Unsupervised classification methods learn a discriminative classifier from unlabeled data, which has been proven to be an effective way of simultaneously clustering the data and training a classifier from the data. Various unsupervised classification methods obtain appealing results by the classifiers learned in an uns…
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Paper presents unsupervised calibration for split conformal classification.
problem Inconvenient requirement of labeled calibration samples.
method Uses unsupervised calibration samples alongside supervised training samples.
result Achieves comparable performance to supervised calibration methods.
We present a new flavor of Variational Autoencoder (VAE) that interpolates seamlessly between unsupervised, semi-supervised and fully supervised learning domains. We show that unlabeled datapoints not only boost unsupervised tasks, but also the classification performance. Vice versa, every label not only improves class…
Ensemble learning, the machine learning paradigm where multiple algorithms are combined, has exhibited promising perfomance in a variety of tasks. The present work focuses on unsupervised ensemble classification. The term unsupervised refers to the ensemble combiner who has no knowledge of the ground-truth labels that …
This research shows unsupervised GANs can perform object segmentation without labels.
problem Performing object segmentation without pixel or image-level labels.
method Used large-scale unsupervised GAN models to differentiate foreground from background.
result Demonstrated high-quality saliency masks and new state-of-the-art performance.
Many important classification problems, such as object classification, speech recognition, and machine translation, have been tackled by the supervised learning paradigm in the past, where training corpora of parallel input-output pairs are required with high cost. To remove the need for the parallel training corpora h…
We introduce 'semi-unsupervised learning', a problem regime related to transfer learning and zero-shot learning where, in the training data, some classes are sparsely labelled and others entirely unlabelled. Models able to learn from training data of this type are potentially of great use as many real-world datasets ar…
Traditionally, there are three species of classification: unsupervised, supervised, and semi-supervised. Supervised and semi-supervised classification differ by whether or not weight is given to unlabelled observations in the classification procedure. In unsupervised classification, or clustering, all observations are …
Unsupervised feature learning has shown impressive results for a wide range of input modalities, in particular for object classification tasks in computer vision. Using a large amount of unlabeled data, unsupervised feature learning methods are utilized to construct high-level representations that are discriminative en…
A new method generates meta-tasks using generative models for unsupervised learning.
problem Creating synthetic meta-tasks for unsupervised learning.
method Generative models with latent space interpolation for sampling.
result The method outperforms or is competitive with baselines on few-shot classification tasks.
Unsupervised learning classifies transient noise in gravitational wave detectors.
problem Transient noise interferes with gravitational wave signals, causing instability.
method Combines variational autoencoder and invariant information clustering.
result Consistent classification with Gravity Spy project labels.
Unsupervised anomaly detection from high dimensional data like mobility networks is a challenging task. Study of different approaches of feature engineering from such high dimensional data have been a focus of research in this field. This study aims to investigate the transferability of features learned by network clas…
LCBM model improves image classification without human supervision.
problem Improving interpretability and generalization of unsupervised concept-based models.
method LCBM models concepts as random variables in a Bernoulli latent space, reducing the number of concepts without sacrificing performance.
result LCBM outperforms existing models in generalization and interpretability.
Proposes a framework to balance supervised and unsupervised learning using random matrix theory.
problem Balancing supervised and unsupervised learning in high-dimensional data.
method QLDS model with quadratic margin maximization under low density separation assumption.
result Establishes a smooth bridge between supervised and unsupervised learning methods.
Crowdsourcing utilizes the wisdom of crowds for collective classification via information (e.g., labels of an item) provided by labelers. Current crowdsourcing algorithms are mainly unsupervised methods that are unaware of the quality of crowdsourced data. In this paper, we propose a supervised collective classificatio…
The increasing amount of data in astronomy provides great challenges for machine learning research. Previously, supervised learning methods achieved satisfactory recognition accuracy for the star-galaxy classification task, based on manually labeled data set. In this work, we propose a novel unsupervised approach for t…
Benchmark for UDA in time series classification.
problem Lack of benchmarks for unsupervised domain adaptation in time series.
method Introduces a comprehensive benchmark with new datasets and state-of-the-art neural network backbones.
result Insights into strengths and limitations of UDA methods for time series data.
For better classification generative models are used to initialize the model and model features before training a classifier. Typically it is needed to solve separate unsupervised and supervised learning problems. Generative restricted Boltzmann machines and deep belief networks are widely used for unsupervised learnin…
An Unsupervised Approach for Automatic Activity Recognition based on Hidden Markov Model Regressionstat.ML
Using supervised machine learning approaches to recognize human activities from on-body wearable accelerometers generally requires a large amount of labelled data. When ground truth information is not available, too expensive, time consuming or difficult to collect, one has to rely on unsupervised approaches. This pape…
Study reveals differences in label shift problem difficulty in supervised vs. unsupervised settings.
problem Label shift problem in non-parametric classification.
method Analysis of minimax rates in supervised and unsupervised settings, focusing on class conditional distributions estimation.
result A class proportion estimation approach is minimax rate-optimal in the unsupervised setting.
A new model CDTM improves text classification by concentrating document topics.
problem Unsupervised text classification with diverse topic distributions.
method Imposes an exponential entropy penalty on document topic distribution to encourage concentration.
result More coherent topics and concentrated, sparse document-topic distributions.
An unsupervised learning classification model is described. It achieves classification error probability competitive with that of popular supervised learning classifiers such as SVM or kNN. The model is based on the incremental execution of small step shift and rotation operations upon selected discriminative hyperplan…
Unsupervised domain adaptation improves with privileged information.
problem Domain adaptation under covariate shift and overlap limitations.
method Two-stage learning algorithm inspired by expected error analysis.
result Using privileged information reduces errors and increases sample efficiency.
We combine supervised learning with unsupervised learning in deep neural networks. The proposed model is trained to simultaneously minimize the sum of supervised and unsupervised cost functions by backpropagation, avoiding the need for layer-wise pre-training. Our work builds on the Ladder network proposed by Valpola (…
This paper reviews and proposes a new approach for evaluating internal cluster validation indices.
problem Selecting the best-performing unsupervised classification algorithm without external information.
method Examines and proposes a new evaluation approach for internal validation indices.
result Suggests a new evaluation approach for internal validation indices.
Hutter (2007) recently introduced the loss rank principle (LoRP) as a generalpurpose principle for model selection. The LoRP enjoys many attractive properties and deserves further investigations. The LoRP has been well-studied for regression framework in Hutter and Tran (2010). In this paper, we study the LoRP for clas…
A good representation for arbitrarily complicated data should have the capability of semantic generation, clustering and reconstruction. Previous research has already achieved impressive performance on either one. This paper aims at learning a disentangled representation effective for all of them in an unsupervised way…
Compressive learning is a framework where (so far unsupervised) learning tasks use not the entire dataset but a compressed summary (sketch) of it. We propose a compressive learning classification method, and a novel sketch function for images.
In this paper, we present a technique for unsupervised learning of visual representations. Specifically, we train a model for foreground and background classification task, in the process of which it learns visual representations. Foreground and background patches for training come af- ter mining for such patches from …
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised domain adaptation algorithm based on deep learning for visual object recognition. Specifically, we design a new model called Deep Reconstruction-Classification Network (DRCN), which jointly learns a shared encoding representation for two tasks: i) supervised classification…
The primary objective of domain adaptation methods is to transfer knowledge from a source domain to a target domain that has similar but different data distributions. Thus, in order to correctly classify the unlabeled target domain samples, the standard approach is to learn a common representation for both source and t…
New unsupervised learning technique learns independent kernels for better machine learning tasks.
problem Improving unsupervised representation learning for machine learning tasks.
method Stacking convolutional transforms using alternating proximal minimization scheme.
result DCTL outperforms shallow version CTL on benchmark datasets.
Unsupervised method learns hierarchical graph representations without labels.
problem Lack of hierarchical graph representations and need for labeled data in GNNs.
method Maximizes mutual information between local and global graph representations.
result Comparable performance to supervised methods on graph classification benchmarks.
We describe the 1st place winning approach for the CIKM Cup 2016 Challenge. In this paper, we provide an approach to reasonably identify same users across multiple devices based on browsing logs. Our approach regards a candidate ranking problem as pairwise classification and utilizes an unsupervised neural feature ense…
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Binary Classification with an Unobservable Source Subpopulationstat.ML
New method recovers predictions from unobservable source subpopulation in binary classification.
problem Challenging binary classification with unobservable subpopulation in source domain.
method Distribution matching method to estimate subpopulation proportions, rigorous derivation of prediction models.
result Our method outperforms naive benchmarks in synthetic and real-world datasets.
In this paper we propose a strategy for semi-supervised image classification that leverages unsupervised representation learning and co-training. The strategy, that is called CURL from Co-trained Unsupervised Representation Learning, iteratively builds two classifiers on two different views of the data. The two views c…
The transparent cornea is the window of the eye, facilitating the entry of light rays and controlling focusing the movement of the light within the eye. The cornea is critical, contributing to 75% of the refractive power of the eye. Keratoconus is a progressive and multifactorial corneal degenerative disease affecting …
PanRep learns universal node embeddings for heterogeneous graphs.
problem Learning universal node embeddings for heterogeneous graphs.
method Graph Neural Network (GNN) model with four decoders capturing different properties.
result PanRep outperforms unsupervised and supervised methods in node classification and link prediction.
The Monte Carlo dropout method has proved to be a scalable and easy-to-use approach for estimating the uncertainty of deep neural network predictions. This approach was recently applied to Fault Detection and Di-agnosis (FDD) applications to improve the classification performance on incipient faults. In this paper, we …
MetFA aligns source and target domains for cross-device image classification.
problem Learning discriminative class boundaries across different domains.
method Distance metric guided feature alignment (MetFA) for domain-invariant and discriminative feature extraction.
result MetFA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in cross-device image classification.
Deep learning demands a huge amount of well-labeled data to train the network parameters. How to use the least amount of labeled data to obtain the desired classification accuracy is of great practical significance, because for many real-world applications (such as medical diagnosis), it is difficult to obtain so many …
NoiseRank reduces label noise without supervision, improving classification accuracy.
problem Label noise in datasets from noisy channels.
method NoiseRank uses Markov Random Fields to estimate and rank instances based on their noise probability.
result NoiseRank improves classification accuracy on noisy datasets.
Detects drifts in data for classification tasks using constrained embeddings.
problem Drifts in data affect model performance; unsupervised methods ignore label information.
method Task-sensitive semi-supervised drift detection with constrained low-dimensional embedding.
result Successfully detects real drifts affecting classification performance.
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…
Many data mining and data analysis techniques operate on dense matrices or complete tables of data. Real-world data sets, however, often contain unknown values. Even many classification algorithms that are designed to operate with missing values still exhibit deteriorated accuracy. One approach to handling missing valu…
New method reconstructs past foehn occurrences using unsupervised and supervised learning.
problem Reconstructing past foehn occurrences due to lack of direct measurement.
method Combining unsupervised and supervised learning methods to infer foehn occurrences from reanalysis data.
result Accurate hourly reconstructions of past foehn occurrences for 83 years.
We introduce single-set spectral sparsification as a deterministic sampling based feature selection technique for regularized least squares classification, which is the classification analogue to ridge regression. The method is unsupervised and gives worst-case guarantees of the generalization power of the classificati…
A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning works aim to do so by developing proxy objectives based on reconstruction, disent…