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Unsupervised models can provide supplementary soft constraints to help classify new target data under the assumption that similar objects in the target set are more likely to share the same class label. Such models can also help detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Ayan Acharya , Eduardo R. Hruschka , Joydeep Ghosh , Badrul Sarwar , Jean-David Ruvini

Recently, pseudo label based semi-supervised learning has achieved great success in many fields. The core idea of the pseudo label based semi-supervised learning algorithm is to use the model trained on the labeled data to generate pseudo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Zeping Min , Qian Ge , Cheng Tai

Classification is an important task in many fields including biomedical research and machine learning. Traditionally, a classification rule is constructed based a bunch of labeled data. Recently, due to technological innovation and…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-19 Jing Wang , Eunsik Park , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

Much more attention has been paid to unsupervised feature selection nowadays due to the emergence of massive unlabeled data. The distribution of samples and the latent effect of training a learning method using samples in more effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Weiyi Li , Hongmei Chen , Tianrui Li , Jihong Wan , Binbin Sang

Anomaly detection is being regarded as an unsupervised learning task as anomalies stem from adversarial or unlikely events with unknown distributions. However, the predictive performance of purely unsupervised anomaly detection often fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Nico Goernitz , Marius Micha Kloft , Konrad Rieck , Ulf Brefeld

Unsupervised and supervised learning methods conventionally use kernels to capture nonlinearities inherent in data structure. However experts have to ensure their proposed nonlinearity maximizes variability and capture inherent diversity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mojtaba Moattari

Prior works have shown that semi-supervised learning algorithms can leverage unlabeled data to improve over the labeled sample complexity of supervised learning (SL) algorithms. However, existing theoretical analyses focus on regimes where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Alexandru Ţifrea , Gizem Yüce , Amartya Sanyal , Fanny Yang

Methods for split conformal prediction leverage calibration samples to transform any prediction rule into a set-prediction rule that complies with a target coverage probability. Existing methods provide remarkably strong performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Santiago Mazuelas

In this paper, we consider multi-sensor classification when there is a large number of unlabeled samples. The problem is formulated under the multi-view learning framework and a Consensus-based Multi-View Maximum Entropy Discrimination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tianpei Xie , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Alfred O. Hero

We study the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation, which aims to adapt classifiers trained on a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Many existing approaches first learn domain-invariant features and then construct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Yuan Shi , Fei Sha

Self-supervised learning algorithms based on instance discrimination train encoders to be invariant to pre-defined transformations of the same instance. While most methods treat different views of the same image as positives for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Debidatta Dwibedi , Yusuf Aytar , Jonathan Tompson , Pierre Sermanet , Andrew Zisserman

Discriminative linear models are a popular tool in machine learning. These can be generally divided into two types: The first is linear classifiers, such as support vector machines, which are well studied and provide state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Koby Crammer , Amir Globerson

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a common approach to learning predictive models using not only labeled examples, but also unlabeled examples. While SSL for the simple tasks of classification and regression has received a lot of attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jurica Levatić , Michelangelo Ceci , Dragi Kocev , Sašo Džeroski

In this paper, we investigate the problem of classifying feature vectors with mutually independent but non-identically distributed elements. First, we show the importance of this problem. Next, we propose a classifier and derive an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Farzad Shahrivari , Nikola Zlatanov

Semi-supervised learning frameworks usually adopt mutual learning approaches with multiple submodels to learn from different perspectives. To avoid transferring erroneous pseudo labels between these submodels, a high threshold is usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Hao Xu , Hui Xiao , Huazheng Hao , Li Dong , Xiaojie Qiu , Chengbin Peng

Many popular linear classifiers, such as logistic regression, boosting, or SVM, are trained by optimizing a margin-based risk function. Traditionally, these risk functions are computed based on a labeled dataset. We develop a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-07-23 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Pinar Donmez , Guy Lebanon

Twin neural network regression (TNNR) is a semi-supervised regression algorithm, it can be trained on unlabelled data points as long as other, labelled anchor data points, are present. TNNR is trained to predict differences between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Sebastian J. Wetzel , Roger G. Melko , Isaac Tamblyn

We consider the task of training classifiers without labels. We propose a weakly supervised method---adversarial label learning---that trains classifiers to perform well against an adversary that chooses labels for training data. The weak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

Unsupervised person re-identification is a challenging and promising task in computer vision. Nowadays unsupervised person re-identification methods have achieved great progress by training with pseudo labels. However, how to purify feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Long Lan , Xiao Teng , Jing Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Empirical risk minimization (ERM), with proper loss function and regularization, is the common practice of supervised classification. In this paper, we study training arbitrary (from linear to deep) binary classifier from only unlabeled (U)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-13 Nan Lu , Gang Niu , Aditya Krishna Menon , Masashi Sugiyama