S4 learns new self-supervision automatically, improving accuracy with less human effort.
problem Lack of direct supervision in machine learning.
method Combines deep learning and probabilistic logic to automatically generate and verify new self-supervision.
result S4 can automatically propose accurate self-supervision, matching supervised methods with less human effort.
Self-supervised learning excels in topic modeling by being less model-specific.
problem How self-supervised learning discovers useful representations in topic models.
method Applying self-supervised learning objectives to topic model-generated data.
result Self-supervised learning objectives can recover useful posterior information for topic models, outperforming misspecified models.
Survey of self-supervised learning methods in computer vision, NLP, and graph learning.
problem Manual labeling and vulnerability to attacks in supervised learning.
method Generative, contrastive, and generative-contrastive approaches.
result Self-supervised learning achieves high performance in representation learning.
Self-supervision improves GCNs' generalizability and robustness.
problem Improving graph convolutional networks' performance.
method Three mechanisms of self-supervision, multi-task learning, and graph adversarial training.
result Self-supervision enhances GCNs' robustness and generalizability.
This paper analyzes self-supervised learning from a multi-view perspective.
problem Understanding and optimizing self-supervised learning from multi-view data.
method Information-theoretical framework to understand and design self-supervised learning objectives.
result Self-supervised representations can extract task-relevant information and discard task-irrelevant information.
Generative model explains self-supervised learning across various tasks.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding of self-supervised learning methods.
method Generative latent variable model for self-supervised learning.
result Improves representation learning performance and narrows the gap between generative and discriminative methods.
Novel approach to contextual bandits using self-supervised learning.
problem Exploiting rich data representations in computer vision without explicit labels.
method Combining contextual bandit objective with self-supervision objective.
result Substantial gains in cumulative reward on computer vision datasets.
This work improves adaptive conformal prediction using self-supervised learning.
problem Improving the adaptability of conformal prediction intervals.
method Train an auxiliary model with a self-supervised pretext task on top of an existing predictive model and use the self-supervised error as an additional feature to estimate nonconformity scores.
result Empirically demonstrates the benefit of additional information in improving the efficiency (width), deficit, and excess of conformal prediction intervals.
Improved self-supervised learning for document images.
problem Performance of self-supervised pre-training on document images is poor.
method Proposed context-aware alternatives and a novel multi-modal method.
result Novel method outperforms other self-supervised methods on document image classification.
Paper tackles self-supervised learning for non-homophilous graphs.
problem Existing self-supervised learning methods assume homophilous graphs, but real-world graphs often lack this assumption.
method Develops a decoupled self-supervised learning (DSSL) framework that decouples different semantics between neighborhoods.
result DSSL framework achieves better performance on various graph benchmarks compared to competitive baselines.
We present a technique to improve the transferability of deep representations learned on small labeled datasets by introducing self-supervised tasks as auxiliary loss functions. While recent approaches for self-supervised learning have shown the benefits of training on large unlabeled datasets, we find improvements in …
Self-supervision provides effective representations for downstream tasks without requiring labels. However, existing approaches lag behind fully supervised training and are often not thought beneficial beyond obviating or reducing the need for annotations. We find that self-supervision can benefit robustness in a varie…
Improved self-supervised learning on ImageNet achieves top-1 accuracy of 77.1%.
problem Self-supervised ResNets underperform supervised learning on ImageNet.
method ReLICv2 combines explicit invariance loss with contrastive objective over varied data views.
result ReLICv2 achieves 77.1% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, improving over previous state-of-the-art by 1.5%.
DM improves self-supervised transfer learning by matching target distributions.
problem Improving self-supervised transfer learning performance.
method Distribution Matching (DM) method that drives representation distribution towards a predefined reference distribution.
result DM outperforms existing methods on target classification tasks.
SASSL improves self-supervised learning by preserving image structure.
problem Distorted augmented samples in self-supervised learning.
method Neural Style Transfer to decouple semantic and stylistic attributes.
result Boosts ImageNet top-1 accuracy by up to 2 percentage points.
Survey on self-supervised pre-training for neural networks using unlabeled data.
problem Improving model performance using unlabeled data.
method Pre-training on unlabeled data followed by task-specific adaptation.
result Enhanced model performance through self-supervised pre-training.
New measure quantifies contrastive self-supervised learning's generalization ability.
problem Limited theoretical understanding of contrastive self-supervised learning's generalization.
method Defined (σ,δ)-measure to mathematically quantify data augmentation and provide an upper bound for downstream classification error. result Generalization ability is related to alignment of positive samples, divergence of class centers, and concentration of augmented data.
Plan2Explore learns new tasks efficiently through self-supervised planning.
problem Challenges in reinforcement learning, especially task-specific learning and sample efficiency.
method Self-supervised exploration and fast adaptation to new tasks through efficient planning.
result Plan2Explore outperforms prior methods in learning new tasks without supervision.
Paper analyzes self-supervised learning using causal methods and proposes a new objective.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding of self-supervised learning success.
method Uses a causal framework to enforce invariance constraints on proxy classifiers.
result ReLIC objective improves generalization guarantees and outperforms existing methods.
Self-supervised learning improves ECG classification performance.
problem Label scarcity in clinical 12-lead ECG data.
method Adapted self-supervised methods to ECG domain, focusing on contrastive representations and latent forecasting.
result Contrastive predictive coding adaptation yields linear evaluation performance only 0.5% below supervised performance.
Novel method reduces radiomic data annotation needs.
problem Insufficient labeled radiomic data for disease diagnosis.
method Collaborative self-supervised learning with two pretext tasks.
result Outperforms other self-supervised methods on radiomic data.
Efficiently builds diverse sub-model ensembles for robust self-supervised learning.
problem Challenges in diversity and efficiency of deep ensembles for self-supervised representation learning.
method Ensemble of independent sub-networks with a new loss function for diversity.
result Significantly improves prediction reliability and model calibration.
Self-supervised learning improves few-shot classification and segmentation on point clouds.
problem Efficiently learn from limited labeled data in point cloud applications.
method Hierarchical cover-tree partitioning for self-supervised pre-training; restricted to support set for few-shot learning.
result Self-supervised learning significantly improves downstream classification and segmentation accuracy.
Self-supervised and supervised methods learn similar intermediate visual representations but diverge in final layers.
problem Comparing self-supervised and supervised methods for visual learning.
method Comparison of contrastive self-supervised and supervised methods on simple image data.
result Contrastive and supervised methods learn similar intermediate representations but diverge in final layers.
Self-supervised methods learn from noisy data alone, useful for imaging problems.
problem Inferring signals from noisy and incomplete observations.
method Learning a solver from measurement data alone, without ground-truth references.
result Self-supervised methods can learn meaningful estimates from noisy data.
New framework analyzes why more negative samples improve self-supervised learning performance.
problem Inconsistency between theoretical degradation and empirical improvement of downstream supervised tasks with more negative samples.
method Coupon collector's problem framework to analyze self-supervised representation learning with more negative samples.
result Bound can implicitly incorporate supervised loss in self-supervised loss by increasing negative samples.
Paper analyzes self-supervised image denoising with denatured data.
problem Understanding the performance of self-supervised image denoising with denatured data.
method Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments on a denoising algorithm.
result Theoretical analysis shows the algorithm finds desired solutions to the optimization problem.
Self-supervised learning helps train deep features without needing lots of labeled data.
problem Annotation bottleneck in deep learning.
method Four main families of self-supervised approaches applied to various data modalities.
result Self-supervised methods can now rival fully supervised pre-training across multiple data types.
We propose the first qualitative hypothesis characterizing the behavior of visual transformation based self-supervision, called the VTSS hypothesis. Given a dataset upon which a self-supervised task is performed while predicting instantiations of a transformation, the hypothesis states that if the predicted instantiati…
This paper reviews self-supervised learning methods for time series anomaly detection.
problem Challenges in traditional unsupervised methods for time series anomaly detection.
method Self-supervised learning techniques for time series anomaly detection.
result Enhanced performance of anomaly detectors through self-supervised learning.
Self-supervised metric learning boosts downstream tasks in multi-view data.
problem Improving distance-based downstream tasks without labeled data.
method Developed a statistical framework to study self-supervised metric learning in multi-view data.
result Self-supervised metric learning improves target distances for various downstream tasks.
This paper introduces a method to select and weight pretext tasks for better self-supervised speech representation learning.
problem Combining pretext tasks for better performance in self-supervised speech representation learning.
method Estimating calibrated weights for partial losses corresponding to pretext tasks during self-supervised training.
result Groups of selected and weighted pretext tasks perform better than classic baselines in automatic speech recognition and speaker/emotion recognition.
SinSim improves self-supervised learning by integrating optimal transport into contrastive learning.
problem Lack of explicit regularization in contrastive learning methods leads to suboptimal generalization.
method Integrates Sinkhorn regularization from optimal transport theory into SimCLR.
result SinSim outperforms SimCLR and other self-supervised methods on various datasets.
Self-supervised learning, which learns by constructing artificial labels given only the input signals, has recently gained considerable attention for learning representations with unlabeled datasets, i.e., learning without any human-annotated supervision. In this paper, we show that such a technique can be used to sign…
SSNAS finds neural architectures without labeled data.
problem Limited labeled data for NAS.
method Self-supervised learning for NAS.
result Comparable results to supervised NAS with labeled data.
Unified framework improves deep multi-view clustering by addressing self-supervision and contrastive alignment issues.
problem Variations in self-supervision-based methods for deep multi-view clustering.
method Unified DeepMVC framework that includes recent methods and leverages self-supervision and contrastive alignment.
result Contrastive alignment negatively impacts cluster separability, especially with many views.
New method improves self-supervised representation learning using probabilistic modeling and Monte Carlo integration.
problem Improving self-supervised representation learning for multimodal data.
method Discriminative probabilistic modeling with multiple importance sampling (MIS) for robust Monte Carlo integration.
result Proposes a novel non-parametric method for approximating conditional probability densities through convex optimization.
Self-supervised learning performs better than supervised learning on imbalanced datasets.
problem The performance gap between balanced and imbalanced pre-training with self-supervised learning is smaller than with supervised learning.
method Systematic investigation of self-supervised learning under dataset imbalance, including experiments and theoretical analyses.
result Self-supervised representations are more robust to class imbalance than supervised representations.
Simplified non-contrastive learning avoids representation collapse.
problem Training failure modes in self-supervised learning.
method Hyperdimensional computing and inductive bias.
result The approach avoids representation collapses.
SidAE combines autoencoders and Siamese networks for self-supervised feature extraction.
problem Efficiently extract meaningful features from unlabeled data.
method Proposes SidAE, a combination of autoencoders and Siamese networks for self-supervised image classification.
result SidAE outperforms self-supervised baselines across multiple datasets and scenarios, especially with limited labeled data.
BetaDataWeighter learns weights for unlabelled data to improve self-supervised learning accuracy.
problem Improving unsupervised representations with domain shift between unlabelled and target data.
method Learning Bayesian instance weights for unlabelled data to prioritize useful instances.
result BetaDataWeighter achieves highest average accuracy and prunes up to 78% of images without significant loss in accuracy.
Inspection-L detects illicit cryptocurrency transactions using GNNs and self-supervised learning.
problem Detect illicit cryptocurrency transactions for anti-money laundering.
method Graph Neural Network (GNN) framework based on self-supervised Deep Graph Infomax (DGI) and Graph Isomorphism Network (GIN) with supervised learning algorithms.
result Inspection-L outperforms state-of-the-art methods in key classification metrics.
Minimal variations guide unsupervised learning for better downstream tasks.
problem Efficiently describing raw data for various future tasks.
method Minimal variations as a guiding principle for unsupervised representation learning.
result Unveiling minimal variations as a principle behind unsupervised learning.
Self-supervised learning improves RUL prediction with limited data in fatigue damage prognosis.
problem Limited labelled data for RUL prediction in fatigue damage prognosis.
method Pre-training deep learning models on unlabelled sensor data using self-supervised learning.
result Self-supervised pre-trained models significantly outperform non-pre-trained models in RUL prediction with scarce labelled data.
Theoretical analysis shows pretext-based self-supervised learning can be boosted by downstream data under certain conditions.
problem Theoretical analysis of pretext-based self-supervised learning and downstream data refinement.
method Theoretical analysis and experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets.
result Theoretical lower bounds and experiments show that downstream data refinement can boost or hurt performance depending on conditions.
Self-supervised method improves representation learning for better accuracy.
problem Improving representation learning without manual annotation.
method Proposes a novel self-supervised formulation of relational reasoning.
result Self-supervised relational reasoning outperforms state-of-the-art models by 14% in accuracy.
Self-supervised method improves biosignal models with limited labeled data and subjects.
problem Limited labeled data and subjects in biosignals datasets.
method Contrastive learning with subject-aware loss and data augmentation.
result Self-supervised embeddings yield competitive results compared to supervised methods.
Theoretical study on how model architecture affects contrastive learning performance.
problem Understanding the role of model architecture in self-supervised learning.
method Theoretical analysis of contrastive learning, focusing on model capacity and clustering structures.
result Contrastive representations have lower dimensionality than the number of clusters in the data distribution.