Paper introduces methods for more reliable probabilistic predictions with confidence intervals.
problem Inaccurate labeling of datasets due to unreliable probabilistic predictions from weak labeling functions.
method Proposes a methodology to provide confidence intervals for label probabilities using uncertainty sets of distributions.
result Improves reliability of probabilistic predictions and provides confidence intervals for label probabilities.
Improves understanding of PWS by calculating influence of sources and data.
problem Understanding the influence of each component in PWS.
method Proposes source-aware Influence Function (IF) to decompose and calculate influence.
result Improves end model's generalization performance and identifies mislabeling.
Expands weak supervision by allowing partial labels from multiple noisy sources.
problem Creating models without labeled data using heuristic labelers.
method Probabilistic generative model estimating partial label accuracies.
result Improved model accuracy on various tasks (8.6% on text, comparable to zero-shot methods on images).
FABLE incorporates instance features into PWS label models for improved performance.
problem Lack of instance features in existing label models limits their performance.
method FABLE uses a mixture of Bayesian label models and a Gaussian Process classifier to incorporate instance features.
result FABLE achieves the highest averaged performance across nine baselines on benchmark 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.
Generative models enhance weak supervision for better image classification.
problem Lack of labeled data in supervised learning.
method Fusion of generative adversarial networks and weak supervision.
result Model improves multiclass image classification performance.
We study the problem of training sequential generative models for capturing coordinated multi-agent trajectory behavior, such as offensive basketball gameplay. When modeling such settings, it is often beneficial to design hierarchical models that can capture long-term coordination using intermediate variables. Furtherm…
Nemo improves WS learning pipeline by 20%.
problem Creating effective labeling heuristics for weak supervision.
method Interactive procedure for designing heuristics, strategic data selection, contextualization of heuristics.
result Improves WS learning pipeline by 20%.
Programmatic Motion Concepts learn human actions from paired videos.
problem Learning motion concepts from paired video and action sequences.
method Semi-supervised learning architecture for hierarchical motion representation.
result Outperforms established baselines, especially in small data settings.
Obtaining enough labeled data to robustly train complex discriminative models is a major bottleneck in the machine learning pipeline. A popular solution is combining multiple sources of weak supervision using generative models. The structure of these models affects training label quality, but is difficult to learn with…
We study the problem of programmatic reinforcement learning, in which policies are represented as short programs in a symbolic language. Programmatic policies can be more interpretable, generalizable, and amenable to formal verification than neural policies; however, designing rigorous learning approaches for such poli…
We present a reinforcement learning framework, called Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning (PIRL), that is designed to generate interpretable and verifiable agent policies. Unlike the popular Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) paradigm, which represents policies by neural networks, PIRL represents polic…
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%.
Large labeled training sets are the critical building blocks of supervised learning methods and are key enablers of deep learning techniques. For some applications, creating labeled training sets is the most time-consuming and expensive part of applying machine learning. We therefore propose a paradigm for the programm…
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.
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.
Unified framework for policy learning using weak supervision.
problem High-quality supervision is often infeasible or expensive in practice.
method Treat weak supervision as imperfect peer information and evaluate policies based on correlated agreement.
result Substantial performance improvements, especially in complex or noisy environments.
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.
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.
Mitigates bias in weakly supervised datasets.
problem Bias in weakly supervised datasets.
method Proposes a counterfactual fairness-based technique to mitigate bias.
result Improves accuracy by up to 32% while reducing demographic parity gap by 82.5%.
Active WeaSuL uses active learning to improve weak supervision for better model performance.
problem Limited labelled data in machine learning.
method Combines active learning with weak supervision to improve probabilistic labels.
result Active WeaSuL outperforms weak supervision and active learning with limited labelled data.
ASTRA uses unlabeled data and weak rules to train deep models effectively.
problem Learning with weak supervision rules is challenging due to their heuristic and noisy nature.
method ASTRA framework that considers contextualized representations and pseudo-labels for unlabeled data, and a rule attention network to aggregate labels.
result Significant improvements over state-of-the-art baselines on text classification benchmarks.
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.
Weak supervision challenges black-box models, suggesting fusion of modeling cultures.
problem Challenges of strong supervision in achieving accurate predictions.
method Integrating data modeling into algorithmic modeling for weak supervision.
result Integration of data modeling culture improves model stability and accuracy.
RAVEN improves weak-to-strong generalization under distribution shifts.
problem Weak models fail to supervise strong models effectively under distribution shifts.
method RAVEN dynamically learns optimal combinations of weak models and strong model parameters.
result RAVEN outperforms existing methods by over 30% on out-of-distribution tasks.
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.
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 …
New model shows weak teachers can help strong students learn even with imperfect labels.
problem Improving strong student's performance with weak teacher's imperfect pseudolabels.
method Stylized overparameterized spiked covariance model with Gaussian covariates, proving two phases of generalization.
result Provable successful and random guessing phases of strong student's generalization.
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.
DPBD simplifies labeling functions through interactive demonstrations.
problem Difficulty in writing labeling functions for large-scale labeled training data.
method Data Programming by Demonstration (DPBD) framework using interactive demonstrations.
result Ruler system generates labeling rules more easily and with higher user satisfaction.
WRENCH benchmarks weak supervision datasets for machine learning.
problem Lack of standardized evaluation for weak supervision datasets.
method Developed a comprehensive benchmark platform WRENCH.
result Demonstrated the efficacy of WRENCH as a benchmark platform.
Learning disentangled representations that correspond to factors of variation in real-world data is critical to interpretable and human-controllable machine learning. Recently, concerns about the viability of learning disentangled representations in a purely unsupervised manner has spurred a shift toward the incorporat…
The study explores the strengths and weaknesses of models that generalize from weak to strong supervision.
problem Understanding the limitations and capabilities of models that generalize from weak to strong supervision.
method Theoretical analysis and experimental validation in both classification and regression settings.
result Theoretical bounds reveal the importance of strong generalization and calibration of the weak model and a careful balance in the training process.
Weak supervision is a popular method for building machine learning models without relying on ground truth annotations. Instead, it generates probabilistic training labels by estimating the accuracies of multiple noisy labeling sources (e.g., heuristics, crowd workers). Existing approaches use latent variable estimation…
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.
Since manually labeling training data is slow and expensive, recent industrial and scientific research efforts have turned to weaker or noisier forms of supervision sources. However, existing weak supervision approaches fail to model multi-resolution sources for sequential data, like video, that can assign labels to in…
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…
CoDATS improves DA on time series data with weak supervision.
problem Improving domain adaptation for time series data with limited labeled data.
method CoDATS model for Time Series data, DA-WS method with weak supervision.
result Significant accuracy improvements over state-of-the-art methods.
End-to-end approach for weak supervision improves downstream model performance.
problem Data-labeling bottleneck in machine learning applications.
method Directly learning the downstream model by maximizing its agreement with probabilistic labels generated from weak supervision sources.
result Improved performance over prior work in terms of downstream model performance and robustness.
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.
Interactive weak supervision learns useful heuristics from user feedback.
problem Creating useful heuristics for large labeled datasets is tedious and subjective.
method Develops an interactive framework for learning heuristics from user feedback.
result Only a few feedback iterations are needed to train models without ground truth labels.
Pairwise "same-cluster" queries are one of the most widely used forms of supervision in semi-supervised clustering. However, it is impractical to ask human oracles to answer every query correctly. In this paper, we study the influence of allowing "not-sure" answers from a weak oracle and propose an effective algorithm …
The scalability of the labeling process and the attainable quality of labels have become limiting factors for many applications of machine learning. The programmatic creation of labeled datasets via the synthesis of noisy heuristics provides a promising avenue to address this problem. We propose to improve modeling of …
Paper presents a model for identifying informative COVID-19 tweets.
problem Identifying informative COVID-19 tweets on Twitter.
method Leveraged transformers (RoBERTa, XLNet, BERTweet) trained in Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) setting.
result Achieved F1 score of 0.9011 on test set, ranking 7th on leaderboard.
WeLa-VAE learns interpretable disentangled representations with weak supervision.
problem Learning disentangled representations without strong supervision.
method Variational inference framework with shared latent variables and modified variational lower bound.
result WeLa-VAE learns alternative disentangled representations (polar) from weak labels (distance and angle) without refined supervision.
Adapting neural networks to guide program optimization for better classifiers.
problem Learning differentiable programs with complex architectures.
method Formulating program optimization as a graph search problem, using neural networks as heuristic relaxations.
result Trained neural networks can guide combinatorial search for programmatic classifiers, improving accuracy and interpretability.
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…
Labeling training data is a key bottleneck in the modern machine learning pipeline. Recent weak supervision approaches combine labels from multiple noisy sources by estimating their accuracies without access to ground truth labels; however, estimating the dependencies among these sources is a critical challenge. We foc…