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48 results for Semi-supervised inference

In this work, we address semi-supervised classification of graph data, where the categories of those unlabeled nodes are inferred from labeled nodes as well as graph structures. Recent works often solve this problem via advanced graph convolution in a conventionally supervised manner, but the performance could degrade …

2020-01-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce the SaaS Algorithm for semi-supervised learning, which uses learning speed during stochastic gradient descent in a deep neural network to measure the quality of an iterative estimate of the posterior probability of unknown labels. Training speed in supervised learning correlates strongly with the percentag…

2018-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified approach combines prediction-powered inference and variance reduction for semi-supervised optimization.

problem Scarcity of labeled data in semi-supervised optimization.
method PPI-SVRG, combining PPI and SVRG methods.
result Unified convergence bound with improved performance under label scarcity.

Bayesian algorithms improve crowdsourcing with label and instance constraints.

problem Efficiently labeling large datasets with additional human annotator information.
method Developed Bayesian algorithms for semi-supervised crowdsourced classification under label and instance constraints.
result Improved performance compared to unsupervised crowdsourcing on various datasets.

Semi-supervised learning algorithms reduce the high cost of acquiring labeled training data by using both labeled and unlabeled data during learning. Deep Convolutional Networks (DCNs) have achieved great success in supervised tasks and as such have been widely employed in the semi-supervised learning. In this paper we…

2016-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new method to estimate individual treatment effects using unlabeled data.

problem Difficult estimation of individual treatment effects due to high costs of intervention studies.
method Combines causal inference matching and semi-supervised learning label propagation.
result Demonstrates successful mitigation of data scarcity in ITE estimation.

Semi-supervised Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are developed in the context of travel mode inference with uni-dimensional smartphone trajectory data. We use data from a large-scale smartphone travel survey in Montreal, Canada. We convert GPS trajectories into fixed-sized segments with five channels (variables).…

2019-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

MEC improves efficiency and robustness in semi-supervised inference.

problem Efficient inference with limited labeled data and robust uncertainty quantification.
method Machine-Learning-Assisted Generalized Entropy Calibration (MEC) using cross-fitted, calibration-weighted PPI.
result MEC achieves semiparametric efficiency bounds under weaker assumptions and provides near-nominal coverage.

The ever-increasing size of modern data sets combined with the difficulty of obtaining label information has made semi-supervised learning one of the problems of significant practical importance in modern data analysis. We revisit the approach to semi-supervised learning with generative models and develop new models th…

2014-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Semi-supervised GANs with log-signatures improve credit card fraud detection.

problem Detecting fraud in large, complex financial transaction data streams.
method Conditional GANs with Bayesian inference and log-signatures for robust feature encoding.
result Consistent improvements over benchmarks in global and domain-specific metrics.

Deep generative models (DGMs) are effective on learning multilayered representations of complex data and performing inference of input data by exploring the generative ability. However, it is relatively insufficient to empower the discriminative ability of DGMs on making accurate predictions. This paper presents max-ma…

2016-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves treatment effect estimation using unlabeled covariates.

problem Estimating treatment effects with limited labeled data.
method Developed efficiency bounds and estimators for semi-supervised setting.
result Estimators using unlabeled covariates have lower asymptotic variance.

Prediction-powered causal inference achieves smaller asymptotic variance than traditional methods.

problem Estimating causal and structural parameters in a semi-supervised setting.
method Combining efficient influence function with debiased machine learning and semi-supervised Riesz regression.
result Asymptotic variances of estimators match the derived efficiency bound.

We propose a general semi-supervised inference framework focused on the estimation of the population mean. As usual in semi-supervised settings, there exists an unlabeled sample of covariate vectors and a labeled sample consisting of covariate vectors along with real-valued responses ("labels"). Otherwise, the formulat…

2016-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Method uses semi-supervised learning to estimate optimal treatment regimes from medical records.

problem Estimating optimal treatment regimes from electronic medical records.
method Imputation-based semi-supervised method using unlabeled data.
result Proposed method yields more efficient estimators of optimal treatment regimes.

In several domains obtaining class annotations is expensive while at the same time unlabelled data are abundant. While most semi-supervised approaches enforce restrictive assumptions on the data distribution, recent work has managed to learn semi-supervised models in a non-restrictive regime. However, so far such appro…

2017-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved quantile estimation using semi-supervised data.

problem Quantile estimation in high-dimensional settings with limited labeled data.
method Proposes semi-supervised estimators using a flexible imputation strategy and debiasing step.
result Improved estimation accuracy compared to supervised methods, robust to misspecification.

New method uses unlabeled data to estimate intercept in case-control logistic regression.

problem Estimating intercept in case-control logistic regression.
method Construct likelihood function, use iterative algorithm to find maximum likelihood estimator.
result Proposed method identifies intercept and improves estimation efficiency.

In this work we introduce a semi-supervised approach to the voice conversion problem, in which speech from a source speaker is converted into speech of a target speaker. The proposed method makes use of both parallel and non-parallel utterances from the source and target simultaneously during training. This approach ca…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of function estimation in the case where an underlying causal model can be inferred. This has implications for popular scenarios such as covariate shift, concept drift, transfer learning and semi-supervised learning. We argue that causal knowledge may facilitate some approaches for a given probl…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider causal inference in the presence of unobserved confounding. We study the case where a proxy is available for the unobserved confounding in the form of a network connecting the units. For example, the link structure of a social network carries information about its members. We show how to effectively use the…

2019-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for estimating mean in SS inference with selection bias and decaying overlap.

problem Estimating mean in SS inference with selection bias and decaying overlap.
method Double Robust Semi-Supervised (DRSS) mean estimator.
result Consistent estimation of mean with correct specification of outcome or propensity score model.

The paper resolves the paradox of using unlabeled data for treatment effect estimation.

problem Using unlabeled data to estimate propensity scores for treatment effect estimation.
method Proposes a simple procedure to reconcile the use of estimated propensity scores with the advice to use true propensity scores.
result Direct regression may be preferable to inverse-propensity weighting in many circumstances.

SCIENCE improves prediction intervals for individual causal effects.

problem Wide prediction intervals limit practical utility of causal inference.
method Surrogate-assisted conformal inference for efficient individual causal effects.
result SCIENCE produces more efficient prediction intervals for individual causal effects.

Proposes BGCN-NRWS for semi-supervised node classification with reduced overfitting.

problem Uncertainty in graph structure for semi-supervised node classification.
method Bayesian Graph Convolutional Network using Neighborhood Random Walk Sampling (BGCN-NRWS) with MCMC graph sampling and variational inference.
result Consistently competitive classification results compared to state-of-the-art.

Disease phenotyping algorithms process observational clinical data to identify patients with specific diseases. Supervised phenotyping methods require significant quantities of expert-labeled data, while unsupervised methods may learn non-disease phenotypes. To address these limitations, we propose the Semi-Supervised …

2018-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a graph learning framework for clustering and semi-supervised classification.

problem Graph-based clustering and semi-supervised classification techniques have shown impressive performance but lack explicit cluster structure.
method Uses self-expressiveness of samples for global structure and adaptive neighbor approach for local structure. Incorporates rank constraint to ensure optimal performance.
result The proposed method achieves better performance than state-of-the-art methods in clustering and semi-supervised classification.

This paper presents an infinite variational autoencoder (VAE) whose capacity adapts to suit the input data. This is achieved using a mixture model where the mixing coefficients are modeled by a Dirichlet process, allowing us to integrate over the coefficients when performing inference. Critically, this then allows us t…

2016-11-23abs ↗pdf ↗

New JSA autoencoders tackle discrete latent variable models for semi-supervised learning.

problem Handling discrete observations and latent codes in deep generative models.
method Joint-stochastic-approximation (JSA) autoencoders that directly maximize data log-likelihood and minimize KL divergence.
result JSA autoencoders achieve comparable performance to continuous latent space models in semi-supervised tasks.

Unified model combines feature and label propagation for semi-supervised classification.

problem Combining feature and label propagation for effective semi-supervised classification.
method Unified Message Passing Model (UniMP) using Graph Transformer and masked label prediction.
result Obtains new state-of-the-art results in Open Graph Benchmark (OGB).

The Adversarially Learned Mixture Model (AMM) is a generative model for unsupervised or semi-supervised data clustering. The AMM is the first adversarially optimized method to model the conditional dependence between inferred continuous and categorical latent variables. Experiments on the MNIST and SVHN datasets show t…

2018-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a data-efficient Gaussian process-based Bayesian approach to the semi-supervised learning problem on graphs. The proposed model shows extremely competitive performance when compared to the state-of-the-art graph neural networks on semi-supervised learning benchmark experiments, and outperforms the neural net…

2018-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework for semi-supervised regression with misspecified models.

problem Estimating regression coefficients in conditional mean models with unlabeled data.
method Developed an augmented inverse probability weighted (AIPW) method using regularized calibrated estimators for PS and OR nuisance models.
result The proposed estimator is consistent, asymptotically normal, and provides valid confidence intervals even with misspecified OR models and high-dimensional data.

Paper develops a distributed debiased estimator for sparse statistical inference.

problem High computational costs in debiased estimator construction for high-dimensional models.
method Develops a multi-round distributed debiased estimator using both labeled and unlabelled data.
result Unlabeled data improves statistical rate of each iteration in distributed setup.

Semi-supervised learning deals with the problem of how, if possible, to take advantage of a huge amount of unclassified data, to perform a classification in situations when, typically, there is little labeled data. Even though this is not always possible (it depends on how useful, for inferring the labels, it would be …

2018-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗