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Currently, machine learning techniques have seen significant success across various applications. Most of these techniques rely on supervision from human-generated labels or a mixture of noisy and imprecise labels from multiple sources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yanbo Wang , Wenyu Chen , Shimin Shan

This study proposes a supervised learning method that does not rely on labels. We use variables associated with the label as indirect labels, and construct an indirect physics-constrained loss based on the physical mechanism to train the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-30 Yuntian Chen , Dongxiao Zhang

Creating labeled training sets has become one of the major roadblocks in machine learning. To address this, recent \emph{Weak Supervision (WS)} frameworks synthesize training labels from multiple potentially noisy supervision sources.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jieyu Zhang , Bohan Wang , Xiangchen Song , Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Jing Bai , Alexander Ratner

We consider the problem of anomaly detection with a small set of partially labeled anomaly examples and a large-scale unlabeled dataset. This is a common scenario in many important applications. Existing related methods either exclusively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Guansong Pang , Anton van den Hengel , Chunhua Shen , Longbing Cao

Few-shot learning and self-supervised learning address different facets of the same problem: how to train a model with little or no labeled data. Few-shot learning aims for optimization methods and models that can learn efficiently to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Nikos Komodakis , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

We present a probabilistic modeling and inference framework for discriminative analysis dictionary learning under a weak supervision setting. Dictionary learning approaches have been widely used for tasks such as low-level signal denoising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-09 Zeyu You , Raviv Raich , Xiaoli Z. Fern , Jinsub Kim

In many real-world scenarios, obtaining large amounts of labeled data can be a daunting task. Weakly supervised learning techniques have gained significant attention in recent years as an alternative to traditional supervised learning, as…

Semi-supervised learning, i.e. jointly learning from labeled and unlabeled samples, is an active research topic due to its key role on relaxing human supervision. In the context of image classification, recent advances to learn from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Eric Arazo , Diego Ortego , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

The availability of labelled data is one of the main limitations in machine learning. We can alleviate this using weak supervision: a framework that uses expert-defined rules $\boldsymbol{\lambda}$ to estimate probabilistic labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Samantha Biegel , Rafah El-Khatib , Luiz Otavio Vilas Boas Oliveira , Max Baak , Nanne Aben

Owing to the prohibitive costs of generating large amounts of labeled data, programmatic weak supervision is a growing paradigm within machine learning. In this setting, users design heuristics that provide noisy labels for subsets of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Dylan Sam , J. Zico Kolter

This paper discusses the problem of weakly supervised classification, in which instances are given weak labels that are produced by some label-corruption process. The goal is to derive conditions under which loss functions for weak-label…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-14 Shuhei M. Yoshida , Takashi Takenouchi , Masashi Sugiyama

Semi-supervised learning and weakly supervised learning are important paradigms that aim to reduce the growing demand for labeled data in current machine learning applications. In this paper, we introduce a novel analysis of the classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Rattana Pukdee , Dylan Sam , Maria-Florina Balcan , Pradeep Ravikumar

The classic teacher-student model in machine learning posits that a strong teacher supervises a weak student to improve the student's capabilities. We instead consider the inverted situation, where a weak teacher supervises a strong student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 David X. Wu , Anant Sahai

Transfer learning is a powerful way to adapt existing deep learning models to new emerging use-cases in remote sensing. Starting from a neural network already trained for semantic segmentation, we propose to modify its label space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Gaston Lenczner , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Nicola Luminari , Bertrand Le Saux

Multi-label image classification, which can be categorized into label-dependency and region-based methods, is a challenging problem due to the complex underlying object layouts. Although region-based methods are less likely to encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jiawei Zhan , Jun Liu , Wei Tang , Guannan Jiang , Xi Wang , Bin-Bin Gao , Tianliang Zhang , Wenlong Wu , Wei Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yuan Xie

Understanding sleep and activity patterns plays a crucial role in physical and mental health. This study introduces a novel approach for sleep detection using weakly supervised learning for scenarios where reliable ground truth labels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Matthias Boeker , Vajira Thambawita , Michael Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Hugo L. Hammer

Aggregating multiple sources of weak supervision (WS) can ease the data-labeling bottleneck prevalent in many machine learning applications, by replacing the tedious manual collection of ground truth labels. Current state of the art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Salva Rühling Cachay , Benedikt Boecking , Artur Dubrawski

Partial-label learning is a kind of weakly-supervised learning with inexact labels, where for each training example, we are given a set of candidate labels instead of only one true label. Recently, various approaches on partial-label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Zhenguo Wu , Jiaqi Lv , Masashi Sugiyama

Object detection is an import task of computer vision.A variety of methods have been proposed,but methods using the weak labels still do not have a satisfactory result.In this paper,we propose a new framework that using the weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Ke Yang , Dongsheng Li , Yong Dou , Shaohe Lv , Qiang Wang

The field of Weakly Supervised Learning (WSL) has recently seen a surge of popularity, with numerous papers addressing different types of "supervision deficiencies", namely: poor quality, non adaptability, and insufficient quantity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Pierre Nodet , Vincent Lemaire , Alexis Bondu , Antoine Cornuéjols