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In this work, we investigate semi-supervised learning (SSL) for image classification using adversarial training. Previous results have illustrated that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used for multiple purposes. Triple-GAN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Wenyuan Li , Zichen Wang , Yuguang Yue , Jiayun Li , William Speier , Mingyuan Zhou , Corey W. Arnold

With the increasing application of machine learning in high-stake decision-making problems, potential algorithmic bias towards people from certain social groups poses negative impacts on individuals and our society at large. In the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ziwei Wu , Jingrui He

We introduce a method to stabilize Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by defining the generator objective with respect to an unrolled optimization of the discriminator. This allows training to be adjusted between using the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Luke Metz , Ben Poole , David Pfau , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Domain Adaptation methodologies have shown to effectively generalize from a labeled source domain to a label scarce target domain. Previous research has either focused on unlabeled domain adaptation without any target supervision or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Jonas Sonntag , Gunnar Behrens , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

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

The binary classification problem has a situation where only biased data are observed in one of the classes. In this paper, we propose a new method to approach the positive and biased negative (PbN) classification problem, which is a weakly…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-28 Shotaro Watanabe , Hidetoshi Matsui

Positive and Unlabeled (PU) learning is a type of semi-supervised binary classification where the machine learning algorithm differentiates between a set of positive instances (labeled) and a set of both positive and negative instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Praveen Kumar , Christophe G. Lambert

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

Motivated by applications in protein function prediction, we consider a challenging supervised classification setting in which positive labels are scarce and there are no explicit negative labels. The learning algorithm must thus select…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Marco Frasca , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

GANs involve training two networks in an adversarial game, where each network's task depends on its adversary. Recently, several works have framed GAN training as an online or continual learning problem. We focus on the discriminator, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Ting Chen , Xiaohua Zhai , Neil Houlsby

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) extend the standard unconditional GAN framework to learning joint data-label distributions from samples, and have been established as powerful generative models capable of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ligong Han , Martin Renqiang Min , Anastasis Stathopoulos , Yu Tian , Ruijiang Gao , Asim Kadav , Dimitris Metaxas

In standard generative adversarial network (SGAN), the discriminator estimates the probability that the input data is real. The generator is trained to increase the probability that fake data is real. We argue that it should also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau

We investigate and characterize the inherent resilience of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) against noise in their conditioning labels, and exploit this fact in the context of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA). In UDA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Pietro Morerio , Riccardo Volpi , Ruggero Ragonesi , Vittorio Murino

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are widely used in image generation tasks, yet the generated images are usually lack of texture details. In this paper, we propose a general framework, called Progressively Unfreezing Perceptual GAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Jinxuan Sun , Yang Chen , Junyu Dong , Guoqiang Zhong

This study introduces a new approach to addressing positive and unlabeled (PU) data through the double exponential tilting model (DETM). Traditional methods often fall short because they only apply to selected completely at random (SCAR) PU…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-25 Siyan Liu , Chi-Kuang Yeh , Xin Zhang , Qinglong Tian , Pengfei Li

Class imbalance is an inherent problem in many machine learning classification tasks. This often leads to trained models that are unusable for any practical purpose. In this study we explore an unsupervised approach to address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ademola Okerinde , Lior Shamir , William Hsu , Tom Theis , Nasik Nafi

We develop a classification algorithm for estimating posterior distributions from positive-unlabeled data, that is robust to noise in the positive labels and effective for high-dimensional data. In recent years, several algorithms have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-02 Shantanu Jain , Martha White , Predrag Radivojac

We introduce the Probabilistic Generative Adversarial Network (PGAN), a new GAN variant based on a new kind of objective function. The central idea is to integrate a probabilistic model (a Gaussian Mixture Model, in our case) into the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

Positive-unlabeled learning (PU learning) is known as a special case of semi-supervised binary classification where only a fraction of positive examples are labeled. The challenge is then to find the correct classifier despite this lack of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Olivier Coudray , Christine Keribin , Pascal Massart , Patrick Pamphile

We address the issue of binary classification from positive and unlabeled data (PU classification) with a selection bias in the positive data. During the observation process, (i) a sample is exposed to a user, (ii) the user then returns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Masahiro Kato , Shuting Wu , Kodai Kureishi , Shota Yasui