Breaking the Batch Barrier (B3) of Contrastive Learning via Smart Batch Mining

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Authors
Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Rui Meng, Ye Liu, Karthikeyan K, Mingyi Su, Ping Nie, Semih Yavuz, Yingbo Zhou, Wenhu Chen, Bhuwan Dhingra
Venue
NeurIPS 2025
Track
Spotlight

TL;DR

Contrastive learning (CL) is a prevalent technique for training embedding models, which pulls semantically similar examples (positives) closer in the representation space while pushing dissimilar ones…

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