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Contrastive learning has delivered impressive results for various tasks in the self-supervised regime. However, existing approaches optimize for learning representations specific to downstream scenarios, i.e., \textit{global}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is an effective paradigm for node representation learning in graphs. The key components hidden behind GCL are data augmentation and positive-negative pair selection. Typical data augmentations in GCL, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jiaqiang Zhang , Songcan Chen

Effective image restoration with large-size corruptions, such as blind image inpainting, entails precise detection of corruption region masks which remains extremely challenging due to diverse shapes and patterns of corruptions. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xin Feng , Yifeng Xu , Guangming Lu , Wenjie Pei

Contrastive learning is a well-established paradigm in representation learning. The standard framework of contrastive learning minimizes the distance between "similar" instances and maximizes the distance between dissimilar ones in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Naghmeh Ghanooni , Barbod Pajoum , Harshit Rawal , Sophie Fellenz , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Marius Kloft

Image segmentation relies on large annotated datasets, which are expensive and slow to produce. Silver-standard (AI-generated) labels are easier to obtain, but they risk introducing bias. Self-supervised learning, needing only images, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Marceau Lafargue-Hauret , Raghav Mehta , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Mélanie Roschewitz , Ben Glocker

The rapid growth of deep learning has brought about powerful models that can handle various tasks, like identifying images and understanding language. However, adversarial attacks, an unnoticed alteration, can deceive models, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sampriti Soor , Alik Pramanick , Jothiprakash K , Arijit Sur

We investigate the learning task of language generation in the limit, but shift focus from the traditional time-of-last-mistake metric of a generator's success to a new notion of "mistake-bounded generation." While existing results for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jon Kleinberg , Charlotte Peale , Omer Reingold

Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) aims to recognize objects from both seen and unseen classes, when only the labeled examples from seen classes are provided. Recent feature generation methods learn a generative model that can synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Zongyan Han , Zhenyong Fu , Shuo Chen , Jian Yang

Recent self-supervised contrastive methods have been able to produce impressive transferable visual representations by learning to be invariant to different data augmentations. However, these methods implicitly assume a particular set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Tete Xiao , Xiaolong Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Trevor Darrell

Recently, contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a successful method for unsupervised graph representation learning. Most graph CL methods first perform stochastic augmentation on the input graph to obtain two graph views and maximize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

We propose a novel biologically-plausible solution to the credit assignment problem motivated by observations in the ventral visual pathway and trained deep neural networks. In both, representations of objects in the same category become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shanshan Qin , Nayantara Mudur , Cengiz Pehlevan

Unifying text-image contrastive learning and text-to-image (T2I) generation in a single end-to-end model is challenging because the two objectives demand opposing masking regimes: contrastive alignment needs near-complete visible tokens,…

Contrastive learning is a powerful self-supervised learning method, but we have a limited theoretical understanding of how it works and why it works. In this paper, we prove that contrastive learning with the standard InfoNCE loss is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Zhiquan Tan , Yifan Zhang , Jingqin Yang , Yang Yuan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently emerged as a powerful approach to learning representations from large-scale unlabeled data, showing promising results in time series analysis. The self-supervised representation learning can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ziyu Liu , Azadeh Alavi , Minyi Li , Xiang Zhang

Recent advances in unsupervised deep graph clustering have been significantly promoted by contrastive learning. Despite the strides, most graph contrastive learning models face challenges: 1) graph augmentation is used to improve learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chusheng Zeng , Bocheng Wang , Jinghui Yuan , Rong Wang , Mulin Chen

Heterogeneous Graphs (HGs) effectively model complex relationships in the real world through multi-type nodes and edges. In recent years, inspired by self-supervised learning (SSL), contrastive learning (CL)-based Heterogeneous Graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yu Wang , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Xindong Wu

Pre-trained sequence-to-sequence language models have led to widespread success in many natural language generation tasks. However, there has been relatively less work on analyzing their ability to generate structured outputs such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Swarnadeep Saha , Prateek Yadav , Mohit Bansal

Contrastive learning is an effective unsupervised method in graph representation learning, and the key component of contrastive learning lies in the construction of positive and negative samples. Previous methods usually utilize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Shengyu Feng , Baoyu Jing , Yada Zhu , Hanghang Tong

Graph-level contrastive learning, aiming to learn the representations for each graph by contrasting two augmented graphs, has attracted considerable attention. Previous studies usually simply assume that a graph and its augmented graph as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yanbei Liu , Yu Zhao , Xiao Wang , Lei Geng , Zhitao Xiao

Contrastive learning based on instance discrimination trains model to discriminate different transformations of the anchor sample from other samples, which does not consider the semantic similarity among samples. This paper proposes a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Hao Li , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hongkai Xiong