GenView++: Unifying Adaptive View Generation and Quality-Driven Supervision for Contrastive Representation Learning
This work addresses the problem of suboptimal contrastive learning for researchers and practitioners in computer vision and vision-language tasks, offering incremental improvements over existing methods.
The paper tackles the limitations in contrastive learning by proposing GenView++, a framework that improves positive pair construction with adaptive view generation and enhances learning with quality-driven supervision, achieving a +2.5% improvement on ImageNet linear classification and up to +12.31% higher zero-shot accuracy over CLIP.
The success of contrastive learning depends on the construction and utilization of high-quality positive pairs. However, current methods face critical limitations on two fronts: on the construction side, both handcrafted and generative augmentations often suffer from limited diversity and risk semantic corruption; on the learning side, the absence of a quality assessment mechanism leads to suboptimal supervision where all pairs are treated equally. To tackle these challenges, we propose GenView++, a unified framework that addresses both fronts by introducing two synergistic innovations. To improve pair construction, GenView++ introduces a multi-source adaptive view generation mechanism to synthesize diverse yet semantically coherent views by dynamically modulating generative parameters across image-conditioned, text-conditioned, and image-text-conditioned strategies. Second, a quality-driven contrastive learning mechanism assesses each pair's semantic alignment and diversity to dynamically reweight their training contribution, prioritizing high-quality pairs while suppressing redundant or misaligned pairs. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of GenView++ across both vision and vision-language tasks. For vision representation learning, it improves MoCov2 by +2.5% on ImageNet linear classification. For vision-language learning, it raises the average zero-shot classification accuracy by +12.31% over CLIP and +5.31% over SLIP across ten datasets, and further improves Flickr30k text retrieval R@5 by +3.2%. The code is available at https://github.com/xiaojieli0903/GenViewPlusPlus.