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cs.LG2026

Contrastive Reinforced Policy Optimization via Privileged Self-Distillation

Xingjian Wu, Junlin Liu, Xingchen Liu +6

The paper introduces Contrastive Reinforced Policy Optimization (CRPO), a method that frames on‑policy self‑distillation for large language models as a contrastive learning problem…

#reinforcement learning#self-distillation#contrastive learning#large language models
cs.AI2026

CDAE: Enhancing Perturbation Robustness in Pretrained Language Models with Contrastive Denoising

Sina Heydari, Amirreza Abbasi, Mohsen Hooshmand +1

The paper introduces a lightweight Contrastive Denoising Autoencoder (CDAE) that refines BERT sentence embeddings to be more robust against semantic-preserving perturbations by joi…

#sentence embeddings#contrastive learning#denoising autoencoder#perturbation robustness
cs.AI2026

SKILL-KD: Contrastive Skill Distillation for LLM Agents

Qiming Shi, Yibo Dou, Jiawen Zhu +5

The paper introduces SKILL-KD, a contrastive skill distillation framework that creates explicit textual skill patches from teacher‑student failures to iteratively improve weaker LL…

#large language models#skill distillation#contrastive learning#agent adaptation
cs.CV2026

SCALPEL: Semantic Cross-modal Alignment via LLM-Powered Encoder Learning for Medical Vision-Language Representation

Yunzhan Fu, Enyu Bao, Xiangyu Shen +4

The paper introduces SCALPEL, a framework that fine‑tunes a generative medical LLM into an isotropic encoder and uses an asymmetric, anatomy‑negation‑aware contrastive objective to…

#medical vision-language pretraining#large language model encoders#contrastive learning#anatomy-aware alignment
cs.CR2026

Defending Against Backdoor Attacks via Alignment Checking in Model-Contrastive Federated Learning

Hongliang Zhang, Zhongyuan Yu, Guijuan Wang +4

The paper proposes FedDAB, a two‑phase defense for federated learning that uses contrastive regularization and alignment checking to detect and exclude malicious local updates caus…

#federated learning#backdoor attacks#defense mechanisms#contrastive learning
cs.IR2026

KAMR: Grounding Generation via Knowledge-Aligned Multi-hop Retrieval

Xiaochen Wang, Yuan Zhong, Haoyu Wang +2

The paper presents KAMR, a knowledge‑aligned multi‑hop retriever that first identifies anchor graph triplets strongly tied to a query and then locally expands to connected evidence…

#knowledge graph retrieval#multi-hop retrieval#contrastive learning#query-triplet alignment
cs.CV2026

Zero-Fi: Zero-Shot Wi-Fi-Based Human Activity Recognition via Contrastive Signal-Language Alignment

Yitong Shen, Cheng Guo, Peiliang Wang +5

Zero-Fi introduces a contrastive learning framework that aligns Wi‑Fi signal features with natural‑language descriptions of activities, enabling recognition of unseen human activit…

#zero-shot learning#human activity recognition#wifi sensing#contrastive learning
cs.CV2026

R-SLPR: Region-based Small-to-Large Point-cloud Registration with Contrastive Learning

Yusen Wan, Zeyuan Chen, Qianshi Zou +1

The paper introduces R‑SLPR, a three‑stage framework that registers a small, partial point cloud to a much larger reference by proposing regions, matching them with contrastive lea…

#point cloud registration#small-to-large alignment#region proposal#contrastive learning
cs.LG2026

Good Rankers, Bad Objectives: Bilinear Contrastive Critics under Expressive Policy Search

Ayushman Singh, Siddharth Aphale

The paper investigates why bilinear contrastive critics, which rank actions for reinforcement learning policies, can produce unsafe or misleading rankings due to issues like norm d…

#contrastive learning#policy search#action ranking#bilinear critics
cs.LG2026

Data Fusion and Contrastive Alignment for Unconstrained IR Molecular Structure Elucidation

Ethan J. Mick, Campbell A. Sweet, Matthias J. Young +1

The paper introduces a modified encoder‑decoder transformer with a Mixture‑of‑Experts decoder and contrastive alignment loss to predict full molecular structures directly from infr…

#infrared spectroscopy#molecular structure prediction#transformer models#mixture of experts
cs.LG2026

Multimodal Semantic-Aware Contrastive Learning For False Negative Mitigation in 3D Medical Imaging

Sara Ketabi, Matthias W. Wagner, Cynthia Hawkins +3

The paper proposes a multimodal semantic-aware contrastive learning framework that uses semantic similarity from radiology reports to reduce false negatives when training on 3D bra…

#multimodal learning#contrastive learning#false negative mitigation#3d medical imaging
cs.LG2026

Angular Gaussian Supervised Contrastive Learning for Long-Tailed Electrocardiogram Arrhythmia Diagnosis

Jin Dai, Qiuzhen Zhang, Chenyun Dai +2

The paper introduces Angular Gaussian Supervised Contrastive Learning (AG‑SCL), a method that combines anisotropic contrastive embeddings, adaptive logit adjustment, and tail‑aware…

#electrocardiogram#arrhythmia detection#long-tailed learning#contrastive learning
cs.LG2026

Similarity as Reward Alignment: Robust and Versatile Preference-based Reinforcement Learning

Sara Rajaram, R. James Cotton, Fabian H. Sinz

The paper proposes SARA, a contrastive method that learns latent representations of preferred behaviors and uses similarity as a reward signal, improving robustness to noisy human…

#preference-based reinforcement learning#contrastive learning#reward alignment#label noise robustness
cs.CV2026

AspectCLIP: Optimizing CLIP Representation Space via Aspect-Guided Consistency Regularization

Yiyang Yao, Shanglin Liu, Jianming Lv +4

The paper introduces AspectCLIP, a method that groups image-text pairs by shared textual aspects and applies consistency regularization within these groups to avoid forcing unrelat…

#contrastive learning#image-text alignment#representation learning#aspect-guided regularization
cs.CL2026

Latent Trajectory Discrimination for AI-Generated Text Detection

Gianluca Bonifazi, Christopher Buratti, Michele Marchetti +5

The paper proposes a method that detects AI‑generated text by modeling how text representations change over the generation process, using trajectory‑based embeddings and contrastiv…

#ai-generated text detection#latent trajectories#contrastive learning#dynamic modeling
cs.CV2026

GlobalForge: Towards Robust AI-Generated Image Detection

Manni Cui, Ruiqi Liu, Dianyuan Zou +8

The paper introduces GlobalForge, a detection framework that shifts focus from fragile local artifacts to robust global structures to improve AI‑generated image detection under rea…

#image forensics#ai‑generated image detection#robustness to degradation#global structural reasoning
eess.AS2026

Towards Out-of-Distribution Detection in Vocoder Recognition via Latent Feature Reconstruction

Renmingyue Du, Jixun Yao, Qiuqiang Kong +1

The paper proposes a reconstruction‑based method using autoencoders to detect out‑of‑distribution vocoder samples by reconstructing WavLM acoustic features, with contrastive learni…

#out-of-distribution detection#vocoder recognition#autoencoder reconstruction#contrastive learning
cs.LG2026

Contrastive Conformal Sets

Yahya Alkhatib, Wee Peng Tay

The paper introduces a method that combines contrastive learning with conformal prediction to create learnable geometric sets that guarantee a user‑specified coverage of positive s…

#contrastive learning#conformal prediction#set prediction#uncertainty quantification
cs.LG2026

Beyond Entropy: Correctness-Aware Advantage Shaping via Contrastive Policy Optimization

Weiwen Xu, Jia Liu, Hou Pong Chan +4

The paper proposes Contrastive Policy Optimization, which leverages token‑level contrastive disagreement between reference‑guided and standard generation distributions to provide a…

#advantage shaping#contrastive learning#policy optimization#token-level correctness
cs.CV2026

Quality-Aware Robust Multi-View Clustering for Heterogeneous Observation Noise

Peihan Wu, Guanjie Cheng, Yufei Tong +2

The paper introduces QARMVC, a quality‑aware robust multi‑view clustering framework that estimates fine‑grained noise levels via reconstruction errors and uses instance‑level quali…

#multi-view clustering#robust learning#heterogeneous noise#quality-aware weighting
cs.IR2026

Personalizing Incremental Video Search with Hybrid Text and ID Embeddings

Vivek Kanojiya, Vishalaksh Aggarwal, Daeho Baek +2

The paper introduces a system for personalizing incremental video search on Apple TV by combining text‑based multilingual embeddings and ID‑based collaborative embeddings, using re…

#personalized search#incremental video search#embedding fusion#contrastive learning
cs.LG2026

The Hyperspherical Geometry of CLIP Latent Space: A Semantic Mixture Model

Zijie Yu, Gaowen Liu, Ramana Rao Kompella +2

The paper introduces a probabilistic model for CLIP embeddings using mixtures of von Mises-Fisher distributions on the unit hypersphere, improving density estimation and detection…

#contrastive learning#embedding geometry#probabilistic modeling#out-of-distribution detection
cs.CV2026

LaME: Learning to Think in Latent Space for Multimodal Embedding via Information Bottleneck

Peixi Wu, Biao Yang, Feipeng Ma +7

The paper introduces LaME, a multimodal embedding model that performs reasoning in a compact latent space using learnable tokens and an information‑bottleneck objective, eliminatin…

#multimodal embedding#latent reasoning#information bottleneck#contrastive learning
cs.CV2026

Contrastive-Augmented Flow Matching for Style-Content Disentanglement

Yusong Li, Pingchuan Ma, Ming Gui +2

The paper proposes Contrastive Augmented Flow Matching (CAtFM), a method that adds contrastive regularization to invertible flow matching to learn disentangled content and style re…

#style-content disentanglement#flow matching#contrastive learning#representation learning
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