contrastive
adjective
con·tras·tive
kən-ˈtra-stiv 
ˈkän-ˌtra-
ˈkän-ˌtra-
: forming or consisting of a contrast
contrastively
adverb
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Other contrastive learning frameworks like SimCLR and MoCo similarly enable robust feature learning at scale without annotations, dramatically reducing dependency on costly human labeling.
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Rahul Gudise, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
This can be made to work using some of the latest developments in non-contrastive SSL methods, particularly a method that my colleagues and I recently proposed called VICReg (Variance, Invariance, Covariance Regularization).
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2022
The two women, mostly onstage together, occupy the zones separately, their contrastive presences balanced: Ms. Beiser hot and more sedentary, Ms. Whelan cool but mobile.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
While climbing a Martian mountain, NASA's Curiosity rover has come across a crater capable of creating contrastive chemical environments.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2016
The group with contrastive analysis not only discovered something about English.
—The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
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Rahul Gudise, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
This can be made to work using some of the latest developments in non-contrastive SSL methods, particularly a method that my colleagues and I recently proposed called VICReg (Variance, Invariance, Covariance Regularization).
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2022
The two women, mostly onstage together, occupy the zones separately, their contrastive presences balanced: Ms. Beiser hot and more sedentary, Ms. Whelan cool but mobile.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
While climbing a Martian mountain, NASA's Curiosity rover has come across a crater capable of creating contrastive chemical environments.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2016
The group with contrastive analysis not only discovered something about English.
—The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
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“Contrastive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contrastive. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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