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Negative Sampling for Contrastive Representation Learning: A Review

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arxiv 2206.00212 v1 pith:4APF45BY submitted 2022-06-01 cs.IR

Negative Sampling for Contrastive Representation Learning: A Review

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The learn-to-compare paradigm of contrastive representation learning (CRL), which compares positive samples with negative ones for representation learning, has achieved great success in a wide range of domains, including natural language processing, computer vision, information retrieval and graph learning. While many research works focus on data augmentations, nonlinear transformations or other certain parts of CRL, the importance of negative sample selection is usually overlooked in literature. In this paper, we provide a systematic review of negative sampling (NS) techniques and discuss how they contribute to the success of CRL. As the core part of this paper, we summarize the existing NS methods into four categories with pros and cons in each genre, and further conclude with several open research questions as future directions. By generalizing and aligning the fundamental NS ideas across multiple domains, we hope this survey can accelerate cross-domain knowledge sharing and motivate future researches for better CRL.

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