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Paper develops methods for semi-supervised Fréchet regression.
problem High costs of obtaining non-Euclidean labels.
method Proposes semi-supervised NW Fréchet regression and semi-supervised kNN Fréchet regression.
result Demonstrates superior performance over supervised methods.
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…
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.
Inference of gene regulatory network from expression data is a challenging task. Many methods have been developed to this purpose but a comprehensive evaluation that covers unsupervised, semi-supervised and supervised methods, and provides guidelines for their practical application, is lacking. We performed an extensiv…
Self-supervised and supervised methods learn similar intermediate visual representations but diverge in final layers.
problem Comparing self-supervised and supervised methods for visual learning.
method Comparison of contrastive self-supervised and supervised methods on simple image data.
result Contrastive and supervised methods learn similar intermediate representations but diverge in final layers.
Hashing has been widely used for large-scale approximate nearest neighbor search because of its storage and search efficiency. Recent work has found that deep supervised hashing can significantly outperform non-deep supervised hashing in many applications. However, most existing deep supervised hashing methods adopt a …
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.
Labeled data used for training activity recognition classifiers are usually limited in terms of size and diversity. Thus, the learned model may not generalize well when used in real-world use cases. Semi-supervised learning augments labeled examples with unlabeled examples, often resulting in improved performance. Howe…
DoubleMatch combines pseudo-labeling with self-supervision for SSL.
problem Lack of effective use of unlabeled data in SSL.
method Combines pseudo-labeling with self-supervised loss.
result Achieves state-of-the-art accuracies on multiple datasets.
S4 learns new self-supervision automatically, improving accuracy with less human effort.
problem Lack of direct supervision in machine learning.
method Combines deep learning and probabilistic logic to automatically generate and verify new self-supervision.
result S4 can automatically propose accurate self-supervision, matching supervised methods with less human effort.
Survey of self-supervised learning methods in computer vision, NLP, and graph learning.
problem Manual labeling and vulnerability to attacks in supervised learning.
method Generative, contrastive, and generative-contrastive approaches.
result Self-supervised learning achieves high performance in representation learning.
Self-supervised learning improves few-shot classification and segmentation on point clouds.
problem Efficiently learn from limited labeled data in point cloud applications.
method Hierarchical cover-tree partitioning for self-supervised pre-training; restricted to support set for few-shot learning.
result Self-supervised learning significantly improves downstream classification and segmentation accuracy.
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.
A method for collecting human supervision that combines rules and instance labels.
problem Lack of labeled data and inefficient human supervision.
method Rule-exemplar method with training algorithm for joint denoising and model training.
result Our algorithm is more accurate than existing methods and effectively denoises rules.
Deep nearest neighbors outperform self-supervised methods in anomaly detection.
problem Anomaly detection using self-supervised deep methods.
method Simple nearest-neighbor approach on Imagenet pretrained features.
result Nearest-neighbor method outperforms self-supervised methods in accuracy, few shot generalization, training time, and noise robustness.
This paper provides an overview of deep semi-supervised learning methods.
problem Reducing the need for large annotated datasets in deep learning.
method Summarizes dominant semi-supervised approaches in deep learning.
result Provides a comprehensive overview of deep semi-supervised learning.
We propose the application of a semi-supervised learning method to improve the performance of acoustic modelling for automatic speech recognition based on deep neural net- works. As opposed to unsupervised initialisation followed by supervised fine tuning, our method takes advantage of both unlabelled and labelled data…
In this study, importance of user inputs is studied in the context of personalizing human activity recognition models using incremental learning. Inertial sensor data from three body positions are used, and the classification is based on Learn++ ensemble method. Three different approaches to update models are compared:…
New method improves OSSL by learning from all unlabeled data.
problem Handling open-set semi-supervised learning with unknown classes.
method Self-supervision and energy-based score for all unlabeled data.
result State-of-the-art results on benchmark problems.
Improved self-supervised learning for document images.
problem Performance of self-supervised pre-training on document images is poor.
method Proposed context-aware alternatives and a novel multi-modal method.
result Novel method outperforms other self-supervised methods on document image classification.
New method separates objects from images using deep neural networks trained to inpaint.
problem Fully self-supervised instance separation of occluded objects in images.
method Maximizes independence of two image regions given a fully self-supervised inpainting network.
result Method achieves similar segmentation performance to fully supervised methods on microscopy image datasets.
Enhances supervised visualization for unseen data using autoencoders and random forest.
problem Lack of generalization to unseen test sets in supervised dimensionality reduction.
method Combines autoencoder and random forest proximities for out-of-sample extension.
result 40% reduction in training time with 10% of training data, achieving consistent quality.
This work tackles continual learning with semi-supervised data, showing that even with minimal labeled data, performance can match full-supervised methods.
problem Training deep networks on a stream of tasks without forgetting, especially when labeled data is scarce.
method Designing a novel CSSL method that leverages metric learning and consistency regularization to learn from both labeled and unlabeled data.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods trained with full supervision, achieving comparable performance with only 25% labeled data.
There has been an increasing interest in semi-supervised learning in the recent years because of the great number of datasets with a large number of unlabeled data but only a few labeled samples. Semi-supervised learning algorithms can work with both types of data, combining them to obtain better performance for both c…
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.
Use of computational methods to predict gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data is a challenging task. Many studies have been conducted using unsupervised methods to fulfill the task; however, such methods usually yield low prediction accuracies due to the lack of training data. In this article, we pr…
Paper analyzes self-supervised learning using causal methods and proposes a new objective.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding of self-supervised learning success.
method Uses a causal framework to enforce invariance constraints on proxy classifiers.
result ReLIC objective improves generalization guarantees and outperforms existing methods.
Paper tackles class-imbalanced semi-supervised learning, improving performance.
problem Class imbalance in semi-supervised learning datasets.
method Proposes Suppressed Consistency Loss (SCL) to handle class imbalance.
result Method shows better performance in class-imbalanced semi-supervised learning environments.
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.
Faster weak supervision framework using triplet methods.
problem Computational inefficiency in weak supervision models.
method Closed-form solution for latent variable models, avoiding iterative methods.
result Orders of magnitude faster than previous approaches.
Supporting supervised learning in fungal Biosynthetic Gene Cluster discovery: new benchmark datasetsq-bio.GN
New datasets support supervised learning for fungal BGC discovery.
problem Lack of labeled data for fungal BGCs.
method Developed new publicly available datasets for supervised learning.
result Supervised learning outperforms data-driven methods in fungal BGC prediction.
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.
Radio emitter recognition in dense multi-user environments is an important tool for optimizing spectrum utilization, identifying and minimizing interference, and enforcing spectrum policy. Radio data is readily available and easy to obtain from an antenna, but labeled and curated data is often scarce making supervised …
This paper investigates semi-supervised hashing methods using variational autoencoders.
problem Semantic hashing with scarce labels.
method Two semi-supervised approaches: joint modeling and pairwise loss.
result The pairwise approach can improve hash quality with many labeled points but degrades with few labels.
Improved self-supervised learning on ImageNet achieves top-1 accuracy of 77.1%.
problem Self-supervised ResNets underperform supervised learning on ImageNet.
method ReLICv2 combines explicit invariance loss with contrastive objective over varied data views.
result ReLICv2 achieves 77.1% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, improving over previous state-of-the-art by 1.5%.
Semi-supervised learning is a setting in which one has labeled and unlabeled data available. In this survey we explore different types of theoretical results when one uses unlabeled data in classification and regression tasks. Most methods that use unlabeled data rely on certain assumptions about the data distribution.…
Recent years have witnessed growing interest in machine learning-based models and techniques for low-dose X-ray CT (LDCT) imaging tasks. The methods can typically be categorized into supervised learning methods and unsupervised or model-based learning methods. Supervised learning methods have recently shown success in …
Adapts self-supervised learning using probabilistic sets with validity guarantees.
problem Lack of validity guarantees in pseudo-labels from self-supervised learning.
method Uses conformal prediction to provide validity guarantees for probabilistic labels.
result Valid probabilistic labels improve calibration and performance.
Adversarial training provides a means of regularizing supervised learning algorithms while virtual adversarial training is able to extend supervised learning algorithms to the semi-supervised setting. However, both methods require making small perturbations to numerous entries of the input vector, which is inappropriat…
This paper compares unstructured and structured EM-based semi-supervised learning methods.
problem Semi-supervised learning with EM algorithm for structured prediction.
method Comparative study between unstructured and structured EM-based semi-supervised learning methods.
result Structured EM is more robust to class confusion in flood mapping datasets.
To detect the irregular trade behaviors in the stock market is the important problem in machine learning field. These irregular trade behaviors are obviously illegal. To detect these irregular trade behaviors in the stock market, data scientists normally employ the supervised learning techniques. In this paper, we empl…
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…
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…
Semi-supervised wrapper methods are concerned with building effective supervised classifiers from partially labeled data. Though previous works have succeeded in some fields, it is still difficult to apply semi-supervised wrapper methods to practice because the assumptions those methods rely on tend to be unrealistic i…
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.
Self-supervision provides effective representations for downstream tasks without requiring labels. However, existing approaches lag behind fully supervised training and are often not thought beneficial beyond obviating or reducing the need for annotations. We find that self-supervision can benefit robustness in a varie…
S3C2 uses Siamese networks for semi-supervised clustering with pairwise constraints.
problem Semi-supervised clustering with pairwise constraints.
method S3C2 decomposes SSC into two classification tasks: first, using Siamese networks to label unlabeled pairs; second, using the labeled dataset for clustering.
result S3C2 outperforms existing SSC methods on various datasets.