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Self-supervised learning has gained popularity because of its ability to avoid the cost of annotating large-scale datasets. It is capable of adopting self-defined pseudo labels as supervision and use the learned representations for several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ashish Jaiswal , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Mohammad Zaki Zadeh , Debapriya Banerjee , Fillia Makedon

Contrastive learning is a popular form of self-supervised learning that encourages augmentations (views) of the same input to have more similar representations compared to augmentations of different inputs. Recent attempts to theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikunj Saunshi , Jordan Ash , Surbhi Goel , Dipendra Misra , Cyril Zhang , Sanjeev Arora , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy

Contrastive divergence is a popular method of training energy-based models, but is known to have difficulties with training stability. We propose an adaptation to improve contrastive divergence training by scrutinizing a gradient term that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yilun Du , Shuang Li , Joshua Tenenbaum , Igor Mordatch

Traditional supervised learning methods are hitting a bottleneck because of their dependency on expensive manually labeled data and their weaknesses such as limited generalization ability and vulnerability to adversarial attacks. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ran Liu

Contrastive learning has shown impressive success in enhancing feature discriminability for various visual tasks in a self-supervised manner, but the standard contrastive paradigm (features+$\ell_{2}$ normalization) has limited benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Junjie Li , Yixin Zhang , Zilei Wang , Saihui Hou , Keyu Tu , Man Zhang

Many learning algorithms used as normative models in neuroscience or as candidate approaches for learning on neuromorphic chips learn by contrasting one set of network states with another. These Contrastive Learning (CL) algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ezekiel Williams , Colin Bredenberg , Guillaume Lajoie

Recent contrastive methods show significant improvement in self-supervised learning in several domains. In particular, contrastive methods are most effective where data augmentation can be easily constructed e.g. in computer vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Denis Gudovskiy , Kazuki Kozuka , Iku Ohama , Luca Rigazio

Contrastive learning effectively clusters data despite a loss landscape filled with poor solutions, a success that is heavily dependent on the choice of data augmentations. How optimization consistently finds meaningful patterns remains an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jeff Calder , Wonjun Lee

Contrastive learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance in various self-supervised learning tasks and even outperforms its supervised counterpart. Despite its empirical success, theoretical understanding of the superiority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Wenlong Ji , Zhun Deng , Ryumei Nakada , James Zou , Linjun Zhang

Self-supervised representation learning has achieved impressive empirical success, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited. In this work, we provide a theoretical perspective by formulating self-supervised representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Byeongchan Lee

In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of contrastive learning methods for predicting grasp outcomes in an unsupervised manner. By utilizing a publicly available dataset, we demonstrate that contrastive learning methods perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Chengliang Liu , Binhua Huang , Yiwen Liu , Yuanzhe Su , Ke Mai , Yupo Zhang , Zhengkun Yi , Xinyu Wu

Neural operators have recently grown in popularity as Partial Differential Equation (PDE) surrogate models. Learning solution functionals, rather than functions, has proven to be a powerful approach to calculate fast, accurate solutions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Cooper Lorsung , Amir Barati Farimani

Contrastive learning is a highly effective method for learning representations from unlabeled data. Recent works show that contrastive representations can transfer across domains, leading to simple state-of-the-art algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jeff Z. HaoChen , Colin Wei , Ananya Kumar , Tengyu Ma

In recent years, contrastive learning achieves impressive results on self-supervised visual representation learning, but there still lacks a rigorous understanding of its learning dynamics. In this paper, we show that if we cast a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yifei Wang , Qi Zhang , Tianqi Du , Jiansheng Yang , Zhouchen Lin , Yisen Wang

Machine unlearning is a complex process that necessitates the model to diminish the influence of the training data while keeping the loss of accuracy to a minimum. Despite the numerous studies on machine unlearning in recent years, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zixin Wang , Kongyang Chen

Materials and machines are often designed with particular goals in mind, so that they exhibit desired responses to given forces or constraints. Here we explore an alternative approach, namely physical coupled learning. In this paradigm, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-07 Menachem Stern , Daniel Hexner , Jason W. Rocks , Andrea J. Liu

Robotic tasks such as manipulation with visual inputs require image features that capture the physical properties of the scene, e.g., the position and configuration of objects. Recently, it has been suggested to learn such features in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Carmel Rabinovitz , Niko Grupen , Aviv Tamar

Contrastive representation learning has gained much attention due to its superior performance in learning representations from both image and sequential data. However, the learned representations could potentially lead to performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jianfeng Chi , William Shand , Yaodong Yu , Kai-Wei Chang , Han Zhao , Yuan Tian

Self-training and contrastive learning have emerged as leading techniques for incorporating unlabeled data, both under distribution shift (unsupervised domain adaptation) and when it is absent (semi-supervised learning). However, despite…

Contrastive learning is among the most popular and powerful approaches for self-supervised representation learning, where the goal is to map semantically similar samples close together while separating dissimilar ones in the latent space.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-03 Ali Alvandi , Mina Rezaei