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Siddharth Joshi

6 accepted papers

2025

Dataset Distillation via Knowledge Distillation: Towards Efficient Self-Supervised Pre-training of Deep Networks

ICLR 2025poster

Dataset distillation (DD) generates small synthetic datasets that can efficiently train deep networks with a limited amount of memory and compute. Despite the success of DD methods for supervised learning, DD for self-supervised pre-training of deep models has remained unaddressed. Pre-training on u…

2024

Data-Efficient Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining: Prioritizing Data Quality over Quantity

AISTATS 2024poster

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) on large-scale image-caption datasets learns representations that can achieve remarkable zero-shot generalization. However, such models require a massive amount of pre-training data. Improving the quality of the pre-training data has been shown to be mu…

2024

Investigating the Benefits of Projection Head for Representation Learning

ICLR 2024poster

An effective technique for obtaining high-quality representations is adding a projection head on top of the encoder during training, then discarding it and using the pre-projection representations. Despite its proven practical effectiveness, the reason behind the success of this technique is poorly…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

Understanding the Robustness of Multi-modal Contrastive Learning to Distribution Shift

ICLR 2024poster

Recently, multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) approaches, such as CLIP, have achieved a remarkable success in learning representations that are robust against distribution shift and generalize to new domains. Despite the empirical success, the mechanism behind learning such generalizable represen…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

Data-Efficient Contrastive Self-supervised Learning: Most Beneficial Examples for Supervised Learning Contribute the Least

ICML 2023poster

Self-supervised learning (SSL) learns high-quality representations from large pools of unlabeled training data. As datasets grow larger, it becomes crucial to identify the examples that contribute the most to learning such representations. This enables efficient SSL by reducing the volume of data re…

Cited by 24SourcePDFScholar
2023

Which Features are Learnt by Contrastive Learning? On the Role of Simplicity Bias in Class Collapse and Feature Suppression

ICML 2023oral

Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a powerful technique for representation learning, with or without label supervision. However, supervised CL is prone to collapsing representations of subclasses within a class by not capturing all their features, and unsupervised CL may suppress harder class-…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar