# Overfitting In Contrastive Learning?

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15863 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.15863/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 2 of its 4 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 16 Jul 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.05709/) (2020)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Overfitting describes a machine learning phenomenon where the model fits too closely to the training data, resulting in poor generalization. While this occurrence is thoroughly documented for many forms of supervised learning, it is not well examined in the context of unsupervised learning. In this work we examine the nature of overfitting in unsupervised contrastive learning. We show that overfitting can indeed occur and the mechanism behind overfitting.