% Key papers for Contrastive versus non-contrastive theory (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{cvpr2021_dual_16910, title = {{Dual-Stream Multiple Instance Learning Network for Whole Slide Image Classification With Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2021}, } @inproceedings{aaai2022_contrastive_1882, title = {{Contrastive Learning from Extremely Augmented Skeleton Sequences for Self-Supervised Action Recognition}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/00762-contrastive-learning-from-extremely-augmented-skeleton-sequences-for-self-supervised-action-recognition/}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_supervised_60904, title = {{Supervised Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17228}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_change_20576, title = {{Change-Aware Sampling and Contrastive Learning for Satellite Images}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/22347}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_actionlet_20340, title = {{Actionlet-Dependent Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Skeleton-Based Action Recognition}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/21914}, } @inproceedings{iclr2022_understanding_31399, title = {{Understanding Dimensional Collapse in Contrastive Self-supervised Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6792}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2022_a_18211, title = {{A Self-Supervised Descriptor for Image Copy Detection}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2022}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_on_21762, title = {{On the Effects of Self-Supervision and Contrastive Alignment in Deep Multi-View Clustering}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/21293}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_learning_21349, title = {{Learning Audio-Visual Source Localization via False Negative Aware Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/22034}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2021_shot_17892, title = {{Shot Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Scene Boundary Detection}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2021}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_from_62428, title = {{From Canonical Correlation Analysis to Self-supervised Graph Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27548}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2022_exploring_18807, title = {{Exploring the Equivalence of Siamese Self-Supervised Learning via a Unified Gradient Framework}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2022}, } @inproceedings{icml2021_whitening_40121, title = {{Whitening for Self-Supervised Representation Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2021/poster/10241}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_provable_63109, title = {{Provable Guarantees for Self-Supervised Deep Learning with Spectral Contrastive Loss}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/28345}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_halp_21125, title = {{HaLP: Hallucinating Latent Positives for Skeleton-Based Self-Supervised Learning of Actions}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/21719}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_multiple_21628, title = {{Multiple Instance Learning via Iterative Self-Paced Supervised Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/21024}, } @inproceedings{icml2021_understanding_40078, title = {{Understanding self-supervised learning dynamics without contrastive pairs}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2021/poster/10403}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_unleashing_61972, title = {{Unleashing the Power of Contrastive Self-Supervised Visual Models via Contrast-Regularized Fine-Tuning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/28723}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_pose_21897, title = {{Pose-Disentangled Contrastive Learning for Self-Supervised Facial Representation}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/21659}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_self_22157, title = {{Self-Supervised Image-to-Point Distillation via Semantically Tolerant Contrastive Loss}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/21297}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_scd_7209, title = {{SCD-Net: Spatiotemporal Clues Disentanglement Network for Self-Supervised Skeleton-Based Action Recognition}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/28409}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_self_10723, title = {{Self-supervised Trusted Contrastive Multi-view Clustering with Uncertainty Refined}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/33902}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2024_self_24788, title = {{Self-Supervised Representation Learning from Arbitrary Scenarios}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2024/poster/30255}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_structuring_35148, title = {{Structuring Representation Geometry with Rotationally Equivariant Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17925}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_towards_108119, title = {{Towards Better Code Understanding in Decoder-Only Models with Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/40471}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_regularizing_43655, title = {{Regularizing with Pseudo-Negatives for Continual Self-Supervised Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34797}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_on_45085, title = {{On the Effectiveness of Supervision in Asymmetric Non-Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33367}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_collapse_48998, title = {{Collapse-Proof Non-Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/43625}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_geometry_50528, title = {{Geometry-Aware Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Automatic Modulation Recognition}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=DGXfoyszbj}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_audiomosaic_51655, title = {{AudioMosaic: Contrastive Masked Audio Representation Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=OXJ7KqVOoT}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_contrastive_78425, title = {{Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning As Neural Manifold Packing}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=eTgXolhWCH}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_self_79182, title = {{Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning is Approximately Supervised Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=mf4V1SK0np}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_on_83664, title = {{On Discriminative Probabilistic Modeling for Self-Supervised Representation Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/28153}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_can_84064, title = {{Can a MISL Fly? Analysis and Ingredients for Mutual Information Skill Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/27762}, } @inproceedings{iclr2026_on_85925, title = {{On the Alignment Between Supervised and Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=JkitQScjuL}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2026_beyond_97381, title = {{Beyond Binary Contrast: Modeling Continuous Skeleton Action Spaces with Transitional Anchors}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Feng_Beyond_Binary_Contrast_Modeling_Continuous_Skeleton_Action_Spaces_with_Transitional_CVPR_2026_paper.html}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_self_107490, title = {{Self-Supervised Contrastive Re-Learning for Multi-Graph Multi-Label Classification}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/39842}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_auc_34659, title = {{AUC-CL: A Batchsize-Robust Framework for Self-Supervised Contrastive Representation Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18415}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_bootstrap_45795, title = {{Bootstrap AutoEncoders With Contrastive Paradigm for Self-supervised Gaze Estimation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/32657}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_discovering_47007, title = {{Discovering Global False Negatives On the Fly for Self-supervised Contrastive Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45576}, }