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While semi-supervised learning (SSL) has received tremendous attentions in many machine learning tasks due to its successful use of unlabeled data, existing SSL algorithms use either all unlabeled examples or the unlabeled examples with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yi Xu , Lei Shang , Jinxing Ye , Qi Qian , Yu-Feng Li , Baigui Sun , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Medical imaging has witnessed remarkable progress but usually requires a large amount of high-quality annotated data which is time-consuming and costly to obtain. To alleviate this burden, semi-supervised learning has garnered attention as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Qingyue Wei , Lequan Yu , Xianhang Li , Wei Shao , Cihang Xie , Lei Xing , Yuyin Zhou

Self-supervised metric learning has been a successful approach for learning a distance from an unlabeled dataset. The resulting distance is broadly useful for improving various distance-based downstream tasks, even when no information from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-18 Shulei Wang

In this paper, we present a novel two-stage metric learning algorithm. We first map each learning instance to a probability distribution by computing its similarities to a set of fixed anchor points. Then, we define the distance in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Jun Wang , Ke Sun , Fei Sha , Stephane Marchand-Maillet , Alexandros Kalousis

Semi-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for leveraging large amounts of unlabeled data to improve the performance of machine learning models when labeled data are scarce. Among existing approaches, methods derived from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ali Aghababaei-Harandi , Aude Sportisse , Massih-Reza Amini

Due to the growing ubiquity of unlabeled data, learning with unlabeled data is attracting increasing attention in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised kernel learning method which can seamlessly combine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Qi Mao , Ivor W. Tsang

We study the problem of semi-supervised learning on graphs in the regime where data labels are scarce or possibly corrupted. We propose an approach called $p$-conductance learning that generalizes the $p$-Laplace and Poisson learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sawyer Jack Robertson , Chester Holtz , Zhengchao Wan , Gal Mishne , Alexander Cloninger

Scarcity of labeled data has motivated the development of semi-supervised learning methods, which learn from large portions of unlabeled data alongside a few labeled samples. Consistency Regularization between model's predictions under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Aamir Mustafa , Rafal K. Mantiuk

Graph-based semi-supervised learning usually involves two separate stages, constructing an affinity graph and then propagating labels for transductive inference on the graph. It is suboptimal to solve them independently, as the correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Qilin Li , Senjian An , Ling Li , Wanquan Liu

Background: Most of the existing machine learning models for security tasks, such as spam detection, malware detection, or network intrusion detection, are built on supervised machine learning algorithms. In such a paradigm, models need a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Rui Shu , Tianpei Xia , Huy Tu , Laurie Williams , Tim Menzies

We introduce a new approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning based on the recognition-parametrised model (RPM): a normalised semi-parametric hypothesis class for joint distributions over observed and latent variables. Under the key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 William I. Walker , Hugo Soulat , Changmin Yu , Maneesh Sahani

Semi-supervised learning an attractive technique in practical deployments of deep models since it relaxes the dependence on labeled data. It is especially important in the scope of dense prediction because pixel-level annotation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Ivan Grubišić , Marin Oršić , Siniša Šegvić

Parametric approaches to Learning, such as deep learning (DL), are highly popular in nonlinear regression, in spite of their extremely difficult training with their increasing complexity (e.g. number of layers in DL). In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

Pseudo-labeling is a commonly used paradigm in semi-supervised learning, yet its application to semi-supervised regression (SSR) remains relatively under-explored. Unlike classification, where pseudo-labels are discrete and confidence-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xueqing Sun , Renzhen Wang , Quanziang Wang , Yichen Wu , Xixi Jia , Deyu Meng

We present a semi-supervised method for panoptic segmentation based on ConsInstancy regularisation, a novel strategy for semi-supervised learning. It leverages completely unlabelled data by enforcing consistency between predicted instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Max Coenen , Tobias Schack , Dries Beyer , Christian Heipke , Michael Haist

Maximum entropy principle (MEP) offers an effective and unbiased approach to inferring unknown probability distributions when faced with incomplete information, while neural networks provide the flexibility to learn complex distributions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-04 Wuyue Yang , Liangrong Peng , Guojie Li , Liu Hong

When the predicted sequence length exceeds the length seen during training, the transformer's inference accuracy diminishes. Existing relative position encoding methods, such as those based on the ALiBi technique, address the length…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Weiguo Gao

In modern scientific applications, large volumes of covariate data are readily available, while outcome labels are costly, sparse, and often subject to distribution shift. This asymmetry has spurred interest in semi-supervised (SS)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Lorenzo Testa , Qi Xu , Jing Lei , Kathryn Roeder

Scientific and engineering processes deliver massive high-dimensional data sets that are generated as non-linear transformations of an initial state and few process parameters. Mapping such data to a low-dimensional manifold facilitates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-07 Frank Schoeneman , Varun Chandola , Nils Napp , Olga Wodo , Jaroslaw Zola

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an indispensable tool when there are few labeled entities and many unlabeled entities for which we want to predict labels. With graph-based methods, entities correspond to nodes in a graph and edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Edith Cohen