Self-supervised joint embedding learning aligns representations of augmented views while regularizing their distribution to prevent collapse. Regularization aims to shape the overall representation di...
arXiv:2603. 15263v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has revolutionized representation learning, with Joint-Embedding Architectures (JEAs) emerging as an effective approach for capturing semantic features.
The paper introduces GloFND, an optimization-based method that learns a threshold for each anchor image during training to automatically detect false negative pairs in self-supervised contrastive learning. Unlike prior approaches that only consider false negatives within a mini-batch, GloFND globally identifies them across the entire dataset while keeping per-iteration computation independent of dataset size. Experiments on image and image-text data show the method’s effectiveness, and the implementation is publicly available.
Learning-State-Aware Dynamic Generative Data Augmentation on Small-Scale Datasets proposes LSADA, a method that constructs a learning state for each sample based on its loss and loss‑decrease rate to determine a sample‑specific augmentation strength. LSADA also introduces a decoupled data augmentation and diffusion fusion strategy that applies strength‑controlled transformations to class‑relevant regions while generating diverse class‑irrelevant regions, progressively fusing them to enhance image diversity while preserving class semantics. Experiments on nine public datasets demonstrate that LSADA outperforms the current state‑of‑the‑art dynamic GDA method by an average of 4.5% on six natural image datasets and 2.5% on three medical image datasets.
arXiv:2608. 08309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We argue that learning visual representations without labels requires a training signal jointly complete across three non-overlapping objectives: semantic invariance across augmented views, patch-level spatial prediction, and representational non-degeneracy.
The paper introduces SCION, a single-model framework that jointly learns generative and self‑supervised representation tasks without relying on labels or pretrained encoders. SCION uses a pixel‑space encoder conditioned on a flow timestep and a shared embedding, training contrastive and flow‑matching objectives simultaneously with gradient‑norm balancing and stop‑gradient techniques. On ImageNet 256×256, SCION achieves state‑of‑the‑art FID scores (8.92 with JiT‑B and 5.89/3.47 with JiT‑L) surpassing prior class‑unconditional and pretrained‑conditioned methods.
arXiv:2608.28923v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data augmentation is a cornerstone of deep learning pipelines, yet existing strategies treat it as a static, model-agnostic preprocessing step, eithe...
arXiv:2607. 16261v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern optimizers combine gradients from the current mini-batch with historical optimization state, such as momentum or adaptive moments.
arXiv:2603.02767v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Image--text contrastive pretraining has become a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning, yet existing methods often yield repre...
arXiv:2605. 23995v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) is increasingly used in medical image analysis to reduce dependence on costly expert annotations by learning transferable representations from unlabeled data.
The paper explores contrastive self‑supervised learning (SSL) for retinal fundus image classification, comparing SimSiam and SimCLR under limited data and computational resources. It investigates how retinal‑specific augmentation strategies and training parameters affect representation quality, evaluated through linear probing and fine‑tuning on multi‑disease classification and diabetic retinopathy grading tasks. The results demonstrate that tailored augmentations enable lightweight SSL models to learn transferable representations, reducing reliance on large annotated datasets while achieving competitive performance.
arXiv:2602.05391v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dataset distillation seeks to synthesize a compact surrogate dataset that enables performance comparable to training on the original dataset for do...