Plan2Explore learns new tasks efficiently through self-supervised planning.
problem Challenges in reinforcement learning, especially task-specific learning and sample efficiency.
method Self-supervised exploration and fast adaptation to new tasks through efficient planning.
result Plan2Explore outperforms prior methods in learning new tasks without supervision.
Self-supervision improves GCNs' generalizability and robustness.
problem Improving graph convolutional networks' performance.
method Three mechanisms of self-supervision, multi-task learning, and graph adversarial training.
result Self-supervision enhances GCNs' robustness and generalizability.
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.
This paper introduces a method to select and weight pretext tasks for better self-supervised speech representation learning.
problem Combining pretext tasks for better performance in self-supervised speech representation learning.
method Estimating calibrated weights for partial losses corresponding to pretext tasks during self-supervised training.
result Groups of selected and weighted pretext tasks perform better than classic baselines in automatic speech recognition and speaker/emotion recognition.
New framework analyzes why more negative samples improve self-supervised learning performance.
problem Inconsistency between theoretical degradation and empirical improvement of downstream supervised tasks with more negative samples.
method Coupon collector's problem framework to analyze self-supervised representation learning with more negative samples.
result Bound can implicitly incorporate supervised loss in self-supervised loss by increasing negative samples.
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…
Proposes a framework for semi-supervised continual learning from sequentially arriving data.
problem Learning from data with changing task distribution over time, especially in domains with a mix of labeled and unlabeled data.
method Meta-Consolidation for Continual Semi-Supervised Learning (MCSSL) framework with a hypernetwork and semi-supervised auxiliary classifier.
result Significant improvements in continual semi-supervised learning setting.
Self-supervised ECG learning improves emotion recognition.
problem Improving emotion recognition from ECG signals.
method Multi-task deep learning framework with signal transformations as pretext tasks.
result Significant performance improvement in emotion classification.
This paper analyzes self-supervised learning from a multi-view perspective.
problem Understanding and optimizing self-supervised learning from multi-view data.
method Information-theoretical framework to understand and design self-supervised learning objectives.
result Self-supervised representations can extract task-relevant information and discard task-irrelevant information.
Self-supervised metric learning boosts downstream tasks in multi-view data.
problem Improving distance-based downstream tasks without labeled data.
method Developed a statistical framework to study self-supervised metric learning in multi-view data.
result Self-supervised metric learning improves target distances for various downstream tasks.
A new method improves semi-supervised learning by handling tasks with different attribute spaces.
problem Existing methods assume tasks share the same attribute space, limiting their applicability.
method Meta-learning approach that embeds labeled and unlabeled data in task-specific spaces using neural networks.
result Improves test performance on tasks with small labeled data using unlabeled and various task data.
Improved audio classification with limited labels using multitask and self-supervised learning.
problem Limited labeled data for audio classification.
method Multitask learning and self-supervised learning on unlabeled data.
result Significant improvement in performance (up to 6%) through multitask and self-supervised learning.
Boosts few-shot learning with self-supervised representations.
problem Improving generalization on small labeled datasets.
method Introduces self-supervised tasks as auxiliary loss functions.
result Reduces relative error rate by 5-25% on few-shot learning benchmarks.
Novel ramp loss method improves weakly supervised machine translation and parsing.
problem Training neural models without gold labels in weak supervision scenarios.
method Adapted ramp loss objectives to promote positive outputs and discourage negative ones.
result Bipolar ramp loss objectives outperform other methods on weakly supervised tasks.
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.
Self-supervised method learns from unlabelled point clouds by reconstructing them.
problem Efficiently learning from large, unlabelled 3D point cloud datasets.
method Trains neural networks to reconstruct point clouds with randomly rearranged parts.
result Method learns semantic properties of point clouds and improves downstream object classification.
Method reweights auxiliary tasks to reduce data need for main task.
problem Limited labeled data for supervised learning.
method Formulates weighted likelihood function as surrogate prior, minimizing divergence to true prior.
result Effective use of limited labeled data with auxiliary tasks, improving performance.
TAPE benchmarks protein learning tasks, finds self-supervised pretraining boosts performance.
problem Fragmented datasets and lack of standardized evaluation in protein modeling.
method TAPE introduces five semi-supervised learning tasks, curates splits, benchmarks models.
result Self-supervised pretraining more than doubles performance in some cases.
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…
Survey on self-supervised pre-training for neural networks using unlabeled data.
problem Improving model performance using unlabeled data.
method Pre-training on unlabeled data followed by task-specific adaptation.
result Enhanced model performance through self-supervised pre-training.
New method for learning evolving tasks with performance guarantees.
problem Learning tasks in a sequence with evolving similarity.
method Adaptable learning methodology with performance guarantees.
result Improved performance in multiple scenarios with reliable guarantees.
Weakly-supervised RL identifies meaningful tasks, improving performance in complex environments.
problem Learning to efficiently explore and distinguish between meaningful and irrelevant tasks.
method Weak supervision to automatically disentangle meaningful tasks from a large space of nonsensical tasks.
result The learned subspace of meaningful tasks leads to substantial performance gains, especially in complex environments.
Self-supervised learning enhances model robustness and uncertainty.
problem Improving model robustness and uncertainty estimation.
method Self-supervised learning without requiring labels.
result Self-supervised learning improves robustness to adversarial examples, label corruption, and input corruptions.
Many supervised learning tasks are emerged in dual forms, e.g., English-to-French translation vs. French-to-English translation, speech recognition vs. text to speech, and image classification vs. image generation. Two dual tasks have intrinsic connections with each other due to the probabilistic correlation between th…
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.
Self-supervised skip-tree training improves mathematical reasoning in language models.
problem Improving logical reasoning in language models for formal mathematics.
method Self-supervised language modeling on mathematical formulas, skip-tree task.
result Models trained on skip-tree task outperform standard models in mathematical reasoning tasks.
Improved method learns robust speech representations from multiple tasks.
problem Learning good speech representations without supervision.
method Single encoder with multiple self-supervised tasks.
result Transferable, robust, problem-agnostic features learned.
Study of multi-task semi-supervised learning in high dimensions.
problem Analysis of multi-task semi-supervised learning in high-dimensional settings.
method Random matrix theory applied to characterize asymptotics of key functionals.
result Predicts algorithm performance and provides efficient usage guidelines.
Paper improves model accuracy with self-supervised learning.
problem Improving model accuracy with unlabeled data.
method Trains model on both original and self-supervised labels via input transformations.
result Significant accuracy improvement on fully-labeled datasets.
This work proposes a new pre-processing method for supervised learning to improve fairness without sacrificing utility.
problem Improving fairness in supervised learning without compromising model performance.
method Task-tailored pre-processing approach that balances fairness and utility.
result The proposed method preserves consistent trade-offs among multiple downstream models and improves fairness in computer vision tasks.
Learning to drive faithfully in highly stochastic urban settings remains an open problem. To that end, we propose a Multi-task Learning from Demonstration (MT-LfD) framework which uses supervised auxiliary task prediction to guide the main task of predicting the driving commands. Our framework involves an end-to-end tr…
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…
With the rapid increase of compound databases available in medicinal and material science, there is a growing need for learning representations of molecules in a semi-supervised manner. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised hierarchical feature extraction algorithm for molecules (or more generally, graph-structured…
Paper proposes multi-task learning for multi-modal video Q&A.
problem Expensive to create large-scale datasets for multi-modal video Q&A.
method Composed of three networks: video Q&A, temporal retrieval, and modality alignment.
result State-of-the-art results on TVQA dataset.
Self-supervised pretraining for heterogeneous hypergraphs improves graph-based tasks.
problem Capturing higher-order relations in heterogeneous hypergraphs.
method SPHH framework for self-supervised pretraining of heterogeneous HyperGNNs.
result SPHH consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in various downstream tasks.
Unified VAE framework improves unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised learning.
problem Improving performance in learning tasks with limited labeled data.
method A VAE with a classification layer connected to the encoder and combined with the latent layer for the decoder, supplemented with a supervised loss for labeled data.
result The approach outperforms direct supervised setups and boosts unsupervised tasks with unlabeled data.
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.
SidAE combines autoencoders and Siamese networks for self-supervised feature extraction.
problem Efficiently extract meaningful features from unlabeled data.
method Proposes SidAE, a combination of autoencoders and Siamese networks for self-supervised image classification.
result SidAE outperforms self-supervised baselines across multiple datasets and scenarios, especially with limited labeled data.
We show how a deep denoising autoencoder with lateral connections can be used as an auxiliary unsupervised learning task to support supervised learning. The proposed model is trained to minimize simultaneously the sum of supervised and unsupervised cost functions by back-propagation, avoiding the need for layer-wise pr…
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 …
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 (≤13 labeled images per class). Framework fine-tunes foundation models with semi-supervised learning for downstream tasks and latent spaces.
problem Training foundation models with limited labelled data.
method Mutual information decomposition for downstream and latent spaces, semi-supervised fine-tuning.
result Significant improvements in classification tasks under low-labelled conditions.
Weak labels can significantly speed up learning for strong tasks.
problem Learning with limited strong labels.
method Using weak labels to accelerate learning of strong tasks.
result Weak labels can accelerate learning to O(icefrac1n) rate. New method learns auxiliary labels automatically for improved generalisation.
problem Improving generalisation in supervised learning without additional data.
method Trains two neural networks: label-generation and multi-task networks.
result MAXL outperforms single-task learning on 7 image datasets.
The paper introduces a method to measure the benefits of incidental supervision signals.
problem Lack of a principled way to measure the benefits of various types of incidental supervision signals.
method Unified PAC-Bayesian motivated informativeness measure, PABI.
result Demonstrates PABI's effectiveness in quantifying the value added by various types of incidental signals.
This paper presents a new semi-supervised framework with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for text categorization. Unlike the previous approaches that rely on word embeddings, our method learns embeddings of small text regions from unlabeled data for integration into a supervised CNN. The proposed scheme for embedd…
Self-supervised learning improves by predicting known information, reducing labeled data needs.
problem Efficiently learn useful semantic representations without labeled data.
method Develops a mechanism exploiting statistical connections between pretext tasks to learn representations that solve downstream tasks.
result Proves linear layer yields small approximation error and drastically reduces labeled sample complexity.
Novel approach to contextual bandits using self-supervised learning.
problem Exploiting rich data representations in computer vision without explicit labels.
method Combining contextual bandit objective with self-supervision objective.
result Substantial gains in cumulative reward on computer vision datasets.