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Learning latent representations from complex data is central to modern machine learning, spanning temporal, multimodal, and partially observed systems. In such settings, representations are better understood as latent states capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Gwenolé Quellec

Class imbalance in real-world data poses a common bottleneck for machine learning tasks, since achieving good generalization on under-represented examples is often challenging. Mitigation strategies, such as under or oversampling the data…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-03 Emanuele Loffredo , Mauro Pastore , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

Recent methods for learning unsupervised visual representations, dubbed contrastive learning, optimize the noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) bound on mutual information between two views of an image. NCE uses randomly sampled negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Mike Wu , Milan Mosse , Chengxu Zhuang , Daniel Yamins , Noah Goodman

Contrastive methods have led a recent surge in the performance of self-supervised representation learning (SSL). Recent methods like BYOL or SimSiam purportedly distill these contrastive methods down to their essence, removing bells and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Alexander C. Li , Alexei A. Efros , Deepak Pathak

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful framework for learning generalizable representations, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited, particularly under imbalanced data distributions that are prevalent in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Haixu Liao , Yating Zhou , Songyang Zhang , Meng Wang , Shuai Zhang

Multi-relational graph clustering has demonstrated remarkable success in uncovering underlying patterns in complex networks. Representative methods manage to align different views motivated by advances in contrastive learning. Our empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Zhixiang Shen , Haolan He , Zhao Kang

Contrastive learning (CL)-based self-supervised learning models learn visual representations in a pairwise manner. Although the prevailing CL model has achieved great progress, in this paper, we uncover an ever-overlooked phenomenon: When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Wenwen Qiang , Jiangmeng Li , Changwen Zheng , Bing Su , Hui Xiong

While contrastive multi-view clustering has achieved remarkable success, it implicitly assumes balanced class distribution. However, real-world multi-view data primarily exhibits class imbalance distribution. Consequently, existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xuqian Xue , Yiming Lei , Qi Cai , Hongming Shan , Junping Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy, but remains challenging when client data are highly heterogeneous. These challenges are further amplified in multi-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Can Peng , Yuyuan Liu , Yingyu Yang , Pramit Saha , Qianye Yang , J. Alison Noble

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

Invariant Contrastive Learning (ICL) methods have achieved impressive performance across various domains. However, the absence of latent space representation for distortion (augmentation)-related information in the latent space makes ICL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Sifan Song , Jinfeng Wang , Qiaochu Zhao , Xiang Li , Dufan Wu , Angelos Stefanidis , Jionglong Su , S. Kevin Zhou , Quanzheng Li

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to contrast positive-negative counterparts to learn the node embeddings, whereas graph data augmentation methods are employed to generate these positive-negative samples. The variation, quantity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adnan Ali , Jinlong Li , Huanhuan Chen , Ali Kashif Bashir

In this work, we propose two stochastic architectural models (CMC and CMC-M) with two layers of classifiers applicable to datasets with one and multiple skewed classes. This distinction becomes important when the datasets have a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Luis Marujo , Anatole Gershman , Jaime Carbonell , David Martins de Matos , João P. Neto

Traditional Graph Neural Network (GNN), as a graph representation learning method, is constrained by label information. However, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) methods, which tackle the label problem effectively, mainly focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kai Yang , Yuan Liu , Zijuan Zhao , Peijin Ding , Wenqian Zhao

Data imbalance is a well-known issue in the field of machine learning, attributable to the cost of data collection, the difficulty of labeling, and the geographical distribution of the data. In computer vision, bias in data distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Shubham Shrivastava , Xianling Zhang , Sushruth Nagesh , Armin Parchami

Clustering continues to be a significant and challenging task. Recent studies have demonstrated impressive results by applying clustering to feature representations acquired through self-supervised learning, particularly on small datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Fei Ding , Dan Zhang , Yin Yang , Venkat Krovi , Feng Luo

Real-world data often follow a long-tailed distribution with a high imbalance in the number of samples between classes. The problem with training from imbalanced data is that some background features, common to all classes, can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Sanglee Park , Seung-won Hwang , Jungmin So

Meta-learning frameworks for few-shot learning aims to learn models that can learn new skills or adapt to new environments rapidly with a few training examples. This has led to the generalizability of the developed model towards new classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Saaketh Medepalli , Naren Doraiswamy

Machine learning (ML) models have difficulty generalizing when the number of training class instances are numerically imbalanced. The problem of generalization in the face of data imbalance has largely been attributed to the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Damien A. Dablain , Nitesh V. Chawla

Despite its empirical success, the theoretical foundations of self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) are not yet fully established. In this work, we address this gap by showing that standard CL objectives implicitly approximate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Achleshwar Luthra , Tianbao Yang , Tomer Galanti