Contrastive Learning via Randomly Generated Deep Supervision

Shibo Wang, Zili Ma, Ka Hou Chan, Yue Liu, Tong Tong, Qinquan Gao, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaohong Liu, Tao Tan

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Abstract

Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained significant attention in the computer vision community, driven by recent advancements in contrastive learning. Most existing contrastive learning frameworks rely on instance discrimination as a pretext task, treating each instance as a distinct category. However, this often leads to intra-class collision in a large latent space, compromising the quality of learned representations. To address this issue, we propose a novel contrastive learning method that utilizes randomly generated supervision signals. Our framework incorporates two projection heads: one handles conventional classification tasks, while the other employs a random algorithm to generate fixed-length vectors representing different classes. The second head executes a supervised contrastive learning task based on these vectors, effectively clustering instances of the same class and increasing the separation between different classes. Our method, Contrastive Learning via Randomly Generated Supervision(CLRGS), significantly improves the quality of feature representations across various datasets and achieves state-of-the-art performance in contrastive learning tasks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025 - Proceedings
EditorsBhaskar D Rao, Isabel Trancoso, Gaurav Sharma, Neelesh B. Mehta
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350368741
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025 - Hyderabad, India
Duration: 6 Apr 202511 Apr 2025

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityHyderabad
Period6/04/2511/04/25

Keywords

  • Class collision
  • Contrastive learning
  • Supervised contrastive learning

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