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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

Node classification on graphs is an important research problem with many applications. Real-world graph data sets may not be balanced and accurate as assumed by most existing works. A challenging setting is positive-unlabeled (PU) node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Hansi Yang , Yongqi Zhang , Quanming Yao , James Kwok

Supervised machine learning often requires large training sets to train accurate models, yet obtaining large amounts of labeled data is not always feasible. Hence, it becomes crucial to explore active learning methods for reducing the size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ashna Jose , Emilie Devijver , Massih-Reza Amini , Noel Jakse , Roberta Poloni

Self-training methods have proven to be effective in exploiting abundant unlabeled data in semi-supervised learning, particularly when labeled data is scarce. While many of these approaches rely on a cross-entropy loss function (CE), recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Aurelien Gauffre , Julien Horvat , Massih-Reza Amini

Likelihood-to-evidence ratio estimation is usually cast as either a binary (NRE-A) or a multiclass (NRE-B) classification task. In contrast to the binary classification framework, the current formulation of the multiclass version has an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-08 Benjamin Kurt Miller , Christoph Weniger , Patrick Forré

Continual learning techniques employ simple replay sample selection processes and use them during subsequent tasks. Typically, they rely on labeled data. In this paper, we depart from this by automatically selecting prototypes stored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Agil Aghasanli , Yi Li , Plamen Angelov

Graph convolutional networks produce good predictions of unlabeled samples due to its transductive label propagation. Since samples have different predicted confidences, we take high-confidence predictions as pseudo labels to expand the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Kun Zhan , Chaoxi Niu

In many predictive contexts (e.g., credit lending), true outcomes are only observed for samples that were positively classified in the past. These past observations, in turn, form training datasets for classifiers that make future…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Vijay Keswani , Anay Mehrotra , L. Elisa Celis

To alleviate the annotation burden in supervised learning, N-tuples learning has recently emerged as a powerful weakly-supervised method. While existing N-tuples learning approaches extend pairwise learning to higher-order comparisons and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-29 Shuying Huang , Junpeng Li , Changchun Hua , Yana Yang

Weakly-supervised text classification trains a classifier using the label name of each target class as the only supervision, which largely reduces human annotation efforts. Most existing methods first use the label names as static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yunyi Zhang , Minhao Jiang , Yu Meng , Yu Zhang , Jiawei Han

Preference-based reward learning is widely used for shaping agent behavior to match a user's preference, yet its sparse binary feedback makes it especially vulnerable to causal confusion. The learned reward often latches onto spurious…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Minjune Hwang , Yigit Korkmaz , Daniel Seita , Erdem Bıyık

Semi-supervised learning is the problem of training an accurate predictive model by combining a small labeled dataset with a presumably much larger unlabeled dataset. Many methods for semi-supervised deep learning have been developed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Sumeet Menon , David Chapman

Fine-tuning a pre-trained language model via the contrastive learning framework with a large amount of unlabeled sentences or labeled sentence pairs is a common way to obtain high-quality sentence representations. Although the contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Tianduo Wang , Wei Lu

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

Semi-supervised learning is a setting in which one has labeled and unlabeled data available. In this survey we explore different types of theoretical results when one uses unlabeled data in classification and regression tasks. Most methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Alexander Mey , Marco Loog

In contrast to the standard classification paradigm where the true class is given to each training pattern, complementary-label learning only uses training patterns each equipped with a complementary label, which only specifies one of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-20 Takashi Ishida , Gang Niu , Aditya Krishna Menon , Masashi Sugiyama

Class imbalance induces systematic bias in deep neural networks by imposing a skewed effective class prior. This work introduces the Neural Prior Estimator (NPE), a framework that learns feature-conditioned log-prior estimates from latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Masoud Yavari , Payman Moallem

Due to the limited amount and imbalanced classes of labeled training data, the conventional supervised learning can not ensure the discrimination of the learned feature for hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Yan Ju , Lingling Li , Licheng Jiao , Zhongle Ren , Biao Hou , Shuyuan Yang

We address the challenging problem of Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning (LTSSL) where labeled data exhibit imbalanced class distribution and unlabeled data follow an unknown distribution. Unlike in balanced SSL, the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Chengcheng Ma , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

Computational drug repositioning technology is an effective tool to accelerate drug development. Although this technique has been widely used and successful in recent decades, many existing models still suffer from multiple drawbacks such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Xinxing Yang , Genke Yang , Jian Chu