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most citedHow Mask Matters: Towards Theoretical Understandings of Masked Autoencoders

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cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Balance, Imbalance, and Rebalance: Understanding Robust Overfitting from a Minimax Game Perspective

Yifei Wang, Liangchen Li, Jiansheng Yang +2

Adversarial Training (AT) has become arguably the state-of-the-art algorithm for extracting robust features. However, researchers recently notice that AT suffers from severe robust…

cs.LG2023

Robust Long-Tailed Learning via Label-Aware Bounded CVaR

Hong Zhu, Runpeng Yu, Xing Tang +3

Data in the real-world classification problems are always imbalanced or long-tailed, wherein the majority classes have the most of the samples that dominate the model training. In…

cs.CV2023

On the Generalization of Multi-modal Contrastive Learning

Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang, Yisen Wang

Multi-modal contrastive learning (MMCL) has recently garnered considerable interest due to its superior performance in visual tasks, achieved by embedding multi-modal data, such as…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Rethinking Weak Supervision in Helping Contrastive Learning

Jingyi Cui, Weiran Huang, Yifei Wang +1

Contrastive learning has shown outstanding performances in both supervised and unsupervised learning, and has recently been introduced to solve weakly supervised learning problems…

cs.LG2023★ 11 cited

ContraNorm: A Contrastive Learning Perspective on Oversmoothing and Beyond

Xiaojun Guo, Yifei Wang, Tianqi Du +1

Oversmoothing is a common phenomenon in a wide range of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformers, where performance worsens as the number of layers increases. Instead of chara…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

CFA: Class-wise Calibrated Fair Adversarial Training

Zeming Wei, Yifei Wang, Yiwen Guo +1

Adversarial training has been widely acknowledged as the most effective method to improve the adversarial robustness against adversarial examples for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). S…

cs.LG2023

A Message Passing Perspective on Learning Dynamics of Contrastive Learning

Yifei Wang, Qi Zhang, Tianqi Du +3

In recent years, contrastive learning achieves impressive results on self-supervised visual representation learning, but there still lacks a rigorous understanding of its learning…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Towards a Unified Theoretical Understanding of Non-contrastive Learning via Rank Differential Mechanism

Zhijian Zhuo, Yifei Wang, Jinwen Ma +1

Recently, a variety of methods under the name of non-contrastive learning (like BYOL, SimSiam, SwAV, DINO) show that when equipped with some asymmetric architectural designs, align…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Rethinking the Effect of Data Augmentation in Adversarial Contrastive Learning

Rundong Luo, Yifei Wang, Yisen Wang

Recent works have shown that self-supervised learning can achieve remarkable robustness when integrated with adversarial training (AT). However, the robustness gap between supervis…

cs.LG2023★ 15 cited

USER: Unsupervised Structural Entropy-based Robust Graph Neural Network

Yifei Wang, Yupan Wang, Zeyu Zhang +3

Unsupervised/self-supervised graph neural networks (GNN) are vulnerable to inherent randomness in the input graph data which greatly affects the performance of the model in downstr…