arXiv:2507.11161stat.MLcs.LG2025-07ICML被引 1

标签错误会损害对比学习效果,降维可缓解但需平衡图连通性。

How does Labeling Error Impact Contrastive Learning? A Perspective from Data Dimensionality Reduction

  • 用降维(如SVD)减少错误标签样本,降低标签错误影响。
  • 实验显示512、1024等中等嵌入维度能提升分类准确率。
  • 建议弱增强+数据扩充+适度降维,以维持增强图连通性。

近年来,对比学习在自监督表示学习领域达到领先性能。多数理论研究依赖于标签一致性假设,但实际中因随机增强策略(如随机裁剪缩放,RRC)导致标签错误,该假设常不成立。本文从数据降维视角分析标签错误对下游分类性能的影响,揭示其显著负面作用。通过在原始数据上应用降维方法(如奇异值分解,SVD),可有效减少误报样本,并给出理论与实证评估。然而发现SVD具双刃剑效应:过度降维会削弱增强图的连通性,反而降低分类精度。基于此,提出建议:采用适度嵌入维度(如512、1024)、数据膨胀、弱增强与SVD结合,以兼顾小标签错误与大图连通性,从而提升模型性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In recent years, contrastive learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance in the territory of self-supervised representation learning. Many previous works have attempted to provide the theoretical understanding underlying the success of contrastive learning. Almost all of them rely on a default assumption, i.e., the label consistency assumption, which may not hold in practice (the probability of failure is called labeling error) due to the strength and randomness of common augmentation strategies, such as random resized crop (RRC). This paper investigates the theoretical impact of labeling error on the downstream classification performance of contrastive learning. We first reveal several significant negative impacts of labeling error on downstream classification risk. To mitigate these impacts, data dimensionality reduction method (e.g., singular value decomposition, SVD) is applied on original data to reduce false positive samples, and establish both theoretical and empirical evaluations. Moreover, it is also found that SVD acts as a double-edged sword, which may lead to the deterioration of downstream classification accuracy due to the reduced connectivity of the augmentation graph. Based on the above observations, we give the augmentation suggestion that we should use some moderate embedding dimension (such as $512, 1024$ in our experiments), data inflation, weak augmentation, and SVD to ensure large graph connectivity and small labeling error to improve model performance.

对比学习标签错误降维增强图

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