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48 results for standard supervised learning

Meta-learning improves DNN generalization on standard supervised learning.

problem Improving deep neural networks' generalization without adding more parameters.
method MLTP simulates meta-training by considering a batch of samples as a task, optimizing for both current and new tasks.
result MLTP consistently improves DNN generalization across various sizes and datasets.

This paper improves learning complex functions with CoT supervision, reducing sample complexity.

problem Learning complex functions with multi-step reasoning.
method Develops a statistical theory linking CoT risk and end-to-end risk, using CoT information measure.
result CoT supervision can achieve significantly faster learning rates compared to standard E2E supervision.

We present a technique to improve the transferability of deep representations learned on small labeled datasets by introducing self-supervised tasks as auxiliary loss functions. While recent approaches for self-supervised learning have shown the benefits of training on large unlabeled datasets, we find improvements in …

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Paper proposes a new autoencoder metric for balanced learning in imbalanced tabular datasets.

problem Challenges of imbalanced self-supervised learning in tabular data.
method Developed a Multi-Supervised Balanced MSE metric to balance learning.
result The new metric outperforms standard MSE in imbalanced datasets.

Maximizing the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is a standard approach to imbalanced classification. So far, various supervised AUC optimization methods have been developed and they are also extended to semi-supervised scenarios to cope with small sample problems. However, existing semi-supe…

2017-05-04abs ↗pdf ↗

AaSP improves audio self-supervised learning by addressing aliasing issues.

problem Alias issues in audio spectrogram transformers.
method AaSP combines aliasing-aware patch representation, teacher-student masked modeling, cross-attention predictor, and contrastive regularization.
result AaSP learns more stable representations that integrate high-frequency cues.

A new method improves graph-based learning for high-dimensional data.

problem Inconsistent high-dimensional learning efficiency of semi-supervised graph regularization.
method Introducing a novel regularization approach involving centering operation.
result Empirical results show improved performance over spectral clustering.

This paper introduces a general multi-class approach to weakly supervised classification. Inferring the labels and learning the parameters of the model is usually done jointly through a block-coordinate descent algorithm such as expectation-maximization (EM), which may lead to local minima. To avoid this problem, we pr…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

New method shows supervised learning can mimic unsupervised learning effectively.

problem The fundamental difference between supervised and unsupervised learning.
method A two-stage procedure where unsupervised model selection is followed by adding outputs without changing parameters.
result Asymptotic out-of-sample risk bounds for various models trained without access to labels.

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.

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.

Determining the best method for training a machine learning algorithm is critical to maximizing its ability to classify data. In this paper, we compare the standard "fully supervised" approach (that relies on knowledge of event-by-event truth-level labels) with a recent proposal that instead utilizes class ratios as th…

2017-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

Detecting temporal extents of human actions in videos is a challenging computer vision problem that requires detailed manual supervision including frame-level labels. This expensive annotation process limits deploying action detectors to a limited number of categories. We propose a novel method, called WSGN, that learn…

2019-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Noisy labeled data represent a rich source of information that often are easily accessible and cheap to obtain, but label noise might also have many negative consequences if not accounted for. How to fully utilize noisy labels has been studied extensively within the framework of standard supervised machine learning ove…

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Inference and learning for probabilistic generative networks is often very challenging and typically prevents scalability to as large networks as used for deep discriminative approaches. To obtain efficiently trainable, large-scale and well performing generative networks for semi-supervised learning, we here combine tw…

2017-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We present label gradient alignment, a novel algorithm for semi-supervised learning which imputes labels for the unlabeled data and trains on the imputed labels. We define a semantically meaningful distance metric on the input space by mapping a point (x, y) to the gradient of the model at (x, y). We then formulate an …

2019-02-06abs ↗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).

Compared with standard supervised learning, the key difficulty in semi-supervised learning is how to make full use of the unlabeled data. A recently proposed method, virtual adversarial training (VAT), smartly performs adversarial training without label information to impose a local smoothness on the classifier, which …

2018-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Contrastive learning outperforms autoencoders and GANs in feature recovery and downstream tasks.

problem Theoretical understanding of contrastive learning's superiority in feature learning.
method Theoretical analysis of contrastive learning in linear representation settings.
result Contrastive learning outperforms autoencoders and GANs for feature recovery and in-domain downstream tasks.

We study learning latent models with multi-instance weak supervision.

problem Learning latent models with multi-instance weak supervision.
method Formulated as multi-instance Partial Label Learning (multi-instance PLL), proposed a necessary and sufficient condition for learnability, derived Rademacher-style error bounds.
result First theoretical study of multi-instance PLL with unknown transition function, aligns with empirical results but highlights scalability issues.

Maximizes image representation dependence for self-supervised learning.

problem Learning meaningful image representations from unlabeled data.
method Maximizes Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion (HSIC) between image transformations and identity.
result Matches state-of-the-art performance on ImageNet and other vision tasks.

Supervised topic models can help clinical researchers find interpretable cooccurence patterns in count data that are relevant for diagnostics. However, standard formulations of supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation have two problems. First, when documents have many more words than labels, the influence of the labels w…

2016-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper shows cross-entropy can recover latent structures in supervised learning.

problem Understanding why supervised learning works well and how models learn interpretable factors of variation.
method Extending identifiability results to parametric instance discrimination, proving cross-entropy minimization can recover latent structures up to linear transformations.
result Models trained with cross-entropy can learn representations of ground-truth factors of variation up to a linear transformation.

Protein modeling is an increasingly popular area of machine learning research. Semi-supervised learning has emerged as an important paradigm in protein modeling due to the high cost of acquiring supervised protein labels, but the current literature is fragmented when it comes to datasets and standardized evaluation tec…

2019-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

InfoSFT improves LLMs by focusing on informative, medium-confidence tokens.

problem Overfitting to unlikely samples and degradation of prior capabilities in SFT.
method InfoSFT uses a principled weighting scheme to concentrate learning signals on medium-confidence tokens.
result InfoSFT improves generalization and preserves pre-existing capabilities over vanilla SFT and likelihood-weighted baselines.

Curriculum Labeling improves semi-supervised learning with pseudo-labeling, achieving high accuracy with minimal labeled data.

problem Improving semi-supervised learning with limited labeled data.
method Applying curriculum learning principles and restarting model parameters before each self-training cycle.
result 94.91% accuracy on CIFAR-10 with only 4,000 labeled samples.

Recently there has been substantial interest in spectral methods for learning dynamical systems. These methods are popular since they often offer a good tradeoff between computational and statistical efficiency. Unfortunately, they can be difficult to use and extend in practice: e.g., they can make it difficult to inco…

2015-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Universal supervised learning is considered from an information theoretic point of view following the universal prediction approach, see Merhav and Feder (1998). We consider the standard supervised "batch" learning where prediction is done on a test sample once the entire training data is observed, and the individual s…

2018-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗