Wensen Ma

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › unsupervised representation learning › self-supervised representation learning
adversarial self-supervised learning
0.912025
Adv-SSL: Adversarial Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Theoretical Guarantees · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
minimax optimization
0.912025
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
0.912025
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Adv-SSL: Adversarial Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Theoretical Guarantees
abstract
Learning 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
NeurIPS4