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In this work, we propose a simple yet effective meta-learning algorithm in semi-supervised learning. We notice that most existing consistency-based approaches suffer from overfitting and limited model generalization ability, especially when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Xin-Yu Zhang , Taihong Xiao , Haolin Jia , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This article addresses the problem of classification method based on both labeled and unlabeled data, where we assume that a density function for labeled data is different from that for unlabeled data. We propose a semi-supervised logistic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-20 Shuichi Kawano

Self-training, a semi-supervised learning algorithm, leverages a large amount of unlabeled data to improve learning when the labeled data are limited. Despite empirical successes, its theoretical characterization remains elusive. To the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinjun Xiong

In this paper, we address a complex but practical scenario in semi-supervised learning (SSL) named open-set SSL, where unlabeled data contain both in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) samples. Unlike previous methods that only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Ganlong Zhao , Guanbin Li , Yipeng Qin , Jinjin Zhang , Zhenhua Chai , Xiaolin Wei , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

We explore a novel approach to semi-supervised learning. This approach is contrary to the common approach in that the unlabeled examples serve to "muffle," rather than enhance, the guidance provided by the labeled examples. We provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Akshay Balsubramani , Yoav Freund

State-of-the-art deep learning models are often trained with a large amount of costly labeled training data. However, requiring exhaustive manual annotations may degrade the model's generalizability in the limited-label regime.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yanbei Chen , Massimiliano Mancini , Xiatian Zhu , Zeynep Akata

In Semi-Supervised Semi-Private (SP) learning, the learner has access to both public unlabelled and private labelled data. We propose a computationally efficient algorithm that, under mild assumptions on the data, provably achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Francesco Pinto , Yaxi Hu , Fanny Yang , Amartya Sanyal

Labeled data used for training activity recognition classifiers are usually limited in terms of size and diversity. Thus, the learned model may not generalize well when used in real-world use cases. Semi-supervised learning augments labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Ming Zeng , Tong Yu , Xiao Wang , Le T. Nguyen , Ole J. Mengshoel , Ian Lane

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) constructs classifiers using both labelled and unlabelled data. It leverages information from labelled samples, whose acquisition is often costly or labour-intensive, together with unlabelled data to enhance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Jinran Wu , You-Gan Wang , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) aims to train a machine learning model using both labelled and unlabelled data. While the unlabelled data have been used in various ways to improve the prediction accuracy, the reason why unlabelled data could…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Archer Moore , Heejung Shim , Jingge Zhu , Mingming Gong

The incorporation of unlabeled data in regression and classification analysis is an increasing focus of the applied statistics and machine learning literatures, with a number of recent examples demonstrating the potential for unlabeled data…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-09-29 Feng Liang , Sayan Mukherjee , Mike West

A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kyle Hsu , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

There has been an increasing interest in semi-supervised learning in the recent years because of the great number of datasets with a large number of unlabeled data but only a few labeled samples. Semi-supervised learning algorithms can work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Pedro H. M. Braga , Hansenclever F. Bassani

We consider statistical inference under a semi-supervised setting where we have access to both a labeled dataset consisting of pairs $\{X_i, Y_i \}_{i=1}^n$ and an unlabeled dataset $\{ X_i \}_{i=n+1}^{n+N}$. We ask the question: under what…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Zichun Xu , Daniela Witten , Ali Shojaie

In order to train robust deep learning models, large amounts of labelled data is required. However, in the absence of such large repositories of labelled data, unlabeled data can be exploited for the same. Semi-Supervised learning aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Soumyadeep Ghosh , Sanjay Kumar , Janu Verma , Awanish Kumar

Despite significant advances, the performance of state-of-the-art continual learning approaches hinges on the unrealistic scenario of fully labeled data. In this paper, we tackle this challenge and propose an approach for continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhiqi Kang , Enrico Fini , Moin Nabi , Elisa Ricci , Karteek Alahari

Semi-supervised learning methods can train high-accuracy machine learning models with a fraction of the labeled training samples required for traditional supervised learning. Such methods do not typically involve close review of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Marissa Connor , Vincent Emanuele

Common machine learning settings range from supervised tasks, where accurately labeled data is accessible, through semi-supervised and weakly-supervised tasks, where target labels are scant or noisy, to unsupervised tasks where labels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yogev Kriger , Shai Fine

This work proposes a novel method for semi-supervised learning from partially labeled massive network-structured datasets, i.e., big data over networks. We model the underlying hypothesis, which relates data points to labels, as a graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Alexander Jung , Alfred O. Hero , Alexandru Mara , Saeed Jahromi

Compared to supervised learning, semi-supervised learning reduces the dependence of deep learning on a large number of labeled samples. In this work, we use a small number of labeled samples and perform data augmentation on unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Qiuyu Zhu , Tiantian Li