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Supervised learning needs a huge amount of labeled data, which can be a big bottleneck under the situation where there is a privacy concern or labeling cost is high. To overcome this problem, we propose a new weakly-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Han Bao , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Unlike the typical classification setting where each instance is associated with a single class, in multi-label learning each instance is associated with multiple classes simultaneously. Therefore the learning task in this setting is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Harris Papadopoulos

The F-measure, which has originally been introduced in information retrieval, is nowadays routinely used as a performance metric for problems such as binary classification, multi-label classification, and structured output prediction.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-09 Willem Waegeman , Krzysztof Dembczynski , Arkadiusz Jachnik , Weiwei Cheng , Eyke Hullermeier

In real-world applications, one often encounters ambiguously labeled data, where different annotators assign conflicting class labels. Partial-label learning allows training classifiers in this weakly supervised setting, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Tobias Fuchs , Florian Kalinke , Klemens Böhm

Recent research shows that in-context learning (ICL) can be effective even when demonstrations have missing or incorrect labels. To shed light on this capability, we examine a canonical setting where the demonstrations are drawn according…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yingcong Li , Xiangyu Chang , Muti Kara , Xiaofeng Liu , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Samet Oymak

There is a long history in machine learning of model ensembling, beginning with boosting and bagging and continuing to the present day. Much of this history has focused on combining models for classification and regression, but recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ira Globus-Harris , Varun Gupta , Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth

In this paper we analyze the graph-based approach to semi-supervised learning under a manifold assumption. We adopt a Bayesian perspective and demonstrate that, for a suitable choice of prior constructed with sufficiently many unlabeled…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Daniel Sanz-Alonso , Ruiyi Yang

Binary classification is a task that involves the classification of data into one of two distinct classes. It is widely utilized in various fields. However, conventional classifiers tend to make overconfident predictions for data that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Shoma Yokura , Akihisa Ichiki

With the proliferation of its applications in various industries, sentiment analysis by using publicly available web data has become an active research area in text classification during these years. It is argued by researchers that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-06 Jimmy SJ. Ren , Wei Wang , Jiawei Wang , Stephen Shaoyi Liao

Medical researchers have solved the problem of estimating the sensitivity and specificity of binary medical diagnostic tests without gold standard tests for comparison. That problem is the same as estimating confusion matrices for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-29 Richard Evans

It is generally believed that ensemble approaches, which combine multiple algorithms or models, can outperform any single algorithm at machine learning tasks, such as prediction. In this paper, we propose Bayesian convex and linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-07 Yun Yang , David B. Dunson

This paper attempts multi-label classification by extending the idea of independent binary classification models for each output label, and exploring how the inherent correlation between output labels can be used to improve predictions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Amit Garg , Jonathan Noyola , Romil Verma , Ashutosh Saxena , Aditya Jami

Ensemble classifier refers to a group of individual classifiers that are cooperatively trained on data set in a supervised classification problem. In this paper we present a review of commonly used ensemble classifiers in the literature.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Akhlaqur Rahman , Sumaira Tasnim

Maximizing the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is a standard approach to imbalanced classification. So far, various supervised AUC optimization methods have been developed and they are also extended to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-12 Tomoya Sakai , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Finite mixture models are an important tool in the statistical analysis of data, for example in data clustering. The optimal parameters of a mixture model are usually computed by maximizing the log-likelihood functional via the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-30 Laura Aquilanti , Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Raul De Maio

In most machine learning applications, classification accuracy is not the primary metric of interest. Binary classifiers which face class imbalance are often evaluated by the $F_\beta$ score, area under the precision-recall curve, Precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Alan Mackey , Xiyang Luo , Elad Eban

In many real-world pattern recognition scenarios, such as in medical applications, the corresponding classification tasks can be of an imbalanced nature. In the current study, we focus on binary, imbalanced classification tasks, i.e.~binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Peter Bellmann , Heinke Hihn , Daniel A. Braun , Friedhelm Schwenker

The evaluation of noisy binary classifiers on unlabeled data is treated as a streaming task: given a data sketch of the decisions by an ensemble, estimate the true prevalence of the labels as well as each classifier's accuracy on them. Two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-11 Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel

Multi-class classification methods that produce sets of probabilistic classifiers, such as ensemble learning methods, are able to model aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty. Aleatoric uncertainty is then typically quantified via the Bayes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-20 Thomas Mortier , Viktor Bengs , Eyke Hüllermeier , Stijn Luca , Willem Waegeman

The concept of a minimax classifier is well-established in statistical decision theory, but its implementation via neural networks remains challenging, particularly in scenarios with imbalanced training data having a limited number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Hansung Choi , Daewon Seo