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In this paper, we address the problem of learning a binary (positive vs. negative) classifier given Positive and Unlabeled data commonly referred to as PU learning. Although rudimentary techniques like clustering, out-of-distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Omar Zamzam , Haleh Akrami , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Richard Leahy

In this work, we explore the way to perform named entity recognition (NER) using only unlabeled data and named entity dictionaries. To this end, we formulate the task as a positive-unlabeled (PU) learning problem and accordingly propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Minlong Peng , Xiaoyu Xing , Qi Zhang , Jinlan Fu , Xuanjing Huang

In relation extraction with distant supervision, noisy labels make it difficult to train quality models. Previous neural models addressed this problem using an attention mechanism that attends to sentences that are likely to express the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Iz Beltagy , Kyle Lo , Waleed Ammar

Relation extraction is an important task in structuring content of text data, and becomes especially challenging when learning with weak supervision---where only a limited number of labeled sentences are given and a large number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hongtao Lin , Jun Yan , Meng Qu , Xiang Ren

Distant supervision for relation extraction enables one to effectively acquire structured relations out of very large text corpora with less human efforts. Nevertheless, most of the prior-art models for such tasks assume that the given text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Hongyu Guo , Jie Xu

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

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

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

Distant supervised relation extraction has been successfully applied to large corpus with thousands of relations. However, the inevitable wrong labeling problem by distant supervision will hurt the performance of relation extraction. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Shanchan Wu , Kai Fan , Qiong Zhang

Contrastive pre-training on distant supervision has shown remarkable effectiveness in improving supervised relation extraction tasks. However, the existing methods ignore the intrinsic noise of distant supervision during the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Zhen Wan , Fei Cheng , Qianying Liu , Zhuoyuan Mao , Haiyue Song , Sadao Kurohashi

PU (Positive Unlabeled) learning is a variant of supervised classification learning in which the only labels revealed to the learner are of positively labeled instances. PU learning arises in many real-world applications. Most existing work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Farnam Mansouri , Shai Ben-David

In the early history of positive-unlabeled (PU) learning, the sample selection approach, which heuristically selects negative (N) data from U data, was explored extensively. However, this approach was later dominated by the importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Miao Xu , Bingcong Li , Gang Niu , Bo Han , Masashi Sugiyama

We present an approach to minimally supervised relation extraction that combines the benefits of learned representations and structured learning, and accurately predicts sentence-level relation mentions given only proposition-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Fan Bai , Alan Ritter

Recent years have seen rapid development in Information Extraction, as well as its subtask, Relation Extraction. Relation Extraction is able to detect semantic relations between entities in sentences. Currently, many efficient approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhuang Li

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

Distant supervision for relation extraction provides uniform bag labels for each sentence inside the bag, while accurate sentence labels are important for downstream applications that need the exact relation type. Directly using bag labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ruotian Ma , Tao Gui , Linyang Li , Qi Zhang , Yaqian Zhou , Xuanjing Huang

Learning reward functions from data is a promising path towards achieving scalable Reinforcement Learning (RL) for robotics. However, a major challenge in training agents from learned reward models is that the agent can learn to exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Danfei Xu , Misha Denil

Learning from positive and unlabeled data (PU learning) is a weakly supervised variant of binary classification in which the learner receives labels only for (some) positively labeled instances, while all other examples remain unlabeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Farnam Mansouri , Sandra Zilles , Shai Ben-David

Distant supervision leverages knowledge bases to automatically label instances, thus allowing us to train relation extractor without human annotations. However, the generated training data typically contain massive noise, and may result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Yujin Yuan , Liyuan Liu , Siliang Tang , Zhongfei Zhang , Yueting Zhuang , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu , Xiang Ren

We consider the problem of learning a binary classifier from a training set of positive and unlabeled examples, both in the inductive and in the transductive setting. This problem, often referred to as \emph{PU learning}, differs from the…

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