Official Papers
Emily Denton, Sam Gross, Rob Fergus. Semi-Supervised Learning with Context-Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks. Arxiv 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06430
Ishan Misra, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Martial Hebert. Shuffle and Learn: Unsupervised Learning using Temporal Order Verification. In ECCV 2016. https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08561
More reading
Alec Radford, Luke Metz, Soumith Chintala. Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks. In ICLR, 2016. https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06434
Carl Doersch, Abhinav Gupta, Alexei A. Efros. Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning by Context Prediction. In ICCV 2015. https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05192
G. E. Hinton and R. R. Salakhutdinov. Reducing the Dimensionality of Data with Neural Networks. In Science, 2006. https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/science.pdf
Plus some extra bonus papers (for bonus reading only, not to be presented):
Even more reading?! ("Traditional" ML)
Tim Salimans, Ian Goodfellow, Wojciech Zaremba, Vicki Cheung, Alec Radford, Xi Chen. Improved Techniques for Training GANs. In ArXiv, 2016. https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03498
Vincent, Larochelle, Lajoie, Bengio, Manzagol. Stacked Denoising Autoencoders: Learning Useful Representations in a Deep Network with a Local Denoising Criterion. In JMLR, 2010. http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume11/vincent10a/vincent10a.pdf
Jeff Donahue, Philipp Krähenbühl, Trevor Darrell. Adversarial Feature Learning. ICLR, 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09782
Even more reading?! (Large-scale "self-supervised")
Andrew Owens, Jiajun Wu, Josh McDermott, William Freeman, Antonio Torralba. Ambient Sound Provides Supervision for Visual Learning. In ECCV, 2016. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.07017.pdf
Deepak Pathak, Ross Girshick, Piotr Dollár, Trevor Darrell, Bharath Hariharan. Learning Features by Watching Objects Move. Submitted to CVPR, 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.06370
Richard Zhang, Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros. Split-Brain Autoencoders: Unsupervised Learning by Cross-Channel Prediction. Submitted to CVPR, 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09842