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Fisher Contrastive Learning to Mitigate Feature Suppression: A Case Study in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Diagnosis
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First announced by arXiv: 2026-10-30 · Indexed by Pub-AI: 2026-10-30 UTC
Fisher Contrastive Learning to Mitigate Feature Suppression: A Case Study in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Diagnosis
First announced by arXiv: 2026-10-30 · Original record ↗
- arxiv
- 2610.40162
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Abstract · arxiv
Self-supervised contrastive learning (SSCL) learns representations by contrasting augmented views of the same sample, but it can exhibit feature suppression, where dominant or easy-to-learn factors suppress other class-relevant signals, degrading the performance of representations, particularly in high-dimensional data with heterogeneous features. We introduce Fisher Contrastive Learning (FCL), which uses a regularized Fisher trace criterion to address feature suppression. FCL learns embeddings by maximizing the discriminative strength of Fisher discriminant functions, producing representations that preserve class-relevant information implied by the augmentation process. We prove that the representations learned by FCL could alleviate the feature suppression effects. We demonstrate FCL on simulated benchmarks designed to induce feature suppression and on a real-world biomedical application, pretraining on large white blood cell microscopy image dataset and transfer learning for diagnosis of acute promyelocytic leukemia in an external cohort. In all experiments, FCL outperforms the self-supervised baselines and yields more robust and discriminative representations.