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48 results for Unsupervised Data

Unsupervised classification methods learn a discriminative classifier from unlabeled data, which has been proven to be an effective way of simultaneously clustering the data and training a classifier from the data. Various unsupervised classification methods obtain appealing results by the classifiers learned in an uns…

2012-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Study proposes using auxiliary classification to improve unsupervised anomaly detection.

problem Challenging anomaly detection in high-dimensional data.
method Use of an auxiliary classification task to extract features from unlabelled data by supervised learning.
result Our feature learning approach yields best anomaly detection performance.

A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning works aim to do so by developing proxy objectives based on reconstruction, disent…

2018-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a novel unsupervised feature selection method using K-means and ADMM.

problem Finding a subset of features for high-dimensional unsupervised learning problems.
method Developed K-means Derived Unsupervised Feature Selection (K-means UFS) using ADMM to solve NP-hard optimization.
result K-means UFS outperforms baselines in feature selection for clustering.

Paper summarizes unsupervised learning challenges for disentangled representations.

problem Unsupervised learning of disentangled representations without inductive biases.
method Theoretical and practical analysis of existing approaches.
result Unsupervised disentanglement is fundamentally impossible without inductive biases.

Paper presents a workflow for reliable unsupervised learning in science.

problem Lack of standardization in unsupervised learning workflows for reproducible scientific discoveries.
method Structured workflow including data preparation, modeling, validation, and communication.
result Illustrates the importance of validation in unsupervised learning.

A new method for feature selection in high-dimensional data.

problem Dealing with noise and high-dimensional data in unsupervised feature selection.
method Sparse PCA via l2,pl_{2,p}-norm regularization, combined with an efficient optimization algorithm.
result The proposed method effectively selects features from real-world data sets.

Proposes a new model for unsupervised clustering with latent variables.

problem The challenge of unsupervised clustering in machine learning.
method Clustered Generator Model with continuous and discrete latent variables.
result Achieves competitive unsupervised clustering accuracy and disentangled latent representations.

A major goal of unsupervised learning is to discover data representations that are useful for subsequent tasks, without access to supervised labels during training. Typically, this involves minimizing a surrogate objective, such as the negative log likelihood of a generative model, with the hope that representations us…

2018-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proves the theoretical advantage of unsupervised pretraining for machine learning tasks.

problem Understanding why unsupervised pretraining helps in machine learning tasks.
method A generic framework using Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) for unsupervised pretraining and Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) for downstream tasks.
result Proves an excess risk of ildeO(CΦ/m+CΨ/n) ilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{\mathcal{C}_Φ/m} + \sqrt{\mathcal{C}_Ψ/n}) for downstream tasks under mild conditions.

Unsupervised learning is a discipline of machine learning which aims at discovering patterns in big data sets or classifying the data into several categories without being trained explicitly. We show that unsupervised learning techniques can be readily used to identify phases and phases transitions of many body systems…

2016-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

This research shows unsupervised GANs can perform object segmentation without labels.

problem Performing object segmentation without pixel or image-level labels.
method Used large-scale unsupervised GAN models to differentiate foreground from background.
result Demonstrated high-quality saliency masks and new state-of-the-art performance.

Improves deep learning with less labeled data using unsupervised projection.

problem Lack of labeled data for deep learning models.
method Modified unsupervised discriminant projection as a regularization term for semi-supervised learning.
result Proposes an algorithm that enhances classification performance with minimal labeled data.

A new deep learning framework selects representative samples for unsupervised learning.

problem Selecting representative samples for unsupervised learning in non-linear data.
method DUAL framework using an encoder-decoder architecture to learn nonlinear embeddings and a selection block to choose representative samples.
result DUAL outperforms state-of-the-art methods in selecting representative samples for unsupervised learning.

New method embeds phylogenetic trees for clustering, recovering evolutionary relationships.

problem Lack of a meaningful way to embed phylogenetic trees into a vector space.
method Split-weight embedding to fit clustering algorithms to phylogenetic trees.
result Split-weight embedding recovers meaningful evolutionary relationships in simulated and real data.

We introduce a framework to leverage knowledge acquired from a repository of (heterogeneous) supervised datasets to new unsupervised datasets. Our perspective avoids the subjectivity inherent in unsupervised learning by reducing it to supervised learning, and provides a principled way to evaluate unsupervised algorithm…

2017-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper critically examines unsupervised disentangled representation learning, revealing challenges and limitations.

problem The difficulty of unsupervised learning of disentangled representations and the challenges in evaluation metrics.
method Theoretical analysis and a large-scale experimental study covering 8 datasets and 14000 models.
result Well-disentangled models cannot be identified without supervision, and different evaluation metrics disagree on what constitutes disentanglement.

Learning by children and animals occurs effortlessly and largely without obvious supervision. Successes in automating supervised learning have not translated to the more ambiguous realm of unsupervised learning where goals and labels are not provided. Barlow (1961) suggested that the signal that brains leverage for uns…

2017-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines the training process of an unsupervised learning model for detecting gravitational-wave transient noise.

problem Transient noise in gravitational-wave detector data causes instability and signal overlap.
method Unsupervised deep learning with variational autoencoder and invariant information clustering applied to the Gravity Spy dataset.
result Training process of the unsupervised learning architecture is examined and reported.

A new framework uses information theory to detect anomalies in images without labeled data.

problem Detect anomalies in images without labeled data.
method A direct objective function using information theory to maximize the distance between normal and anomalous data.
result The proposed framework significantly outperforms state-of-the-arts on multiple benchmark datasets.

This work proposes unsupervised learning by predicting random distances in neural networks.

problem Lack of labelled data in unsupervised learning tasks.
method Train neural networks to predict random distances in a randomly projected space, optimizing for genuine class structures.
result Learned representations outperform state-of-the-art methods in anomaly detection and clustering.

RAEUFS selects features from data without labels, improving robustness to outliers.

problem Feature selection in high-dimensional data, especially in the presence of outliers.
method RAEUFS uses a deep autoencoder to learn nonlinear feature representations, improving robustness to outliers.
result RAEUFS outperforms state-of-the-art UFS methods in both clean and outlier-contaminated data settings.

Score calibration enables automatic speaker recognizers to make cost-effective accept / reject decisions. Traditional calibration requires supervised data, which is an expensive resource. We propose a 2-component GMM for unsupervised calibration and demonstrate good performance relative to a supervised baseline on NIST…

2013-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

SUOD accelerates unsupervised outlier detection for large datasets.

problem Scalability issues in unsupervised outlier detection for high-dimensional datasets.
method Three-module acceleration framework: Random Projection, Balanced Parallel Scheduling, Pseudo-supervised Approximation.
result SUOD significantly improves efficiency and scalability in outlier detection.

Is all of machine learning supervised to some degree? The field of machine learning has traditionally been categorized pedagogically into supervised vs unsupervised learningsupervised~vs~unsupervised~learning; where supervised learning has typically referred to learning from labeled data, while unsupervised learning has typically referred to learning …

2019-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method reconstructs past foehn occurrences using unsupervised and supervised learning.

problem Reconstructing past foehn occurrences due to lack of direct measurement.
method Combining unsupervised and supervised learning methods to infer foehn occurrences from reanalysis data.
result Accurate hourly reconstructions of past foehn occurrences for 83 years.

A multi-step framework tackles online unsupervised domain adaptation with novel mean-target subspace computation.

problem Online unsupervised domain adaptation with unlabelled target data arriving sequentially.
method Multi-step framework with a novel mean-target subspace computation and temporal coherency consideration.
result Improved performance over previous approaches on four datasets.