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Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a popular setting aiming to effectively utilize unlabelled data to improve model performance in downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Currently, there are two popular approaches to make use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhengxiang Shi , Francesco Tonolini , Nikolaos Aletras , Emine Yilmaz , Gabriella Kazai , Yunlong Jiao

This thesis studies advanced probabilistic models, including both their theoretical foundations and practical applications, for different semi-supervised learning (SSL) tasks. The proposed probabilistic methods are able to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Jianfeng Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a key technique for training networks that can generalize well to diverse tasks without task-specific supervision. This property makes SSL desirable for computational pathology, the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Eric Zimmermann , Neil Tenenholtz , James Hall , George Shaikovski , Michal Zelechowski , Adam Casson , Fausto Milletari , Julian Viret , Eugene Vorontsov , Siqi Liu , Kristen Severson

Computer-aided diagnosis via deep learning relies on large-scale annotated data sets, which can be costly when involving expert knowledge. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) mitigates this challenge by leveraging unlabeled data. One effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Prashnna Kumar Gyawali , Sandesh Ghimire , Pradeep Bajracharya , Zhiyuan Li , Linwei Wang

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

The semi-supervised learning (SSL) strategy in lightweight models requires reducing annotated samples and facilitating cost-effective inference. However, the constraint on model parameters, imposed by the scarcity of training labels, limits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Qianren Mao , Weifeng Jiang , Junnan Liu , Chenghua Lin , Qian Li , Xianqing Wen , Jianxin Li , Jinhu Lu

In the domain of semi-supervised learning (SSL), the conventional approach involves training a learner with a limited amount of labeled data alongside a substantial volume of unlabeled data, both drawn from the same underlying distribution.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

Most of the current self-supervised representation learning (SSL) methods are based on the contrastive loss and the instance-discrimination task, where augmented versions of the same image instance ("positives") are contrasted with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Aleksandr Ermolov , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Enver Sangineto , Nicu Sebe

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) constructs classifiers using both labelled and unlabelled data. It leverages information from labelled samples, whose acquisition is often costly or labour-intensive, together with unlabelled data to enhance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Jinran Wu , You-Gan Wang , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) offers a powerful way to learn robust, generalizable representations without labeled data. In music, where labeled data is scarce, existing SSL methods typically use generated supervision and multi-view…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Julia Wilkins , Sivan Ding , Magdalena Fuentes , Juan Pablo Bello

Foundation models (FMs), powered by self-supervised learning (SSL), have redefined the capabilities of artificial intelligence, demonstrating exceptional performance in domains like natural language processing and computer vision. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hamdi Altaheri , Fakhri Karray , Md. Milon Islam , S M Taslim Uddin Raju , Amir-Hossein Karimi

Decentralized learning has been advocated and widely deployed to make efficient use of distributed datasets, with an extensive focus on supervised learning (SL) problems. Unfortunately, the majority of real-world data are unlabeled and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Lirui Wang , Kaiqing Zhang , Yunzhu Li , Yonglong Tian , Russ Tedrake

The premise of semi-supervised learning (SSL) is that combining labeled and unlabeled data yields significantly more accurate models. Despite empirical successes, the theoretical understanding of SSL is still far from complete. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-06 Eyar Azar , Boaz Nadler

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) including the mainstream contrastive learning has achieved great success in learning visual representations without data annotations. However, most of methods mainly focus on the instance level information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) have largely closed the gap with supervised ImageNet pretraining. Despite their success these methods have been primarily applied to unlabeled ImageNet images, and show marginal gains when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Karan Desai , Justin Johnson , Nikhil Naik

The cost of head pose labeling is the main challenge of improving the fine-grained Head Pose Estimation (HPE). Although Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) can be a solution to the lack of huge amounts of labeled data, its efficacy for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mahdi Pourmirzaei , Farzaneh Esmaili , Ebrahim Mousavi , Sasan Karamizadeh , Seyedehsamaneh Shojaeilangari

Recently, pioneer work finds that speech pre-trained models can solve full-stack speech processing tasks, because the model utilizes bottom layers to learn speaker-related information and top layers to encode content-related information.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Chengyi Wang , Yu Wu , Sanyuan Chen , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Yao Qian , Zhenglu Yang

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

While semi-supervised learning (SSL) has proven to be a promising way for leveraging unlabeled data when labeled data is scarce, the existing SSL algorithms typically assume that training class distributions are balanced. However, these SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jaehyung Kim , Youngbum Hur , Sejun Park , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Deep learning based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms have led to promising results in recent years. However, they tend to introduce multiple tunable hyper-parameters, making them less practical in real SSL scenarios where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yulin Wang , Jiayi Guo , Shiji Song , Gao Huang