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Online semi-supervised perception: Real-time learning without explicit feedback

Machine Learning 2026-05-01 v1

Abstract

This paper proposes an algorithm for real-time learning without explicit feedback. The algorithm combines the ideas of semi-supervised learning on graphs and online learning. In particular, it iteratively builds a graphical representation of its world and updates it with observed examples. Labeled examples constitute the initial bias of the algorithm and are provided offline, and a stream of unlabeled examples is collected online to update this bias. We motivate the algorithm, discuss how to implement it efficiently, prove a regret bound on the quality of its solutions, and apply it to the problem of real-time face recognition. Our recognizer runs in real time, and achieves superior precision and recall on 3 challenging video datasets.

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@article{arxiv.2604.27562,
  title  = {Online semi-supervised perception: Real-time learning without explicit feedback},
  author = {Branislav Kveton and Michal Valko and Matthai Phillipose and Ling Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.27562},
  year   = {2026}
}

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IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Online Learning for Computer Vision (CVPR 2010 OLCV)

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