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In this work, we revisit the semi-supervised learning (SSL) problem from a new perspective of explicitly reducing empirical distribution mismatch between labeled and unlabeled samples. Benefited from this new perspective, we first propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Feiyu Wang , Qin Wang , Wen Li , Dong Xu , Luc Van Gool

Recently latent factor model (LFM) has been drawing much attention in recommender systems due to its good performance and scalability. However, existing LFMs predict missing values in a user-item rating matrix only based on the known ones,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Chaochao Chen , Kevin C. Chang , Qibing Li , Xiaolin Zheng

Self-supervised learning (SSL), as a newly emerging unsupervised representation learning paradigm, generally follows a two-stage learning pipeline: 1) learning invariant and discriminative representations with auto-annotation pretext(s),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jiayu Yao , Qingyuan Wu , Quan Feng , Songcan Chen

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

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) methods aim to exploit the abundance of unlabelled data for machine learning (ML), however the underlying principles are often method-specific. An SSL framework derived from biological first principles of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Franz Scherr , Qinghai Guo , Timoleon Moraitis

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) surmises that inputs and pairwise positive relationships are enough to learn meaningful representations. Although SSL has recently reached a milestone: outperforming supervised methods in many modalities\dots…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Randall Balestriero , Yann LeCun

Self-supervised learning (SSL) as an effective paradigm of representation learning has achieved tremendous success on various curated datasets in diverse scenarios. Nevertheless, when facing the long-tailed distribution in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zhihan Zhou , Jiangchao Yao , Feng Hong , Ya Zhang , Bo Han , Yanfeng Wang

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has emerged as the solution of choice to learn transferable representations from unlabeled data. However, SSL requires to build samples that are known to be semantically akin, i.e. positive views. Requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Vivien Cabannes , Leon Bottou , Yann Lecun , Randall Balestriero

Simplicial Embeddings (SEM) are representations learned through self-supervised learning (SSL), wherein a representation is projected into $L$ simplices of $V$ dimensions each using a softmax operation. This procedure conditions the…

We introduce a new approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning based on the recognition-parametrised model (RPM): a normalised semi-parametric hypothesis class for joint distributions over observed and latent variables. Under the key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 William I. Walker , Hugo Soulat , Changmin Yu , Maneesh Sahani

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven to be a powerful approach for extracting biologically meaningful representations from single-cell data. To advance our understanding of SSL methods applied to single-cell data, we present…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-13 Olga Ovcharenko , Florian Barkmann , Philip Toma , Imant Daunhawer , Julia Vogt , Sebastian Schelter , Valentina Boeva

State-of-the-art semi-supervised learning (SSL) approaches rely on highly confident predictions to serve as pseudo-labels that guide the training on unlabeled samples. An inherent drawback of this strategy stems from the quality of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shambhavi Mishra , Balamurali Murugesan , Ismail Ben Ayed , Marco Pedersoli , Jose Dolz

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches, such as contrastive and generative methods, have advanced environmental sound representation learning using unlabeled data. However, how these approaches can complement each other within a unified…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sivan Ding , Julia Wilkins , Magdalena Fuentes , Juan Pablo Bello

Recent advances in image-level self-supervised learning (SSL) have made significant progress, yet learning dense representations for patches remains challenging. Mainstream methods encounter an over-dispersion phenomenon that patches from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Peisong Wen , Qianqian Xu , Siran Dai , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

To synthesize high-fidelity samples, diffusion models typically require auxiliary data to guide the generation process. However, it is impractical to procure the painstaking patch-level annotation effort required in specialized domains like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Minh-Quan Le , Saarthak Kapse , Prateek Prasanna , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras

In this work, we observe a counterintuitive phenomenon in self-supervised learning (SSL): longer training may impair the performance of dense prediction tasks (e.g., semantic segmentation). We refer to this phenomenon as Self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Siran Dai , Qianqian Xu , Peisong Wen , Yang Liu , Qingming Huang

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

Joint Embedding Self-Supervised Learning (JE-SSL) has seen rapid developments in recent years, due to its promise to effectively leverage large unlabeled data. The development of JE-SSL methods was driven primarily by the search for ever…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Florian Bordes , Randall Balestriero , Pascal Vincent

Self Supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated its effectiveness in feature learning from unlabeled data. Regarding this success, there have been some arguments on the role that mutual information plays within the SSL framework. Some works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Salman Mohamadi , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh