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Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to categorize each pixel in an image into a corresponding class without the use of annotated data. It is a widely researched area as obtaining labeled datasets is expensive. While previous works in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yau Shing Jonathan Cheung , Xi Chen , Lihe Yang , Hengshuang Zhao

There is a family of label modification approaches including self and non-self label correction (LC), and output regularisation. They are widely used for training robust deep neural networks (DNNs), but have not been mathematically and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Xinshao Wang , Yang Hua , Elyor Kodirov , Sankha Subhra Mukherjee , David A. Clifton , Neil M. Robertson

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge learned from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Contrastive learning (CL) in the context of UDA can help to better separate classes in feature space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Mingxuan Gu , Sulaiman Vesal , Mareike Thies , Zhaoya Pan , Fabian Wagner , Mirabela Rusu , Andreas Maier , Ronak Kosti

The segmentation of endoscopic images plays a vital role in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. The advancements in deep learning have led to the employment of numerous models for endoscopic tumor segmentation, achieving promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Lingcong Cai , Yun Li , Xiaomao Fan , Kaixuan Song , Ruxin Wang , Wenbin Lei

Variational Graph Auto-Encoders (VGAEs) have been widely used to solve the node clustering task. However, the state-of-the-art methods have numerous challenges. First, existing VGAEs do not account for the discrepancy between the inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Nairouz Mrabah , Mohamed Bouguessa , Riadh Ksantini

Predicting whether a treatment leads to meaningful improvement is a central challenge in personalized medicine, particularly when disease progression manifests as subtle visual changes over time. While data-driven deep learning (DL) offers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Jana Armouti , Nikhil Madaan , Rohan Panda , Tom Fox , Laura Hutchins , Amita Krishnan , Ricardo Rodriguez , Bennett DeBoisblanc , Deva Ramanan , John Galeotti , Gautam Gare

Despite its success in self-supervised learning, contrastive learning is less studied in the supervised setting. In this work, we first use a set of pilot experiments to show that in the supervised setting, the cross-entropy loss objective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Liz Li , Wei Zhu

Adapting pre-trained deep learning models to customized tasks has become a popular choice for developers to cope with limited computational resources and data volume. More specifically, probing--training a downstream head on a pre-trained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ruyi Ding , Tong Zhou , Lili Su , Aidong Adam Ding , Xiaolin Xu , Yunsi Fei

Contrastive representation learning has been recently proved to be very efficient for self-supervised training. These methods have been successfully used to train encoders which perform comparably to supervised training on downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ibrahim Merad , Yiyang Yu , Emmanuel Bacry , Stéphane Gaïffas

Contrastive learning has proven to be highly efficient and adaptable in shaping representation spaces across diverse modalities by pulling similar samples together and pushing dissimilar ones apart. However, two key limitations persist: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ziwen Wang , Jiajun Fan , Thao Nguyen , Heng Ji , Ge Liu

Unsupervised learning and supervised learning are key research topics in deep learning. However, as high-capacity supervised neural networks trained with a large amount of labels have achieved remarkable success in many computer vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Yuting Zhang , Kibok Lee , Honglak Lee

Labeling of multivariate biomedical time series data is a laborious and expensive process. Self-supervised contrastive learning alleviates the need for large, labeled datasets through pretraining on unlabeled data. However, for multivariate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-21 Thea Brüsch , Mikkel N. Schmidt , Tommy S. Alstrøm

Intra-class variability is given according to the significance in the degree of dissimilarity between images within a class. In that sense, depending on its intensity, intra-class variability can hinder the learning process for DL models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Luciano Araujo Dourado Filho , Rodrigo Tripodi Calumby

Lacking supervised data is an issue while training deep neural networks (DNNs), mainly when considering medical and biological data where supervision is expensive. Recently, Embedded Pseudo-Labeling (EPL) addressed this problem by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Bárbara Caroline Benato , Alexandre Xavier Falcão , Alexandru-Cristian Telea

Pre-trained language models (PLM) are effective components of few-shot named entity recognition (NER) approaches when augmented with continued pre-training on task-specific out-of-domain data or fine-tuning on in-domain data. However, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Yuxuan Chen , Jonas Mikkelsen , Arne Binder , Christoph Alt , Leonhard Hennig

Unsupervised and self-supervised learning methods have leveraged unlabelled data to improve the pretrained models. However, these methods need significantly large amount of unlabelled data and the computational cost of training models with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Utkarsh Chauhan , Vikas Joshi , Rupesh R. Mehta

Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) aims to categorize closely related subclasses, a task complicated by minimal inter-class differences and significant intra-class variance. Existing methods often rely on additional annotations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Pengxiang Gao , Yihao Liang , Yanzhi Song , Zhouwang Yang

Ultra-fine-grained visual categorization (Ultra-FGVC) aims at distinguishing highly similar sub-categories within fine-grained objects, such as different soybean cultivars. Compared to traditional fine-grained visual categorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yu Liu , Yaqi Cai , Qi Jia , Binglin Qiu , Weimin Wang , Nan Pu

EEG-based emotion recognition often requires sufficient labeled training samples to build an effective computational model. Labeling EEG data, on the other hand, is often expensive and time-consuming. To tackle this problem and reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Guangyi Zhang , Ali Etemad

The challenges of high intra-class variance yet low inter-class fluctuations in fine-grained visual categorization are more severe with few labeled samples, \textit{i.e.,} Fine-Grained categorization problems under the Few-Shot setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Huaxi Huang , Junjie Zhang , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu , Chang Xu