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Contrastive Learning

Learning by contrasting positive and negative pairs

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Also includes: contrastive learning, contrastive, simclr, moco, graph contrastive learning

Top Papers

#1

TimesURL: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Universal Time Series Representation Learning

jiexi Liu, Songcan Chen

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.15709
self-supervised contrastive learningtime series representation learninguniversal representation learningtemporal data augmentation+4
102
citations
#2

Decoupled Contrastive Multi-View Clustering with High-Order Random Walks

Yiding Lu, Yijie Lin, Mouxing Yang et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2308.11164
multi-view clusteringcontrastive learningfalse negative issuerandom walks+4
90
citations
#3

Describing Differences in Image Sets with Natural Language

Lisa Dunlap, Yuhui Zhang, Xiaohan Wang et al.

CVPR 2024
51
citations
#4

Soft Contrastive Learning for Time Series

Seunghan Lee, Taeyoung Park, Kibok Lee

ICLR 2024
48
citations
#5

Debiasing Multimodal Sarcasm Detection with Contrastive Learning

Mengzhao Jia, Can Xie, Liqiang Jing

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.10493
multimodal sarcasm detectioncontrastive learningout-of-distribution generalizationdebiasing methods+4
43
citations
#6

PolyGCL: GRAPH CONTRASTIVE LEARNING via Learnable Spectral Polynomial Filters

Jingyu Chen, Runlin Lei, Zhewei Wei

ICLR 2024
39
citations
#7

Enhancing Visual Document Understanding with Contrastive Learning in Large Visual-Language Models

Xin Li, Yunfei Wu, Xinghua Jiang et al.

CVPR 2024
37
citations
#8

Do Generated Data Always Help Contrastive Learning?

Yifei Wang, Jizhe Zhang, Yisen Wang

ICLR 2024
35
citations
#9

Graph-Aware Contrasting for Multivariate Time-Series Classification

Yucheng Wang, Yuecong Xu, Jianfei Yang et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2309.05202
contrastive learningmultivariate time seriesgraph augmentationsspatial consistency+4
32
citations
#10

TopoGCL: Topological Graph Contrastive Learning

Yuzhou Chen, Jose Frias, Yulia Gel

AAAI 2024arXiv:2406.17251
graph contrastive learningtopological invarianceextended persistencegraph neural networks+4
30
citations
#11

What to align in multimodal contrastive learning?

Benoit Dufumier, Javiera Castillo Navarro, Devis Tuia et al.

ICLR 2025
30
citations
#12

Contextrast: Contextual Contrastive Learning for Semantic Segmentation

Changki Sung, Wanhee Kim, Jungho An et al.

CVPR 2024
28
citations
#13

Dispel Darkness for Better Fusion: A Controllable Visual Enhancer based on Cross-modal Conditional Adversarial Learning

HAO ZHANG, Linfeng Tang, Xinyu Xiang et al.

CVPR 2024
27
citations
#14

Contrasting Intra-Modal and Ranking Cross-Modal Hard Negatives to Enhance Visio-Linguistic Compositional Understanding

Le Zhang, Rabiul Awal, Aishwarya Agrawal

CVPR 2024
27
citations
#15

Text-Based Occluded Person Re-identification via Multi-Granularity Contrastive Consistency Learning

Xinyi Wu, Wentao Ma, Dan Guo et al.

AAAI 2024
26
citations
#16

Contrastive Learning for DeepFake Classification and Localization via Multi-Label Ranking

Cheng-Yao Hong, Yen-Chi Hsu, Tyng-Luh Liu

CVPR 2024
24
citations
#17

SCD-Net: Spatiotemporal Clues Disentanglement Network for Self-Supervised Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

Cong Wu, Xiao-Jun Wu, Josef Kittler et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2309.05834
skeleton-based action recognitioncontrastive learningspatiotemporal disentanglementmasked image modeling+4
24
citations
#18

Graph Contrastive Invariant Learning from the Causal Perspective

9672 Yanhu Mo, Xiao Wang, Shaohua Fan et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2401.12564
graph contrastive learninginvariant representation learningstructural causal modelspectral graph augmentation+4
22
citations
#19

Generating and Reweighting Dense Contrastive Patterns for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

Songmin Dai, Yifan Wu, Xiaoqiang Li et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.15911
unsupervised anomaly detectiondiffusion modelscontrastive pattern generationanomaly generation paradigm+4
20
citations
#20

ConR: Contrastive Regularizer for Deep Imbalanced Regression

Mahsa Keramati, Lili Meng, R. Evans

ICLR 2024
20
citations
#21

Customizing Language Model Responses with Contrastive In-Context Learning

Xiang Gao, Kamalika Das

AAAI 2024arXiv:2401.17390
contrastive learninglanguage model alignmentin-context learningintent customization+4
19
citations
#22

A New Mechanism for Eliminating Implicit Conflict in Graph Contrastive Learning

Dongxiao He, Jitao Zhao, Cuiying Huo et al.

AAAI 2024
18
citations
#23

BaCon: Boosting Imbalanced Semi-supervised Learning via Balanced Feature-Level Contrastive Learning

Qianhan Feng, Lujing Xie, Shijie Fang et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2403.12986
semi-supervised learningclass imbalancecontrastive learningfeature-level regularization+4
15
citations
#24

Personalized Federated Learning for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting: A Dual Semantic Alignment-Based Contrastive Approach

Qingxiang Liu, Sheng Sun, Yuxuan Liang et al.

AAAI 2025
13
citations
#25

UniNet: A Contrastive Learning-guided Unified Framework with Feature Selection for Anomaly Detection

Shun Wei, Jielin Jiang, Xiaolong Xu

CVPR 2025
13
citations
#26

Multi-Label Cluster Discrimination for Visual Representation Learning

Xiang An, Kaicheng Yang, Xiangzi Dai et al.

ECCV 2024arXiv:2407.17331
contrastive language image pre-trainingimage-text contrastive learningcluster discriminationmulti-label classification+3
12
citations
#27

$\mathbb{X}$-Sample Contrastive Loss: Improving Contrastive Learning with Sample Similarity Graphs

Vlad Sobal, Mark Ibrahim, Randall Balestriero et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2407.18134
contrastive learningsample similarity graphsvision-language modelsrepresentation learning+4
12
citations
#28

Universal Novelty Detection Through Adaptive Contrastive Learning

Hossein Mirzaei, Mojtaba Nafez, Mohammad Jafari et al.

CVPR 2024
12
citations
#29

Noisy Correspondence Learning with Self-Reinforcing Errors Mitigation

Zhuohang Dang, Minnan Luo, Chengyou Jia et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.16478
noisy correspondence learningcross-modal retrievalenergy uncertaintyhard negatives+3
11
citations
#30

Synergistic Anchored Contrastive Pre-training for Few-Shot Relation Extraction

Da Luo, Yanglei Gan, Rui Hou et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.12021
few-shot relation extractioncontrastive learningpre-trained language modelssentence-anchored contrastive loss+4
11
citations
#31

Bias-Conflict Sample Synthesis and Adversarial Removal Debias Strategy for Temporal Sentence Grounding in Video

Zhaobo Qi, Yibo Yuan, Xiaowen Ruan et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2401.07567
temporal sentence groundingdataset biasadversarial trainingmultimodal alignment+4
11
citations
#32

Optimal Sample Complexity of Contrastive Learning

Noga Alon, Dmitrii Avdiukhin, Dor Elboim et al.

ICLR 2024
11
citations
#33

The Double-Ellipsoid Geometry of CLIP

Meir Yossef Levi, Guy Gilboa

ICML 2025
10
citations
#34

Backdoor Contrastive Learning via Bi-level Trigger Optimization

Weiyu Sun, Xinyu Zhang, Hao LU et al.

ICLR 2024
10
citations
#35

DenoSent: A Denoising Objective for Self-Supervised Sentence Representation Learning

Xinghao Wang, Junliang He, Pengyu Wang et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2401.13621
sentence representation learningcontrastive learning methodssemantic textual similaritydenoising objective+3
9
citations
#36

Knowledge-Aligned Counterfactual-Enhancement Diffusion Perception for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Visual Emotion Recognition

Wen Yin, Yong Wang, Guiduo Duan et al.

CVPR 2025
9
citations
#37

Hybrid Distillation: Connecting Masked Autoencoders with Contrastive Learners

Bowen Shi, XIAOPENG ZHANG, Yaoming Wang et al.

ICLR 2024
9
citations
#38

Poly-View Contrastive Learning

Amitis Shidani, R Devon Hjelm, Jason Ramapuram et al.

ICLR 2024
9
citations
#39

Generalized Bradley-Terry Models for Score Estimation from Paired Comparisons

Julien Fageot, Lê-Nguyên Hoang, Oscar Villemaud et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2308.08644
bradley-terry modelspaired comparisonsscore estimationexponential family+2
8
citations
#40

Continual Multimodal Contrastive Learning

Xiaohao Liu, Xiaobo Xia, See-Kiong Ng et al.

NeurIPS 2025
8
citations
#41

RAVE: Residual Vector Embedding for CLIP-Guided Backlit Image Enhancement

Tatiana Gaintseva, Martin Benning, Greg Slabaugh

ECCV 2024
8
citations
#42

FALCON: Fairness Learning via Contrastive Attention Approach to Continual Semantic Scene Understanding

Thanh-Dat Truong, Utsav Prabhu, Bhiksha Raj et al.

CVPR 2025
8
citations
#43

Learning from negative feedback, or positive feedback or both

Abbas Abdolmaleki, Bilal Piot, Bobak Shahriari et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2410.04166
preference optimizationnegative feedback learningexpectation-maximization algorithmshuman feedback training+3
7
citations
#44

PairingNet: A Learning-based Pair-searching and -matching Network for Image Fragments

rixin zhou, Ding Xia, YI ZHANG et al.

ECCV 2024
7
citations
#45

Holistic Unlearning Benchmark: A Multi-Faceted Evaluation for Text-to-Image Diffusion Model Unlearning

Saemi Moon, Minjong Lee, Sangdon Park et al.

ICCV 2025
7
citations
#46

Enhancing Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker TTS with Negated Speaker Representations

Yejin Jeon, Yunsu Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee

AAAI 2024arXiv:2401.02014
zero-shot ttsmulti-speaker synthesisspeaker disentanglementnegation feature learning+4
6
citations
#47

Boosting Short Text Classification with Multi-Source Information Exploration and Dual-Level Contrastive Learning

Yonghao Liu, Mengyu Li, Wei Pang et al.

AAAI 2025
6
citations
#48

Bi-level Contrastive Learning for Knowledge-Enhanced Molecule Representations

Pengcheng Jiang, Cao Xiao, Tianfan Fu et al.

AAAI 2025
6
citations
#49

Doubly Contrastive Learning for Source-Free Domain Adaptive Person Search

Yizhen Jia, Rong Quan, Yue Feng et al.

AAAI 2025
6
citations
#50

Noise-assisted Prompt Learning for Image Forgery Detection and Localization

Dong Li, Jiaying Zhu, Xueyang Fu et al.

ECCV 2024
6
citations
#51

DyCON: Dynamic Uncertainty-aware Consistency and Contrastive Learning for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation

Maregu Assefa, Muzammal Naseer, IYYAKUTTI IYAPPAN GANAPATHI et al.

CVPR 2025arXiv:2504.04566
semi-supervised learningmedical image segmentationconsistency learningcontrastive learning+4
6
citations
#52

ReNeg: Learning Negative Embedding with Reward Guidance

Xiaomin Li, yixuan liu, Takashi Isobe et al.

CVPR 2025
5
citations
#53

One Leaf Reveals the Season: Occlusion-Based Contrastive Learning with Semantic-Aware Views for Efficient Visual Representation

Xiaoyu Yang, Lijian Xu, Hongsheng Li et al.

ICML 2025
5
citations
#54

A Simple Graph Contrastive Learning Framework for Short Text Classification

Yonghao Liu, Fausto Giunchiglia, Lan Huang et al.

AAAI 2025
5
citations
#55

Revisiting Graph Contrastive Learning on Anomaly Detection: A Structural Imbalance Perspective

Yiming Xu, Zhen Peng, Bin Shi et al.

AAAI 2025
5
citations
#56

CLOC: Contrastive Learning for Ordinal Classification with Multi-Margin N-pair Loss

Dileepa Pitawela, Gustavo Carneiro, Hsiang-Ting Chen

CVPR 2025
5
citations
#57

Text to Point Cloud Localization with Multi-Level Negative Contrastive Learning

Dunqiang Liu, Shujun Huang, Wen Li et al.

AAAI 2025
4
citations
#58

Learning to Unlearn while Retaining: Combating Gradient Conflicts in Machine Unlearning

Gaurav Patel, Qiang Qiu

ICCV 2025
4
citations
#59

Unify Named Entity Recognition Scenarios via Contrastive Real-Time Updating Prototype

Yanhe Liu, Peng Wang, Ke Wenjun et al.

AAAI 2024
4
citations
#60

SRA-CL: Semantic Retrieval Augmented Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation

Ziqiang Cui, Yunpeng Weng, Xing Tang et al.

NeurIPS 2025
4
citations
#61

Contrastive Learning with Synthetic Positives

Dewen Zeng, Xinrong Hu, Yawen Wu et al.

ECCV 2024
4
citations
#62

WeCromCL: Weakly Supervised Cross-Modality Contrastive Learning for Transcription-only Supervised Text Spotting

Jingjing Wu, Zhengyao Fang, Pengyuan Lyu et al.

ECCV 2024
4
citations
#63

SOLA-GCL: Subgraph-Oriented Learnable Augmentation Method for Graph Contrastive Learning

Tianhao Peng, Xuhong Li, Haitao Yuan et al.

AAAI 2025
4
citations
#64

Instruct-CLIP: Improving Instruction-Guided Image Editing with Automated Data Refinement Using Contrastive Learning

Sherry X. Chen, Misha Sra, Pradeep Sen

CVPR 2025
4
citations
#65

RegMixMatch: Optimizing Mixup Utilization in Semi-Supervised Learning

Haorong Han, Jidong Yuan, Chixuan Wei et al.

AAAI 2025
4
citations
#66

Enhancing Intrinsic Features for Debiasing via Investigating Class-Discerning Common Attributes in Bias-Contrastive Pair

Jeonghoon Park, Chaeyeon Chung, Jaegul Choo

CVPR 2024
4
citations
#67

Multi-Scale Contrastive Learning for Video Temporal Grounding

Thong Thanh Nguyen, Yi Bin, Xiaobao Wu et al.

AAAI 2025
3
citations
#68

Aligning Visual Contrastive learning models via Preference Optimization

Amirabbas Afzali, Borna khodabandeh, Ali Rasekh et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2411.08923
contrastive learningpreference optimizationtypographic attacksvision-language models+3
3
citations
#69

Transfer Learning of Real Image Features with Soft Contrastive Loss for Fake Image Detection

Ziyou Liang, Weifeng Liu, Run Wang et al.

AAAI 2025
3
citations
#70

Contrastive Functional Principal Component Analysis

Eric Zhang, Didong Li

AAAI 2025
3
citations
#71

A Tale of Two Classes: Adapting Supervised Contrastive Learning to Binary Imbalanced Datasets

David Mildenberger, Paul Hager, Daniel Rueckert et al.

CVPR 2025
3
citations
#72

SCAN: Bootstrapping Contrastive Pre-training for Data Efficiency

Yangyang Guo, Mohan Kankanhalli

ICCV 2025arXiv:2411.09126
contrastive pre-trainingdata efficiencydataset pruningvision-language models+4
3
citations
#73

Conditional Balance: Improving Multi-Conditioning Trade-Offs in Image Generation

Nadav Z. Cohen, Oron Nir, Ariel Shamir

CVPR 2025
3
citations
#74

Stable Diffusion Models are Secretly Good at Visual In-Context Learning

Trevine Oorloff, Vishwanath Sindagi, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara et al.

ICCV 2025
3
citations
#75

A Statistical Theory of Contrastive Learning via Approximate Sufficient Statistics

Licong Lin, Song Mei

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2503.17538
contrastive learningapproximate sufficient statisticsdata augmentationrepresentation learning+4
3
citations
#76

A Non-Contrastive Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation with Preference-Preserving Profile Generation

Huimin Zeng, Xiaojie Wang, Anoop Jain et al.

ICLR 2025
2
citations
#77

DPCL-Diff:Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Based on Graph Node Diffusion Model with Dual-Domain Periodic Contrastive Learning

Yukun Cao, LIsheng Wang, Luobin Huang

AAAI 2025
2
citations
#78

Lightweight Contrastive Distilled Hashing for Online Cross-modal Retrieval

Jiaxing Li, Lin Jiang, Zeqi Ma et al.

AAAI 2025
2
citations
#79

AmorLIP: Efficient Language-Image Pretraining via Amortization

Haotian Sun, Yitong Li, Yuchen Zhuang et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2505.18983
contrastive language-image pretrainingzero-shot learningamortized optimizationenergy-based models+4
2
citations
#80

Generalizing while preserving monotonicity in comparison-based preference learning models

Julien Fageot, Peva Blanchard, Gilles Bareilles et al.

NeurIPS 2025
2
citations
#81

Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning

Alicja Ziarko, Michał Bortkiewicz, Michał Zawalski et al.

NeurIPS 2025
2
citations
#82

StyleKeeper: Prevent Content Leakage using Negative Visual Query Guidance

Jaeseok Jeong, Junho Kim, Youngjung Uh et al.

ICCV 2025
2
citations
#83

Test-Time Multimodal Backdoor Detection by Contrastive Prompting

Yuwei Niu, Shuo He, Qi Wei et al.

ICML 2025
2
citations
#84

Differential-informed Sample Selection Accelerates Multimodal Contrastive Learning

Zihua Zhao, Feng Hong, Mengxi Chen et al.

ICCV 2025
2
citations
#85

Discovering Global False Negatives On the Fly for Self-supervised Contrastive Learning

Vicente Balmaseda, Bokun Wang, Lin et al.

ICML 2025
2
citations
#86

CCL-LGS: Contrastive Codebook Learning for 3D Language Gaussian Splatting

Lei Tian, Xiaomin Li, Liqian Ma et al.

ICCV 2025
2
citations
#87

The "Law'' of the Unconscious Contrastive Learner: Probabilistic Alignment of Unpaired Modalities

Yongwei Che, Benjamin Eysenbach

ICLR 2025
1
citations
#88

Multi-modal Contrastive Learning with Negative Sampling Calibration for Phenotypic Drug Discovery

Jiahua Rao, Hanjing Lin, Leyu Chen et al.

CVPR 2025
1
citations
#89

Contrastive Learning from Synthetic Audio Doppelgängers

Manuel Cherep, Nikhil Singh

ICLR 2025arXiv:2406.05923
contrastive learningaudio representation learningsynthetic audio generationsound synthesizer parameterization+2
1
citations
#90

Link-based Contrastive Learning for One-Shot Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Yue Zhang, Mingyue Bin, Yuyang Zhang et al.

CVPR 2025
1
citations
#91

Multi-Label Supervised Contrastive Learning

Pingyue Zhang, Mengyue Wu

AAAI 2024arXiv:2410.13439
supervised contrastive learningmulti-label learningcontrastive loss functionsrepresentation space construction+3
1
citations
#92

Noisy Correspondence Rectification via Asymmetric Similarity Learning

Yunbo Wang, YuJie Wu, Zhien Dai et al.

AAAI 2025
1
citations
#93

Limited Memory Online Gradient Descent for Kernelized Pairwise Learning with Dynamic Averaging

Hilal AlQuabeh, William de Vazelhes, Bin Gu

AAAI 2024arXiv:2402.01146
pairwise learningonline gradient descentkernel pairwise learningmetric learning+4
1
citations
#94

When Can We Approximate Wide Contrastive Models with Neural Tangent Kernels and Principal Component Analysis?

Gautham Govind Anil, Pascal Esser, Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

AAAI 2025
1
citations
#95

CR2PQ: Continuous Relative Rotary Positional Query for Dense Visual Representation Learning

Shaofeng Zhang, Qiang Zhou, Sitong Wu et al.

ICLR 2025
1
citations
#96

Weighted Point Set Embedding for Multimodal Contrastive Learning Toward Optimal Similarity Metric

Toshimitsu Uesaka, Taiji Suzuki, Yuhta Takida et al.

ICLR 2025
1
citations
#97

FALCON: Fine-grained Activation Manipulation by Contrastive Orthogonal Unalignment for Large Language Model

Jinwei Hu, Zhenglin Huang, Xiangyu Yin et al.

NeurIPS 2025
1
citations
#98

LCGC: Learning from Consistency Gradient Conflicting for Class-Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Debiasing

Weiwei Xing, Yue Cheng, Hongzhu Yi et al.

AAAI 2025
1
citations
#99

PairEdit: Learning Semantic Variations for Exemplar-based Image Editing

Haoguang Lu, Jiacheng Chen, Zhenguo Yang et al.

NeurIPS 2025
1
citations
#100

Image-Feature Weak-to-Strong Consistency: An Enhanced Paradigm for Semi-Supervised Learning

Zhiyu Wu, Jin shi Cui

ECCV 2024arXiv:2408.12614
semi-supervised learningconsistency regularizationfeature-level perturbationdata augmentation+3
1
citations