Challenge: Various contrastive learning methods have been developed and lead to state-of-the-art performance in many computer vision tasks.
Approach: They propose a method to construct efficient contrastive samples using text summarization to gain better representations of text classification tasks with limited annotations.
Outcome: The proposed framework gains better representations on text classification tasks with limited annotations and is compared with existing methods on real-world text classification datasets.

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