Similarity Contrastive Estimation for Self-Supervised Soft Contrastive Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.14585v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:19:15 GMT
• Title: Similarity Contrastive Estimation for Self-Supervised Soft Contrastive Learning
• Authors: Julien Denize, Jaonary Rabarisoa, Astrid Orcesi, Romain H\'erault, St\'ephane Canu
• Abstract summary: We argue that a good data representation contains the relations, or semantic similarity, between the instances. We propose a novel formulation of contrastive learning using semantic similarity between instances called Similarity Contrastive Estimation (SCE) Our training objective can be considered as soft contrastive learning.
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• Abstract: Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method. Most successful approaches are based on the Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) paradigm and consider different views of an instance as positives and other instances as noise that positives should be contrasted with. However, all instances in a dataset are drawn from the same distribution and share underlying semantic information that should not be considered as noise. We argue that a good data representation contains the relations, or semantic similarity, between the instances. Contrastive learning implicitly learns relations but considers the negatives as noise which is harmful to the quality of the learned relations and therefore the quality of the representation. To circumvent this issue we propose a novel formulation of contrastive learning using semantic similarity between instances called Similarity Contrastive Estimation (SCE). Our training objective can be considered as soft contrastive learning. Instead of hard classifying positives and negatives, we propose a continuous distribution to push or pull instances based on their semantic similarities. The target similarity distribution is computed from weak augmented instances and sharpened to eliminate irrelevant relations. Each weak augmented instance is paired with a strong augmented instance that contrasts its positive while maintaining the target similarity distribution. Experimental results show that our proposed SCE outperforms its baselines MoCov2 and ReSSL on various datasets and is competitive with state-of-the-art algorithms on the ImageNet linear evaluation protocol.

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