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48 results for model supervision

Self-supervised learning excels in topic modeling by being less model-specific.

problem How self-supervised learning discovers useful representations in topic models.
method Applying self-supervised learning objectives to topic model-generated data.
result Self-supervised learning objectives can recover useful posterior information for topic models, outperforming misspecified models.

Optimal and safe semi-supervised learning estimator for high-dimensional data.

problem Improving regression parameter estimation with unlabeled data in high-dimensional settings.
method Established minimax lower bound, proposed optimal and safe semi-supervised estimators.
result Optimal semi-supervised estimator achieves the minimax lower bound.

Generative model explains self-supervised learning across various tasks.

problem Lack of theoretical understanding of self-supervised learning methods.
method Generative latent variable model for self-supervised learning.
result Improves representation learning performance and narrows the gap between generative and discriminative methods.

We combine supervised learning with unsupervised learning in deep neural networks. The proposed model is trained to simultaneously minimize the sum of supervised and unsupervised cost functions by backpropagation, avoiding the need for layer-wise pre-training. Our work builds on the Ladder network proposed by Valpola (…

2015-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

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 …

2015-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Traditionally, there are three species of classification: unsupervised, supervised, and semi-supervised. Supervised and semi-supervised classification differ by whether or not weight is given to unlabelled observations in the classification procedure. In unsupervised classification, or clustering, all observations are …

2013-07-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study compares semi-supervised learning methods for anomaly detection in hydraulic systems.

problem Challenges in anomaly detection for hydraulic systems due to scarce labeled data.
method Compared various semi-supervised learning methods including traditional models and deep neural networks.
result Customized extreme learning machine (HELM) model achieved state-of-the-art performance.

Study shows semi-supervised learning can be more robust with fewer labeled examples.

problem Learning robust predictors in semi-supervised PAC model with minimal labeled data.
method Characterizes the minimal labeled and unlabeled data required for robust learning.
result Proves nearly matching upper and lower bounds on labeled sample complexity.

We introduce a new model for building conditional generative models in a semi-supervised setting to conditionally generate data given attributes by adapting the GAN framework. The proposed semi-supervised GAN (SS-GAN) model uses a pair of stacked discriminators to learn the marginal distribution of the data, and the co…

2017-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

PLRM synthesizes labels from mismatched sources for better training sets.

problem Creating labeled training sets is a major challenge in machine learning.
method PLRM uses probabilistic modeling to synthesize labels from indirect supervision sources with different output spaces.
result PLRM outperforms baselines by 2%-9% on various tasks.

A new method for training generative models with sparse supervision.

problem Training deep generative models with sparse and varying supervision.
method Caffeinated Wake-Sleep (CWS) method, combining reweighted wake-sleep and teacher-forcing.
result The CWS method is robust to variable length supervision and performs well on various datasets.

Combines foundation models with weak supervision to improve NLP and video tasks.

problem Leveraging weak supervision with foundation models without labeled data.
method Liger, a combination of foundation model embeddings and weak supervision techniques.
result Liger outperforms existing weak supervision methods by 14.1 points on benchmark NLP and video tasks.

Supervised topic models utilize document's side information for discovering predictive low dimensional representations of documents. Existing models apply the likelihood-based estimation. In this paper, we present a general framework of max-margin supervised topic models for both continuous and categorical response var…

2009-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Given a set of possible models (e.g., Bayesian network structures) and a data sample, in the unsupervised model selection problem the task is to choose the most accurate model with respect to the domain joint probability distribution. In contrast to this, in supervised model selection it is a priori known that the chos…

2013-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

ProbKT uses probabilistic logical reasoning to train object detection models with weak supervision.

problem Training object detection models requires instance-level annotations, which are often unavailable.
method ProbKT, a framework based on probabilistic logical reasoning, uses arbitrary types of weak supervision.
result ProbKT leads to significant improvement and better generalization compared to existing baselines.

A new method for semi-supervised learning of sparse features using elastic-net.

problem Semi-supervised learning of sparse features in generalized linear models.
method Generalized Semi-Supervised Elastic-Net (s2net) framework.
result The s2net framework improves upon supervised elastic-net methods for semi-supervised learning.

Paper resolves the debate on process vs. outcome supervision in reinforcement learning.

problem Distinguishing between process and outcome supervision in reinforcement learning.
method Developed a technical tool (Change of Trajectory Measure Lemma) to show equivalence between outcome and process supervision under standard data coverage assumptions.
result Reinforcement learning through outcome supervision is statistically equivalent to process supervision, up to polynomial factors in horizon.

As machine learning models continue to increase in complexity, collecting large hand-labeled training sets has become one of the biggest roadblocks in practice. Instead, weaker forms of supervision that provide noisier but cheaper labels are often used. However, these weak supervision sources have diverse and unknown a…

2018-10-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework combines semi-supervised data programming with subset selection for improved text classification.

problem Sub-optimal performance in data programming with noisy labelling functions.
method Introduces a framework \model for semi-supervised data programming that uses joint models and subset selection.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art on seven datasets.

New method estimates model performance bounds without ground truth labels.

problem Evaluation of weakly supervised models without direct access to ground truth labels.
method Formulates model evaluation as a partial identification problem and uses Fréchet bounds for performance estimation.
result Derives accurate and computationally efficient bounds for key metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score.

This work improves adaptive conformal prediction using self-supervised learning.

problem Improving the adaptability of conformal prediction intervals.
method Train an auxiliary model with a self-supervised pretext task on top of an existing predictive model and use the self-supervised error as an additional feature to estimate nonconformity scores.
result Empirically demonstrates the benefit of additional information in improving the efficiency (width), deficit, and excess of conformal prediction intervals.

Improved ASR for English-isiZulu code-switched speech with semi-supervised training.

problem Improving ASR for code-switched speech between English and isiZulu.
method Semi-supervised training using automatic transcription of multilingual speech data.
result Semi-supervised training achieved significant WER reduction in ASR performance.

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 ↗

Efficiently builds diverse sub-model ensembles for robust self-supervised learning.

problem Challenges in diversity and efficiency of deep ensembles for self-supervised representation learning.
method Ensemble of independent sub-networks with a new loss function for diversity.
result Significantly improves prediction reliability and model calibration.

Given a set of possible models (e.g., Bayesian network structures) and a data sample, in the unsupervised model selection problem the task is to choose the most accurate model with respect to the domain joint probability distribution. In contrast to this, in supervised model selection it is a priori known that the chos…

2013-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Big models pretrain and fine-tune for semi-supervised learning on ImageNet.

problem Learning from few labeled examples with a large amount of unlabeled data.
method Unsupervised pretraining of a big ResNet model followed by supervised fine-tuning and distillation.
result 73.9% ImageNet top-1 accuracy with just 1% of labels (\le13 labeled images per class).

ETM models improve efficiency in semi-supervised logistic regression.

problem Improving efficiency in logistic regression with limited labeled data.
method Developed exponential tilt mixture (ETM) models for semi-supervised estimation.
result ETM-based estimation demonstrates improved efficiency over supervised logistic regression.

In this paper, we study statistical properties of semi-supervised learning, which is considered as an important problem in the community of machine learning. In the standard supervised learning, only the labeled data is observed. The classification and regression problems are formalized as the supervised learning. In s…

2012-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗