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For classification tasks, deep neural networks are prone to overfitting in the presence of label noise. Although existing methods are able to alleviate this problem at low noise levels, they encounter significant performance reduction at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jingyi Xu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Kai Fong Ernest Chong

Positive-unlabeled learning (PUL) aims at learning a binary classifier from only positive and unlabeled training data. Even though real-world applications often involve imbalanced datasets where the majority of examples belong to one class,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Emilio Dorigatti , Jann Goschenhofer , Benjamin Schubert , Mina Rezaei , Bernd Bischl

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning addresses classification problems where only a subset of positive examples is labeled and the remaining data is unlabeled, making explicit negative supervision unavailable. Existing PU methods often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Vasileios Sevetlidis , George Pavlidis , Antonios Gasteratos

Positive and Unlabeled (PU) learning, a binary classification model trained with only positive and unlabeled data, generally suffers from overfitted risk estimation due to inconsistent data distributions. To address this, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Chengjie Wang , Chengming Xu , Zhenye Gan , Jianlong Hu , Wenbing Zhu , Lizhuag Ma

Positive-unlabeled (PU) learning trains a binary classifier using only positive and unlabeled data. A common simplifying assumption is that the positive data is representative of the target positive class. This assumption rarely holds in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zayd Hammoudeh , Daniel Lowd

When dealing with binary classification of data with only one labeled class data scientists employ two main approaches, namely One-Class (OC) classification and Positive Unlabeled (PU) learning. The former only learns from labeled positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Farid Bagirov , Dmitry Ivanov , Aleksei Shpilman

The recently proposed unlabeled-unlabeled (UU) classification method allows us to train a binary classifier only from two unlabeled datasets with different class priors. Since this method is based on the empirical risk minimization, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Nan Lu , Tianyi Zhang , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

From only positive (P) and unlabeled (U) data, a binary classifier could be trained with PU learning, in which the state of the art is unbiased PU learning. However, if its model is very flexible, empirical risks on training data will go…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Ryuichi Kiryo , Gang Niu , Marthinus C. du Plessis , Masashi Sugiyama

Automated code vulnerability detection has gained increasing attention in recent years. The deep learning (DL)-based methods, which implicitly learn vulnerable code patterns, have proven effective in vulnerability detection. The performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xin-Cheng Wen , Xinchen Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Shaohua Wang , Yang Liu , Zhaoquan Gu

We consider the problem of learning a binary classifier from only positive and unlabeled observations (called PU learning). Recent studies in PU learning have shown superior performance theoretically and empirically. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-21 Yongchan Kwon , Wonyoung Kim , Masashi Sugiyama , Myunghee Cho Paik

Many real-world applications have to tackle the Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning problem, i.e., learning binary classifiers from a large amount of unlabeled data and a few labeled positive examples. While current state-of-the-art methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Xuxi Chen , Wuyang Chen , Tianlong Chen , Ye Yuan , Chen Gong , Kewei Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Learning from positive and unlabeled data (PU learning) is actively researched machine learning task. The goal is to train a binary classification model based on a training dataset containing part of positives which are labeled, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-29 Wojciech Rejchel , Paweł Teisseyre , Jan Mielniczuk

Positive-unlabeled learning refers to the process of training a binary classifier using only positive and unlabeled data. Although unlabeled data can contain positive data, all unlabeled data are regarded as negative data in existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Daiki Tanaka , Daiki Ikami , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Semi-supervised anomaly detection, which aims to improve the anomaly detection performance by using a small amount of labeled anomaly data in addition to unlabeled data, has attracted attention. Existing semi-supervised approaches assume…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Hiroshi Takahashi , Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai , Yuuki Yamanaka

Traditional semi-supervised learning uses only labeled instances to train a classifier and then this classifier is utilized to classify unlabeled instances, while sometimes there are only positive instances which are elements of the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-28 TingTing Li , WeiYa Fan , YunSong Luo

Planning for a wide range of real-world tasks necessitates to know and write all constraints. However, instances exist where these constraints are either unknown or challenging to specify accurately. A possible solution is to infer the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Baiyu Peng , Aude Billard

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning presents unique challenges due to the lack of explicitly labeled negative samples, particularly in high-stakes domains such as fraud detection and medical diagnosis. To address data scarcity and privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-17 Jialei Liu , Jun Liao , Kuangnan Fang

This paper defines a positive and unlabeled classification problem for standard GANs, which then leads to a novel technique to stabilize the training of the discriminator in GANs. Traditionally, real data are taken as positive while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Tianyu Guo , Chang Xu , Jiajun Huang , Yunhe Wang , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao

Unsupervised image clustering methods often introduce alternative objectives to indirectly train the model and are subject to faulty predictions and overconfident results. To overcome these challenges, the current research proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Sundong Kim , Danu Kim , Sungkyu Park , Seunghoon Hong , Meeyoung Cha

Complementary-label learning is a weakly supervised learning problem in which each training example is associated with one or multiple complementary labels indicating the classes to which it does not belong. Existing consistent approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Wei Wang , Takashi Ishida , Yu-Jie Zhang , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama