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This paper considers a semi-supervised learning framework for weakly labeled polyphonic sound event detection problems for the DCASE 2019 challenge's task4 by combining both the tri-training and adversarial learning. The goal of the task4 is to detect onsets and offsets of multiple sound events in a single audio clip. …
Paper tackles drowsy driving by learning from weakly labeled car acceleration data.
problem Lack of labeled data for estimating driver drowsiness.
method Weakly supervised learning, scalable stochastic optimization.
result Algorithm learns from weakly labeled data, outperforming baseline methods.
TrustNet robustly learns noise patterns from trusted data to improve weakly-supervised classification.
problem Robustness to label noise in weakly-supervised learning.
method TrustNet learns noise patterns from trusted data, then trains a robust classifier using these patterns.
result TrustNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods in robustness to various noise patterns.
Improves label propagation for weakly supervised learning.
problem Reducing the need for labeled data in machine learning.
method Label Propagation with Weak Supervision (LPA) analysis.
result Demonstrated improvements over existing methods on weakly supervised classification tasks.
RAN model recognizes multiple activities from unlabeled sensor data.
problem Handling weakly labeled multi-activity data from wearable sensors.
method Recurrent Attention Networks (RAN) for sequential multi-activity recognition and localization.
result RAN model can infer multiple activities and determine activity locations from unlabeled data.
Weakly supervised learning aims at coping with scarce labeled data. Previous weakly supervised studies typically assume that there is only one kind of weak supervision in data. In many applications, however, raw data usually contains more than one kind of weak supervision at the same time. For example, in user experien…
Weakly supervised data are widespread and have attracted much attention. However, since label quality is often difficult to guarantee, sometimes the use of weakly supervised data will lead to unsatisfactory performance, i.e., performance degradation or poor performance gains. Moreover, it is usually not feasible to man…
Subset selection improves weak supervision performance.
problem Optimizing the use of weakly-labeled data.
method Combining pretrained data representations with the cut statistic for subset selection.
result Subset selection improves weak supervision performance by up to 19%.
Consider a classification problem where we do not have access to labels for individual training examples, but only have average labels over subpopulations. We give practical examples of this setup and show how such a classification task can usefully be analyzed as a weakly supervised clustering problem. We propose thre…
We describe a novel weakly labeled Audio Event Classification approach based on a self-supervised attention model. The weakly labeled framework is used to eliminate the need for expensive data labeling procedure and self-supervised attention is deployed to help a model distinguish between relevant and irrelevant parts …
Efficient Path Prediction for Semi-Supervised and Weakly Supervised Hierarchical Text Classificationcs.LG
Hierarchical text classification has many real-world applications. However, labeling a large number of documents is costly. In practice, we can use semi-supervised learning or weakly supervised learning (e.g., dataless classification) to reduce the labeling cost. In this paper, we propose a path cost-sensitive learning…
A variety of machine learning applications expect to achieve rapid learning from a limited number of labeled data. However, the success of most current models is the result of heavy training on big data. Meta-learning addresses this problem by extracting common knowledge across different tasks that can be quickly adapt…
Paper proposes MTL for weakly labelled SED, improving performance with 2-step attention.
problem Weakly labelled sound event detection.
method Multi-Task Learning framework with 2-step Attention Pooling.
result Improved SED performance with 22.3%, 12.8%, 5.9% gains at 0, 10, 20 dB SNR.
Proposes a method to create predictive sets from partially labeled data.
problem Efficiently using weakly supervised data for structured prediction tasks.
method Introduces probe functions and a false discovery proportion-type loss.
result Validates the effectiveness of the proposed predictive set construction.
We consider the task of training classifiers without labels. We propose a weakly supervised method---adversarial label learning---that trains classifiers to perform well against an adversary that chooses labels for training data. The weak supervision constrains what labels the adversary can choose. The method therefore…
Paper presents an audiovisual model to recognize sounds from weakly labeled video data.
problem Sound recognition from weakly labeled video data.
method Audiovisual fusion model with attention mechanism.
result The model achieves a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 46.16 on AudioSet, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
Proposes a constrained labeling method for weakly supervised learning.
problem Combining weak supervision signals while navigating misleading correlations.
method Randomized constrained labeling within a defined space.
result Randomized constrained labeling converges after few iterations and outperforms other methods.
Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy achieved by top weakly supervised algorithms is still significantly lower than …
Data-Efficient Weakly Supervised Learning for Low-Resource Audio Event Detection Using Deep Learningcs.SD
We propose a method to perform audio event detection under the common constraint that only limited training data are available. In training a deep learning system to perform audio event detection, two practical problems arise. Firstly, most datasets are "weakly labelled" having only a list of events present in each rec…
Study assesses weakly-supervised methods for rare outcomes in medical records.
problem Identifying patients with specific medical conditions using electronic health records.
method Compared three methods (PheNorm, MAP, and sureLDA) in simulations with varying outcomes and silver labels.
result No single method consistently outperformed others, but sureLDA often did well.
Paper proposes an algorithm to recover full supervision from weakly labeled data.
problem Machine learning requires expensive data annotation, motivating the use of weak supervision.
method The paper introduces a disambiguation principle and an empirical disambiguation algorithm for partial labelling.
result The algorithm achieves exponential convergence rates under learnability assumptions.
A new method for weakly supervised learning that improves model accuracy.
problem Training machine learning models with precise labels is expensive; weak supervision provides a low-cost alternative.
method Data consistent weak supervision algorithm that searches over classifiers to find plausible labelings, considering features of the training data and estimating labels for low/no coverage data.
result Empirically, the method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art weak supervision methods on text and image classification tasks.
New method uses weak labels to create valid confidence sets for predictions.
problem Lack of labeled data in machine learning models.
method Developed a conformal prediction framework to provide valid predictive confidence sets using weakly labeled data.
result New coverage definition allows for tighter and more informative (but valid) confidence sets.
Paper develops proper, lower-bounded losses for weakly supervised classification.
problem Weakly supervised classification with corrupted labels.
method Representation theorem for proper losses, derived condition for lower-boundedness, generalized logit squeezing.
result Proper and lower-bounded losses for weak-label learning.
Paper improves conformal prediction for imprecise training data.
problem Applying conformal prediction to partially labeled data.
method Generalizes conformal prediction for set-valued training and calibration data.
result Validates the proposed method and shows it outperforms baselines.
Few-shot brain segmentation from weakly labeled data with deep heteroscedastic multi-task networkscs.LG
In applications of supervised learning applied to medical image segmentation, the need for large amounts of labeled data typically goes unquestioned. In particular, in the case of brain anatomy segmentation, hundreds or thousands of weakly-labeled volumes are often used as training data. In this paper, we first observe…
To alleviate the burden of gathering detailed expert annotations when training deep neural networks, we propose a weakly supervised learning approach to recognize metastases in microscopic images of breast lymph nodes. We describe an alternative training loss which clusters weakly labeled bags in latent space to inform…
Weakly Supervised-Based Oversampling for High Imbalance and High Dimensionality Data Classificationcs.LG
This paper tackles imbalanced classification with weakly supervised oversampling.
problem Imbalanced classification in high-dimensional datasets.
method Weakly supervised SMOTE, cost-sensitive NCA, bootstrap ensemble.
result Improved classification performance on synthetic and real-world datasets.
The recent state-of-the-art deep learning methods have significantly improved brain tumor segmentation. However, fully supervised training requires a large amount of manually labeled masks, which is highly time-consuming and needs domain expertise. Weakly supervised learning with scribbles provides a good trade-off bet…
Unified approach for multicalibration in weakly supervised learning.
problem Existing multicalibration methods require clean input-label pairs, which are unavailable in weakly supervised learning.
method Developed estimators and post-hoc correction methods for multicalibration under weak supervision.
result Unified framework for estimating and correcting multicalibration under weak supervision with finite-sample guarantees.
UREs lead to overfitting in complex models, especially in complementary label learning.
problem Overfitting in weakly supervised learning with complementary labels.
method Proposed a surrogate complementary loss (SCL) framework to reduce gradient variance.
result SCL mitigates overfitting and improves URE-based methods.
Paper proposes Pcomp classification for binary classification with pairwise confidence comparisons.
problem Lack of pointwise labels due to privacy, confidentiality, or security reasons.
method Developed Pcomp classification, derived an unbiased risk estimator (URE), and improved it using correction functions and consistency regularization.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of Pcomp classification methods.
In conventional domain adaptation, a critical assumption is that there exists a fully labeled domain (source) that contains the same label space as another unlabeled or scarcely labeled domain (target). However, in the real world, there often exist application scenarios in which both domains are partially labeled and n…
Supervised contrastive learning from weakly-labeled audio segments for musical version matchingcs.SD
Paper tackles musical version matching at segment level using contrastive learning from weakly-labeled data.
problem Match musical versions at the segment level, not just tracks, with weak annotations.
method Proposes contrastive learning from weakly-labeled audio segments, using a new loss variant.
result Breakthrough performance in segment-level evaluation, outperforming state-of-the-art.
We present a novel approach to train pixel resolution segmentation models on whole slide images in a weakly supervised setup. The model is trained to classify patches extracted from slides. This leads the training to be made under noisy labeled data. We solve the problem with two complementary strategies. First, the pa…
We propose a simple but efficient method termed Guided Learning for weakly-labeled semi-supervised sound event detection (SED). There are two sub-targets implied in weakly-labeled SED: audio tagging and boundary detection. Instead of designing a single model by considering a trade-off between the two sub-targets, we de…
Paper tackles weakly supervised learning from similarity-confidence data.
problem Learning binary classifier from unlabeled data pairs with confidence of similarity.
method Proposes an unbiased estimator of classification risk from Sconf data and risk correction scheme.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of proposed methods through experiments.
Study characterizes and mitigates imbalances in neurosymbolic learning.
problem Characterizing and mitigating class-specific risks in neural classifiers.
method Theoretical analysis and practical techniques including estimating marginal gold labels and mitigating imbalances at training and testing time.
result Learning imbalances can be greatly impacted by the symbolic component σ, unlike in supervised and weakly supervised learning.
JoCoR improves deep learning with noisy labels by reducing network diversity.
problem Learning with noisy labels in deep learning.
method JoCoR uses two networks to make predictions, calculates a joint loss with Co-Regularization, and updates both networks simultaneously.
result JoCoR outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in learning with noisy labels.
The feasibility of existing data stream algorithms is often hindered by the weakly supervised condition of data streams. A self-evolving deep neural network, namely Parsimonious Network (ParsNet), is proposed as a solution to various weakly-supervised data stream problems. A self-labelling strategy with hedge (SLASH) i…
The scarcity of data annotated at the desired level of granularity is a recurring issue in many applications. Significant amounts of effort have been devoted to developing weakly supervised methods tailored to each individual setting, which are often carefully designed to take advantage of the particular properties of …
Paper proposes a new PLL framework with a progressive identification algorithm.
problem Weakly supervised learning with partial labels.
method Flexible model and optimization algorithm for PLL, progressive identification algorithm.
result Established an estimation error bound and set new state of the art.
New model predicts multiple outputs with missing labels.
problem Missing group labels in multi-output regression.
method Weakly-supervised multi-output model using correlated Gaussian processes.
result Model excels in multi-output settings with missing labels.
We prove that the empirical risk of most well-known loss functions factors into a linear term aggregating all labels with a term that is label free, and can further be expressed by sums of the loss. This holds true even for non-smooth, non-convex losses and in any RKHS. The first term is a (kernel) mean operator --the …
Method estimates noise transition matrix from noisy labels without relying on unreliable class-posterior estimation.
problem Estimating noise transition matrix from noisy data.
method Total variation regularization to encourage distinguishable predicted probabilities.
result Consistent estimator of the noise transition matrix under mild assumptions.
WEST uses EHRs and expert cases to improve rare disease phenotyping.
problem Limited labeled data for rare diseases.
method Weakly supervised transformer model trained on probabilistic silver-standard labels.
result WEST outperforms existing methods in phenotype classification and subphenotyping.
Using binary silver labels in electronic health records-based computable phenotyping algorithmsstat.ME
Binary PheNorm extends phenotype labeling for EHRs using binary silver labels.
problem Lack of gold-standard phenotype labels in EHR studies.
method Proposes Binary PheNorm, an extension that uses binary silver labels directly in phenotype scoring.
result Binary PheNorm achieved strong discrimination using binary labels alone and improved performance when combined with count labels.