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Hard Negative Sampling Strategies for Contrastive Representation Learning

Year: 2022
Type: preprint
Abstract: One of the challenges in contrastive learning is the selection of appropriate \textit{hard negative} examples, in the absence of label information. Random sampling or importance sampling methods based on feature similarity often lead to sub-optimal performance. In this work, we introduce UnReMix, a hard negative sampling strategy that takes into account anchor similarity, model uncertainty and representativeness. Experimental results on several benchmarks show that UnReMix improves negative sample selection, and subsequently downstream performance when compared to state-of-the-art contrastive learning methods.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4281735404
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