Similarity-based clustering and semi-supervised learning methods separate the data into clusters or classes according to the pairwise similarity between the data, and the pairwise similarity is crucial for their performance. In this paper, we propose a novel discriminative similarity learning framework which learns dis…
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Recently, researches related to unsupervised disentanglement learning with deep generative models have gained substantial popularity. However, without introducing supervision, there is no guarantee that the factors of interest can be successfully recovered. Motivated by a real-world problem, we propose a setting where …
Paper proposes a supervised similarity framework for corporate bonds using RF proximities.
problem Challenges in measuring similarity for corporate bonds due to noisy data and lack of ground truth.
method Proposes a supervised similarity framework using Random Forest for corporate bonds, introducing a novel metric to evaluate similarities.
result Random Forest outperforms other methods in evaluating similarities for corporate bonds.
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.
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.
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.
Supervised Similarity for High-Yield Corporate Bonds with Quantum Cognition Machine Learningq-fin.ST
QCML improves bond similarity learning in illiquid markets.
problem Improving similarity learning for illiquid corporate bonds.
method Quantum Cognition Machine Learning (QCML) for supervised distance metric learning.
result QCML outperforms classical tree-based models in high-yield markets.
We address the problem of general supervised learning when data can only be accessed through an (indefinite) similarity function between data points. Existing work on learning with indefinite kernels has concentrated solely on binary/multi-class classification problems. We propose a model that is generic enough to hand…
New approach uses contrastive learning for better wireless power control.
problem Improving power control in wireless networks.
method A multi-layer perceptron with a contrastive learning backbone and head.
result Significant gains in sum-throughput and sample efficiency over supervised learning.
New algorithm detects community labels in networks using unlabeled data.
problem Detect community labels in networks with partially labeled data.
method Proposes an algorithm using structural similarity metrics.
result Theoretical guarantees for misclassification error.
Proposes a new method to learn distance metrics for semi-supervised learning.
problem Inconsistency between perturbed input sets and lack of pairwise relationship information.
method Metric Learning by Similarity Network (MLSN) co-training with a classification network to learn distance metrics adaptively.
result Performs better than state-of-the-art methods on empirical tasks.
SimStock learns stock similarities for better investment management.
problem Challenges in identifying similar stocks due to non-stationary financial markets.
method Temporal self-supervised learning framework combining SSL and temporal domain generalization.
result SimStock outperforms existing methods in finding similar stocks.
We introduce TzK (pronounced "task"), a conditional probability flow-based model that exploits attributes (e.g., style, class membership, or other side information) in order to learn tight conditional prior around manifolds of the target observations. The model is trained via approximated ML, and offers efficient appro…
Proposes a method to improve hierarchical clustering using set-level structural priors.
problem Lack of supervision for non-leaf structure in hierarchical clustering.
method Introduces set-level structural priors for semi-supervised hyperbolic hierarchical clustering.
result Improves label consistency and similarity-based tree quality over baselines.
ClassSim: Similarity between Classes Defined by Misclassification Ratios of Trained Classifierscs.CV
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved exceptional performances in many tasks, particularly, in supervised classification tasks. However, achievements with supervised classification tasks are based on large datasets with well-separated classes. Typically, real-world applications involve wild datasets that include si…
End-to-end graph-based SSL learns all graph factors dynamically.
problem Learning quality of graph in SSL is crucial but difficult.
method Proposes an end-to-end approach to optimize all graph factors.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on benchmark datasets.
Classical supervised classification tasks search for a nonlinear mapping that maps each encoded feature directly to a probability mass over the labels. Such a learning framework typically lacks the intuition that encoded features from the same class tend to be similar and thus has little interpretability for the learne…
Cosine similarity can force points to grow in magnitude, causing convergence issues.
problem Cosine similarity loss can lead to convergence issues in deep learning.
method Analyzing under-explored settings and proposing cut-initialization.
result Cosine similarity optimization forces points to grow in magnitude, leading to convergence issues.
Bayesian Supervised Causal Clustering identifies patient subgroups for personalized decision-making.
problem Finding patient subgroups with similar characteristics for personalized decision-making.
method Bayesian Supervised Causal Clustering (BSCC) that identifies homogenous subgroups based on treatment effects.
result BSCC identifies subgroups with similar covariate profiles and treatment effects.
S2MAM improves semi-supervised learning by selecting relevant variables and updating similarity metrics.
problem Joint learning from labeled and unlabeled data with geometric structure.
method Bilevel optimization scheme for automatic variable selection and similarity matrix update.
result The proposed S2MAM achieves robust and interpretable predictions.
DNN-based cross-modal retrieval has become a research hotspot, by which users can search results across various modalities like image and text. However, existing methods mainly focus on the pairwise correlation and reconstruction error of labeled data. They ignore the semantically similar and dissimilar constraints bet…
In this article, the logic rule ensembles approach to supervised learning is applied to the unsupervised or semi-supervised clustering. Logic rules which were obtained by combining simple conjunctive rules are used to partition the input space and an ensemble of these rules is used to define a similarity matrix. Simila…
Most network-based machine learning methods assume that the labels of two adjacent samples in the network are likely to be the same. However, assuming the pairwise relationship between samples is not complete. The information a group of samples that shows very similar pattern and tends to have similar labels is missed.…
ROTS improves sentence similarity by incorporating structural information.
problem Measuring sentence similarity with theoretical insights and structural awareness.
method Recursive Optimal Transport (ROT) framework to incorporate structural information.
result ROTS outperforms weakly supervised approaches in sentence similarity tasks.
GraphCL learns node representations by maximizing similarity between perturbed node features.
problem Learning node representations in graph data without labeled data.
method Contrastive learning of node embeddings using graph neural networks and a loss function.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art in unsupervised node classification benchmarks.
CLOCS uses contrastive learning to improve cardiac signal representations.
problem Lack of labelled data in cardiac signal analysis.
method Contrastive learning across space, time, and patients.
result CLOCS outperforms state-of-the-art methods and achieves strong generalization.
ContraSim learns financial headline similarities for market forecasting.
problem Financial market forecasting accuracy improvement.
method ContraSim framework with Weighted Headline Augmentation and WSSCL.
result Improves financial forecasting accuracy by 7%.
New method for estimating firm linkages using CVLs and QCML.
problem Estimating firm linkages for profitable trading strategies.
method Characteristic Vector Linkages (CVLs) and Quantum Cognition Machine Learning (QCML).
result QCML similarity outperforms Euclidean similarity in constructing profitable trading strategies.
Paper tackles noisy S-D data for classification.
problem Learning from noisy Similar (S) and Dissimilar (D) pairs.
method Proposes two algorithms to learn from noisy S-D data under two noise models.
result Noise-informed algorithms outperform noise-blind baselines.
The study calculates the risk of semi-supervised multitask learning on Gaussian mixtures.
problem Understanding the risk in semi-supervised multitask learning on Gaussian mixtures.
method Statistical physics methods applied to Gaussian mixture models.
result The study evaluates the performance gain of learning tasks together versus separately.
Similarity plays a fundamental role in many areas, including data mining, machine learning, statistics and various applied domains. Inspired by the success of ensemble methods and the flexibility of trees, we propose to learn a similarity kernel called rpf-kernel through random projection forests (rpForests). Our theor…
New method learns from noisy data without knowing noise level.
problem Learning from noisy data without knowing noise level.
method Uses Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimate (SURE) without noise level knowledge.
result Outperforms other self-supervised methods on imaging problems.
Semi-supervised clustering methods incorporate a limited amount of supervision into the clustering process. Typically, this supervision is provided by the user in the form of pairwise constraints. Existing methods use such constraints in one of the following ways: they adapt their clustering procedure, their similarity…
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.
Neural network models that are not conditioned on class identities were shown to facilitate knowledge transfer between classes and to be well-suited for one-shot learning tasks. Following this motivation, we further explore and establish such models and present a novel neural network architecture for the task of weakly…
This paper introduces PM and PMLP to enhance SSL by considering probability density and cluster assumptions.
problem Insufficient utilization of unlabeled data in SSL.
method Introduces PM to discern similarity and PMLP to consider cluster assumption in label propagation.
result PMLP outperforms other methods in SSL tasks.
Evaluating the clinical similarities between pairwise patients is a fundamental problem in healthcare informatics. A proper patient similarity measure enables various downstream applications, such as cohort study and treatment comparative effectiveness research. One major carrier for conducting patient similarity resea…
For semi-supervised techniques to be applied safely in practice we at least want methods to outperform their supervised counterparts. We study this question for classification using the well-known quadratic surrogate loss function. Using a projection of the supervised estimate onto a set of constraints imposed by the u…
Optimal transport semi-supervised learning improves GNSS multi-path detection.
problem GNSS multi-path interference detection.
method Wasserstein distance based semi-supervised manifold learning.
result Significant improvement in classification accuracy over fully supervised training.
Loss functions play a crucial role in deep metric learning thus a variety of them have been proposed. Some supervise the learning process by pairwise or tripletwise similarity constraints while others take advantage of structured similarity information among multiple data points. In this work, we approach deep metric l…
Two novel methods improve network embedding for completely-imbalanced labels.
problem Improving network embedding for networks with completely-imbalanced labels.
method Two novel semi-supervised network embedding methods: RSDNE and RECT.
result Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed methods.
Study compares memorization of SimCLR to supervised and random labels training.
problem Understanding memorization in contrastive learning.
method Investigated SimCLR's memorization properties compared to supervised and random labels training.
result SimCLR's memorization is similar to random labels training in terms of training object complexity distribution.
New hashing method improves document retrieval precision.
problem Efficiently retrieving similar documents from large text databases.
method Pairwise supervised hashing with Bernoulli VAE and unbiased gradient estimator.
result Superior performance compared to existing methods.
This study investigates self-supervised learning with Wasserstein distance on tree structures.
problem Improving self-supervised learning methods using Wasserstein distance.
method Utilized Tree-Wasserstein distance (TWD) and Jeffrey divergence regularization for training.
result A simple combination of softmax function and Tree-Wasserstein distance outperforms cosine similarity-based methods.
Adapts attention to supervised learning for personalized predictions.
problem Personalized predictions for each data point with model simplicity.
method Local model fitting with attention weighting for tabular data.
result Attention weighting improves predictive performance and preserves interpretability.
Transformer-based method discovers objects from images without labels.
problem Discovering objects in images without labeled data.
method Graph-based approach using self-supervised transformer features and normalized graph-cut.
result Significantly boosts performance in unsupervised object discovery.
MixMOOD improves SSDL by selecting unlabelled data based on deep feature similarity.
problem Class distribution mismatch in semi-supervised learning.
method MixMOOD uses deep dataset dissimilarity measures to select unlabelled data.
result MixMOOD selects unlabelled data based on strong correlation with MixMatch accuracy.
A growing number of threats to Android phones creates challenges for malware detection. Manually labeling the samples into benign or different malicious families requires tremendous human efforts, while it is comparably easy and cheap to obtain a large amount of unlabeled APKs from various sources. Moreover, the fast-p…