arXiv Machine Learning

Mirror-Fusion Attention for Reflection-Aware Self-Supervised Representation Learning

arXiv:2607. 00850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most self-supervised learning (SSL) methods encourage invariance across augmentations, but strict flip invariance can suppress informative left--right correspondences in approximately bilateral data such as medical images and human faces.

arXiv AI
Sep 21

The Impact of Semantic Pairs on Self-Supervised Representation Learning

The paper investigates the effect of using semantic positive pairs—different instances of the same class—in self‑supervised visual representation learning. By creating matched ImageNet‑1K subsets of augmented pairs and manually curated semantic pairs, the authors compare contrastive and non‑contrastive SSL methods under identical training conditions. Across transfer learning and object detection tasks, semantic‑pair pretraining consistently outperforms augmented‑pair pretraining, with contrastive methods like SimCLR showing the largest gains, indicating that semantic pairs foster additional invariances beyond standard augmentations.

By Mohammad Alkhalefi, Georgios Leontidis, Mingjun Zhong
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

Not All Patches are Equal: Sampling Matters for Visible-Infrared Pre-Training

Visible-infrared (VIS-IR) alignment is a key pre-training task for robust multi-sensor perception. Most existing methods use uniform patch-wise contrastive learning, but this can be unreliable in VIS-IR data because imaging-physics differences make some spatially paired regions inherently less comparable, and aligning them with equal strength hinders representation learning and downstream transfer.

arXiv AI
Jun 11

ARGUS: Stacked Multi-View Identity Mosaic Injection for Subject-Preserving Video Generation

arXiv:2606. 11670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Subject-preserving video generation is not solved by frontal-face similarity alone: a generated person must remain recognizable across motion, large viewpoint changes, expression shifts, occlusion, scale variation, and conflicts among text, first-frame, and identity references.

By Zijie Meng, Jiwen Liu, Yufei Liu, Chengzhuo Tong, Xiaoqiang Liu, Yuanxing Zhang, Yulong Xu, Pengfei Wan
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Token-Based Dual-view Fusion and Adaptation of Large Vision Models for Breast Cancer Classification

arXiv:2607. 06309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate breast cancer classification from mammography requires effective integration of complementary information from craniocaudal (CC) and mediolateral oblique (MLO) views, which provide a more complete characterization of breast abnormalities.

By Aysan Ghayouri Pirsoltan, Shima Babakordi, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

TOLiD: Bridging the Architecture Gap in Vision Foundation Model to LiDAR Pretraining via Token Lifting for Distillation

arXiv:2607. 10762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-modal distillation from Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) to LiDAR backbones has recently emerged as a self-supervised pretraining strategy that reduces reliance on dense point-wise annotation for 3D scene understanding.

By Sutharsan Mahendran, Darshana Priyasad, Kaushik Roy, Tharindu Fernando, Sridha Sridharan, Clinton Fookes, Peyman Moghadam