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Contrastive-to-Self-Supervised: A Two-Stage Framework for Script Similarity Learning
This research introduces a novel two-stage AI framework to address the complex challenge of learning similarity metrics for historical writing systems. By decoupling reliable character supervision from uncertain script relations, it enables robust glyph recognition and meaningful script clustering without needing ground-truth evolutionary data, making it invaluable for archaeological and linguistic studies.
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Highest NDCG@10
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Glyph Recognition (Top-5)
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Separability Ratio Reduction
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The Asymmetric Supervision Challenge
Learning similarity metrics for ancient glyphs and writing systems faces a fundamental challenge: while individual characters within *invented* alphabets can be reliably labeled, the historical relationships between different *attested* scripts remain uncertain and contested. Imposing negative pairs across historical scripts risks baking in unverifiable linguistic assumptions, which this framework specifically addresses.
Our Contrastive-to-Self-Supervised Approach
This framework proposes a two-stage learning process. Stage 1 involves training a teacher encoder with supervised contrastive loss on labeled invented alphabets, establishing a robust discriminative feature space. Stage 2 extends this knowledge to unlabeled historical scripts through teacher-student distillation, where the student learns unsupervised representations, guided by the teacher but free to discover latent cross-script similarities without explicit negative pairs.
Rigorous Evaluation Protocol
Our evaluation reflects a dual objective: at the glyph level, we assess few-shot recognition via 20-way 1-shot retrieval (Top-1, Top-5 accuracy). At the script level, we induce script-to-script distances by aggregating nearest-neighbor glyph matches and evaluate the resulting rankings against curated linguistic similarity levels using Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG@10) and Spearman correlation.
Demonstrated Superiority
Experiments on diverse writing systems, including Omniglot and a newly constructed Unicode dataset, consistently show that our hybrid training achieves the best NDCG@10 for script-level ranking quality across various backbone architectures. This confirms the student not only inherits the teacher's discriminative structure but also accentuates historically grounded proximities.
Enterprise Process Flow: Two-Stage Framework
Train Teacher on Labeled Invented Scripts (SupCon)
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Initialize Student/Target from Teacher
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Adapt Student to Unlabeled Historical Scripts (BYOL Distillation)
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Refined Glyph Embedding Space
Our core innovation is a two-stage training process. First, a teacher model learns robust discriminative features from reliably labeled invented alphabets using supervised contrastive learning. Second, this teacher's knowledge is transferred to a student model for unsupervised adaptation on historical scripts via self-distillation, avoiding speculative negative pairs and allowing for discovery of latent similarities.
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Highest NDCG@10 (ResNet-50)
Our hybrid approach consistently achieved the highest Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG@10) on script-level ranking, particularly demonstrating its effectiveness on ResNet-50, outperforming purely self-supervised methods. This indicates superior capture of historical relationships.
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| Glyph-Level Retrieval (Top-1/Top-5) |
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| Generality to Ancient Scripts |
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Our method systematically outperforms purely self-supervised baselines in capturing historical script relationships, primarily due to its teacher-initialized self-distillation which injects a robust semantic prior without imposing unverifiable negative pairs.
Enhanced Cross-Script Coherence: The Separability Ratio
The separability ratio, R, quantifies how much closer linguistically related scripts are embedded compared to unrelated ones. Our student model achieved a 35% reduction in R (from 0.323 to 0.210) compared to the teacher, demonstrating that the unsupervised adaptation in Stage 2 does not merely compress the embedding space, but selectively accentuates historically grounded proximities. This results in a geometrically coherent organization that better reflects the linguistic structure of writing systems like CJK, Greek, and Latin.
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