VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Wensen Ma
dblp:295/5166
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Representation and self-supervised learning · 67% Optimization for machine learning · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › unsupervised representation learning › self-supervised representation learning
adversarial self-supervised learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Adv-SSL: Adversarial Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Theoretical Guarantees · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
minimax optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Adv-SSL: Adversarial Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Theoretical Guarantees · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › unsupervised representation learning
self-supervised representation learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Adv-SSL: Adversarial Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Theoretical Guarantees · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
minimax optimization · 0.9covariance alignment · 0.9adversarial training · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Adv-SSL: Adversarial Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Theoretical GuaranteesabstractLearning transferable data representations from abundant unlabeled data remains a central challenge in machine learning. Although numerous self-supervised learning methods have been proposed to address this challenge, a significant class of these approaches aligns the covariance or correlation matrix with the identity matrix. Despite impressive performance across various downstream tasks, these methods often suffer from biased sample risk, leading to substantial optimization shifts in mini-batch settings and complicating theoretical analysis. In this paper, we introduce a novel \underline{\bf Adv}ersarial \underline{\bf S}elf-\underline{\bf S}upervised Representation \underline{\bf L}earning (Adv-SSL) for unbiased transfer learning with no additional cost compared to its biased counterparts. Our approach not only outperforms the existing methods across multiple benchmark datasets but is also supported by comprehensive end-to-end theoretical guarantees. Our analysis reveals that the minimax optimization in Adv-SSL encourages representations to form well-separated clusters in the embedding space, provided there is sufficient upstream unlabeled data. As a result, our method achieves strong classification performance even with limited downstream labels, shedding new light on few-shot learning. Chenguang Duan, Yuling Jiao, Huazhen Lin, Wensen Ma, Jerry Zhijian Yang |
NeurIPS | 4 |