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In this work, we develop a simple algorithm for semi-supervised regression. The key idea is to use the top eigenfunctions of integral operator derived from both labeled and unlabeled examples as the basis functions and learn the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Ming Ji , Tianbao Yang , Binbin Lin , Rong Jin , Jiawei Han

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-12 Matthew Willetts , Aiden Doherty , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

Supervised learning, characterized by both discriminative and generative learning, seeks to predict the values of single (or sometimes multiple) predefined target attributes based on a predefined set of predictor attributes. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Yuan Jin , Wray Buntine , Francois Petitjean , Geoffrey I. Webb

We introduce a family of multitask variational methods for semi-supervised sequence labeling. Our model family consists of a latent-variable generative model and a discriminative labeler. The generative models use latent variables to define…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Mingda Chen , Qingming Tang , Karen Livescu , Kevin Gimpel

Semi-supervised learning deals with the problem of how, if possible, to take advantage of a huge amount of not classified data, to perform classification, in situations when, typically, the labelled data are few. Even though this is not…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Alejandro Cholaquidis , Ricardo Fraiman , Mariela Sued

A novel semi-supervised learning technique is introduced based on a simple iterative learning cycle together with learned thresholding techniques and an ensemble decision support system. State-of-the-art model performance and increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Robert Dupre , Jiri Fajtl , Vasileios Argyriou , Paolo Remagnin

Deep supervised learning has achieved great success in the last decade. However, its deficiencies of dependence on manual labels and vulnerability to attacks have driven people to explore a better solution. As an alternative,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Xiao Liu , Fanjin Zhang , Zhenyu Hou , Zhaoyu Wang , Li Mian , Jing Zhang , Jie Tang

In this paper, we propose another version of help-training approach by employing a Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) that improves the performance of the main discriminative classifier in the semi-supervised strategy. We introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Hamidreza Farhidzadeh

Unsupervised learning methods have a soft inspiration in cognition models. To this day, the most successful unsupervised learning methods revolve around clustering samples in a mathematical space. In this paper we propose a primitive-based,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alfredo Ibias , Hector Antona , Guillem Ramirez-Miranda , Enric Guinovart , Eduard Alarcon

We consider a family of problems that are concerned about making predictions for the majority of unlabeled, graph-structured data samples based on a small proportion of labeled samples. Relational information among the data samples, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jiaqi Ma , Weijing Tang , Ji Zhu , Qiaozhu Mei

We present a novel semi-supervised approach for sequence transduction and apply it to semantic parsing. The unsupervised component is based on a generative model in which latent sentences generate the unpaired logical forms. We apply this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Tomáš Kočiský , Gábor Melis , Edward Grefenstette , Chris Dyer , Wang Ling , Phil Blunsom , Karl Moritz Hermann

We address the problem of learning of continuous exponential family distributions with unbounded support. While a lot of progress has been made on learning of Gaussian graphical models, we still lack scalable algorithms for reconstructing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Christopher X. Ren , Sidhant Misra , Marc Vuffray , Andrey Y. Lokhov

Sequential sensor data is generated in a wide variety of practical applications. A fundamental challenge involves learning effective classifiers for such sequential data. While deep learning has led to impressive performance gains in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Nauman Ahad , Mark A. Davenport

Semi-supervised learning is a model training method that uses both labeled and unlabeled data. This paper proposes a fully Bayes semi-supervised learning algorithm that can be applied to any multi-category classification problem. We assume…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-22 Rui Zhu , Shuvrarghya Ghosh , Subhashis Ghosal

Semi-supervised learning aims to learn prediction models from both labeled and unlabeled samples. There has been extensive research in this area. Among existing work, generative mixture models with Expectation-Maximization (EM) is a popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Wenchong He , Zhe Jiang

In many real-world scenarios, labeled data for a specific machine learning task is costly to obtain. Semi-supervised training methods make use of abundantly available unlabeled data and a smaller number of labeled examples. We propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Philip Häusser , Alexander Mordvintsev , Daniel Cremers

In this paper, we present a graph-based semi-supervised framework for hyperspectral image classification. We first introduce a novel superpixel algorithm based on the spectral covariance matrix representation of pixels to provide a better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Philip Sellars , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Nicolas Papadakis , David Coomes , Anita Faul , Carola-Bibane Schönlieb

We propose a new framework for binary classification in transfer learning settings where both covariate and label distributions may shift between source and target domains. Unlike traditional covariate shift or label shift assumptions, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-29 Manli Cheng , Subha Maity , Qinglong Tian , Pengfei Li

We present a novel approach to semi-supervised learning which is based on statistical physics. Most of the former work in the field of semi-supervised learning classifies the points by minimizing a certain energy function, which corresponds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gad Getz , Noam Shental , Eytan Domany

This paper proposes a latent space energy-based prior model for semi-supervised learning. The model stands on a generator network that maps a latent vector to the observed example. The energy term of the prior model couples the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bo Pang , Erik Nijkamp , Jiali Cui , Tian Han , Ying Nian Wu