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The sequential recommendation aims at predicting the next items in user behaviors, which can be solved by characterizing item relationships in sequences. Due to the data sparsity and noise issues in sequences, a new self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zhiwei Liu , Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Man Luo , Philip S. Yu , Caiming Xiong

In recent years, self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach for extracting valuable representations from unlabeled data. One successful SSL method is contrastive learning, which aims to bring positive examples closer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Zeen Song , Xingzhe Su , Jingyao Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun

Efficient training strategies for large-scale diffusion models have recently emphasized the importance of improving discriminative feature representations in these models. A central line of work in this direction is representation alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Junno Yun , Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

In this paper, we introduce a novel self-supervised learning (SSL) loss for image representation learning. There is a growing belief that generalization in deep neural networks is linked to their ability to discriminate object shapes. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sepehr Sameni , Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

In this study, a novel self-supervised learning (SSL) method is proposed, which considers SSL in terms of variational inference to learn not only representation but also representation uncertainties. SSL is a method of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Hiroki Nakamura , Masashi Okada , Tadahiro Taniguchi

The costly and time-consuming annotation process to produce large training sets for modelling semantic LiDAR segmentation methods has motivated the development of semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods. However, such SSL approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yuyuan Liu , Yuanhong Chen , Hu Wang , Vasileios Belagiannis , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

Unsupervised and self-supervised representation learning has become popular in recent years for learning useful features from unlabelled data. Representation learning has been mostly developed in the neural network literature, and other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Pascal Esser , Maximilian Fleissner , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

This paper demonstrates an approach for learning highly semantic image representations without relying on hand-crafted data-augmentations. We introduce the Image-based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (I-JEPA), a non-generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Mahmoud Assran , Quentin Duval , Ishan Misra , Piotr Bojanowski , Pascal Vincent , Michael Rabbat , Yann LeCun , Nicolas Ballas

Non-contrastive SSL methods like BYOL and SimSiam rely on asymmetric predictor networks to avoid representational collapse without negative samples. Yet, how predictor networks facilitate stable learning is not fully understood. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Manu Srinath Halvagal , Axel Laborieux , Friedemann Zenke

Inspired by the success of generative pretraining in natural language, we ask whether the same principles can yield strong self-supervised visual learners. Instead of training models to output features for downstream use, we train them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sihan Xu , Ziqiao Ma , Wenhao Chai , Xuweiyi Chen , Weiyang Jin , Joyce Chai , Saining Xie , Stella X. Yu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have brought tremendous success across many tasks and domains. It has been argued that these successes can be attributed to a link between SSL and identifiable representation learning: Temporal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Rodrigo González Laiz , Tobias Schmidt , Steffen Schneider

Graph representation learning has emerged as a cornerstone for tasks like node classification and link prediction, yet prevailing self-supervised learning (SSL) methods face challenges such as computational inefficiency, reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Srinitish Srinivasan , Omkumar CU

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

The Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) is often seen as a non-generative alternative to likelihood-based self-supervised learning, emphasizing prediction in representation space rather than reconstruction in observation space.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Moritz Gögl , Christopher Yau

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning by optimizing geometric objectives, such as invariance to augmentations, variance preservation, and feature decorrelation, without requiring…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-09 M. Hadi Sepanj , Benyamin Ghojogh , Saed Moradi , Paul Fieguth

We introduce a novel Pseudo-Negative Regularization (PNR) framework for effective continual self-supervised learning (CSSL). Our PNR leverages pseudo-negatives obtained through model-based augmentation in a way that newly learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sungmin Cha , Kyunghyun Cho , Taesup Moon

Contrastive learning is a powerful framework for learning self-supervised representations that generalize well to downstream supervised tasks. We show that multiple existing contrastive learning methods can be reinterpreted as learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Daniel D. Johnson , Ayoub El Hanchi , Chris J. Maddison

Recent studies on semi-supervised learning (SSL) have achieved great success. Despite their promising performance, current state-of-the-art methods tend toward increasingly complex designs at the cost of introducing more network components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Khanh-Binh Nguyen

The representation learning problem in the oil & gas industry aims to construct a model that provides a representation based on logging data for a well interval. Previous attempts are mainly supervised and focus on similarity task, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Alexander Marusov , Alexey Zaytsev

We present EB-JEPA, an open-source library for learning representations and world models using Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs). JEPAs learn to predict in representation space rather than pixel space, avoiding the pitfalls…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Basile Terver , Randall Balestriero , Megi Dervishi , David Fan , Quentin Garrido , Tushar Nagarajan , Koustuv Sinha , Wancong Zhang , Mike Rabbat , Yann LeCun , Amir Bar