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This paper proposes a novel pseudo-labeling method for medical image segmentation that can perform learning on ``individual images'' to select effective pseudo-labels. We introduce Positive and Unlabeled Learning (PU learning), which uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Takehiro Yamane , Itaru Tsuge , Susumu Saito , Ryoma Bise

Positive-unlabeled learning (PU learning) in hyperspectral remote sensing imagery (HSI) is aimed at learning a binary classifier from positive and unlabeled data, which has broad prospects in various earth vision applications. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hengwei Zhao , Xinyu Wang , Jingtao Li , Yanfei Zhong

As with other deep learning methods, label quality is important for learning modern convolutional object detectors. However, the potentially large number and wide diversity of object instances that can be found in complex image scenes makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yuewei Yang , Kevin J Liang , Lawrence Carin

Self-supervised pretraining on unlabeled data followed by supervised fine-tuning on labeled data is a popular paradigm for learning from limited labeled examples. We extend this paradigm to the classical positive unlabeled (PU) setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Anish Acharya , Sujay Sanghavi , Li Jing , Bhargav Bhushanam , Dhruv Choudhary , Michael Rabbat , Inderjit Dhillon

Pretext Invariant Representation Learning (PIRL) followed by Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) has become a standard paradigm for learning with limited labels. We extend this approach to the Positive Unlabeled (PU) setting, where only a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Anish Acharya , Li Jing , Bhargav Bhushanam , Dhruv Choudhary , Michael Rabbat , Sujay Sanghavi , Inderjit S Dhillon

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning aims to learn a model with rare positive samples and abundant unlabeled samples. Compared with classical binary classification, the task of PU learning is much more challenging due to the existence of many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Shijie Zhang , Lijie Jia , Yanwei Fu

In binary classification, there are situations where negative (N) data are too diverse to be fully labeled and we often resort to positive-unlabeled (PU) learning in these scenarios. However, collecting a non-representative N set that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Yu-Guan Hsieh , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

This study proposes a novel approach for solving the PU learning problem based on an anomaly-detection strategy. Latent encodings extracted from positive-labeled data are linearly combined to acquire new samples. These new samples are used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Vasileios Sevetlidis , George Pavlidis , Spyridon Mouroutsos , Antonios Gasteratos

Positive-unlabeled (PU) learning addresses binary classification when only a set of labeled positives is available alongside a pool of unlabeled samples drawn from a mixture of positives and negatives. Existing PU methods typically require…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Siyan Liu , Yi Chang , Manli Cheng , Qinglong Tian , Pengfei Li

In many scenarios of binary classification, only positive instances are provided in the training data, leaving the rest of the data unlabeled. This setup, known as positive-unlabeled (PU) learning, is addressed here with a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dorit Hochbaum , Torpong Nitayanont

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-Unlabelled (PU) learning is a growing area of machine learning that aims to learn classifiers from data consisting of labelled positive and unlabelled instances. Whilst much work has been done proposing methods for PU learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jack D. Saunders , Alex , A. Freitas

Hyperspectral unmixing (HU) is a very useful and increasingly popular preprocessing step for a wide range of hyperspectral applications. However, the HU research has been constrained a lot by three factors: (a) the number of hyperspectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Feiyun Zhu

Learning from positive and unlabeled data is known as positive-unlabeled (PU) learning in literature and has attracted much attention in recent years. One common approach in PU learning is to sample a set of pseudo-negatives from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Zhangchi Zhu , Lu Wang , Pu Zhao , Chao Du , Wei Zhang , Hang Dong , Bo Qiao , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning tries to learn binary classifiers from a few labeled positive examples with many unlabeled ones. Compared with ordinary semi-supervised learning, this task is much more challenging due to the absence of any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yunrui Zhao , Qianqian Xu , Yangbangyan Jiang , Peisong Wen , Qingming Huang

We propose a meta-learning method for positive and unlabeled (PU) classification, which improves the performance of binary classifiers obtained from only PU data in unseen target tasks. PU learning is an important problem since PU data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Hyperspectral imaging sensors are becoming increasingly popular in robotics applications such as agriculture and mining, and allow per-pixel thematic classification of materials in a scene based on their unique spectral signatures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Lloyd Windrim , Rishi Ramakrishnan , Arman Melkumyan , Richard Murphy

Hyperspectral images provide abundant spatial and spectral information that is very valuable for material detection in diverse areas of practical science. The high-dimensions of data lead to many processing challenges that can be addressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Saeideh Ghanbari Azar , Saeed Meshgini , Tohid Yousefi Rezaii , Soosan Beheshti

We consider the situation in which a user has collected a small set of documents on a cohesive topic, and they want to retrieve additional documents on this topic from a large collection. Information Retrieval (IR) solutions treat the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Alon Jacovi , Gang Niu , Yoav Goldberg , Masashi Sugiyama

The positive-unlabeled (PU) classification is a common scenario in real-world applications such as healthcare, text classification, and bioinformatics, in which we only observe a few samples labeled as "positive" together with a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Ke Ren , Haichuan Yang , Yu Zhao , Mingshan Xue , Hongyu Miao , Shuai Huang , Ji Liu
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