash Patel , Milan Sulc , Daniel Olmeda , Nikolay Chumerin

Visual recognition is recently learned via either supervised learning on human-annotated image-label data or language-image contrastive learning with webly-crawled image-text pairs. While supervised learning may result in a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Bin Xiao , Ce Liu , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

The task of infomin learning aims to learn a representation with high utility while being uninformative about a specified target, with the latter achieved by minimising the mutual information between the representation and the target. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Yanzhi Chen , Weihao Sun , Yingzhen Li , Adrian Weller

We present Mixture of Contrastive Experts (MiCE), a unified probabilistic clustering framework that simultaneously exploits the discriminative representations learned by contrastive learning and the semantic structures captured by a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Tsung Wei Tsai , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

We propose a novel framework for image clustering that incorporates joint representation learning and clustering. Our method consists of two heads that share the same backbone network - a "representation learning" head and a "clustering"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

The past two decades have seen increasingly rapid advances in the field of multi-view representation learning due to it extracting useful information from diverse domains to facilitate the development of multi-view applications. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Guanzhou Ke , Guoqing Chao , Xiaoli Wang , Chenyang Xu , Yongqi Zhu , Yang Yu