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Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a paradigm that leverages unlabeled data for model training. Empirical studies show that SSL can achieve promising performance in distribution shift scenarios, where the downstream and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xuyang Zhao , Tianqi Du , Yisen Wang , Jun Yao , Weiran Huang

Most self-supervised learning (SSL) methods learn continuous visual representations by aligning different views of the same input, offering limited control over how information is structured across representation dimensions. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kawtar Zaher , Ilyass Moummad , Olivier Buisson , Alexis Joly

Enhancing explainability in speech self-supervised learning (SSL) is important for developing reliable SSL-based speech processing systems. This study probes how speech SSL models encode speaker-specific information via a large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Aemon Yat Fei Chiu , Kei Ching Fung , Roger Tsz Yeung Li , Jingyu Li , Tan Lee

We present a methodology for using unlabeled data to design semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods that improve the predictive performance of supervised learning for regression tasks. The main idea is to design different mechanisms for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-18 Oren Yuval , Saharon Rosset

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

While the success of semi-supervised learning (SSL) is still not fully understood, Sch\"olkopf et al. (2012) have established a link to the principle of independent causal mechanisms. They conclude that SSL should be impossible when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-25 Julius von Kügelgen , Alexander Mey , Marco Loog , Bernhard Schölkopf

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) based on a reconstruction task have risen to be a promising paradigm for self-supervised learning (SSL) and achieve state-of-the-art performance across different benchmark datasets. However, despite its impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

With the success of self-supervised learning (SSL), it has become a mainstream paradigm to fine-tune from self-supervised pretrained models to boost the performance on downstream tasks. However, we find that current SSL models suffer severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yun-Hao Cao , Peiqin Sun , Yechang Huang , Jianxin Wu , Shuchang Zhou

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an important theme in machine learning, in which we have a few labeled samples and many unlabeled samples. In this paper, for SSL in a regression problem, we consider a method of incorporating information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Katsuyuki Hagiwara

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) commonly exhibits confirmation bias, where models disproportionately favor certain classes, leading to errors in predicted pseudo labels that accumulate under a self-training paradigm. Unlike supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yu Wang , Yuxuan Yin , Peng Li

Deep neural networks are efficient at learning the data distribution if it is sufficiently sampled. However, they can be strongly biased by non-relevant factors implicitly incorporated in the training data. These include operational biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Kirill Sirotkin , Pablo Carballeira , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been widely explored in recent years, and it is an effective way of leveraging unlabeled data to reduce the reliance on labeled data. In this work, we adjust neural processes (NPs) to the semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jianfeng Wang , Xiaolin Hu , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has tremendous value in practice due to its ability to utilize both labeled data and unlabelled data. An important class of SSL methods is to naturally represent data as graphs such that the label information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Zixing Song , Xiangli Yang , Zenglin Xu , Irwin King

We present a general methodology for using unlabeled data to design semi supervised learning (SSL) variants of the Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) learning process. Focusing on generalized linear regression, we analyze of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-08 Oren Yuval , Saharon Rosset

Since the introduction of Masked Autoencoders, various improvements to masking techniques have been explored. In this paper, we rethink masking strategies for audio representation learning using masked prediction-based self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Masahiro Yasuda , Binh Thien Nguyen , Noboru Harada , Nobutaka Ono

Code-switching (CS) is common in daily conversations where more than one language is used within a sentence. The difficulties of CS speech recognition lie in alternating languages and the lack of transcribed data. Therefore, this paper uses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Liang-Hsuan Tseng , Yu-Kuan Fu , Heng-Jui Chang , Hung-yi Lee

The success of self-supervised learning (SSL) has mostly been attributed to the availability of unlabeled yet large-scale datasets. However, in a specialized domain such as medical imaging which is a lot different from natural images, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Soham Ganguly , Sreejit Chaudhury , Sayan Nag , Samiran Chattopadhyay

This work proposes a new way of combining independently trained classifiers over space and time. Combination over space means that the outputs of spatially distributed classifiers are aggregated. Combination over time means that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Virginia Bordignon , Stefan Vlaski , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

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-supervised learning (SSL) methods such as masked language modeling have shown massive performance gains by pretraining transformer models for a variety of natural language processing tasks. The follow-up research adapted similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Gokul Karthik Kumar , Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Abhishek Singh Gehlot