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The recent success of learning-based algorithms can be greatly attributed to the immense amount of annotated data used for training. Yet, many datasets lack annotations due to the high costs associated with labeling, resulting in degraded…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Dana Cohen Hochberg , Hayit Greenspan , Raja Giryes

In many applications, training machine learning models involves using large amounts of human-annotated data. Obtaining precise labels for the data is expensive. Instead, training with weak supervision provides a low-cost alternative. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

Deep learning usually achieves the best results with complete supervision. In the case of semantic segmentation, this means that large amounts of pixelwise annotations are required to learn accurate models. In this paper, we show that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yi Zhu , Zhongyue Zhang , Chongruo Wu , Zhi Zhang , Tong He , Hang Zhang , R. Manmatha , Mu Li , Alexander Smola

Given a sample of size $N$, it is often useful to select a subsample of smaller size $n<N$ to be used for statistical estimation or learning. Such a data selection step is useful to reduce the requirements of data labeling and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-05 Germain Kolossov , Andrea Montanari , Pulkit Tandon

Data augmentation by incorporating cheap unlabeled data from multiple domains is a powerful way to improve prediction especially when there is limited labeled data. In this work, we investigate how adversarial robustness can be enhanced by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Zhun Deng , Linjun Zhang , Amirata Ghorbani , James Zou

Annotation cost is a bottleneck for collecting massive data in mammography, especially for training deep neural networks. In this paper, we study the use of heterogeneous levels of annotation granularity to improve predictive performances.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Thi-Lam-Thuy Le , Nicolas Thome , Sylvain Bernard , Vincent Bismuth , Fanny Patoureaux

This paper considers the problem of inferring image labels from images when only a few annotated examples are available at training time. This setup is often referred to as low-shot learning, where a standard approach is to re-train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Matthijs Douze , Arthur Szlam , Bharath Hariharan , Hervé Jégou

Endoscopy is a widely used imaging modality to diagnose and treat diseases in hollow organs as for example the gastrointestinal tract, the kidney and the liver. However, due to varied modalities and use of different imaging protocols at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Sharib Ali , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim , Jens Rittscher

Annotating multi-class instances is a crucial task in the field of machine learning. Unfortunately, identifying the correct class label from a long sequence of candidate labels is time-consuming and laborious. To alleviate this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Meng Wei , Zhongnian Li , Yong Zhou , Qiaoyu Guo , Xinzheng Xu

Modern machine learning pipelines, in particular those based on deep learning (DL) models, require large amounts of labeled data. For classification problems, the most common learning paradigm consists of presenting labeled examples during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jacopo Teneggi , Paul H. Yi , Jeremias Sulam

Selecting informative data points for expert feedback can significantly improve the performance of anomaly detection (AD) in various contexts, such as medical diagnostics or fraud detection. In this paper, we determine a set of theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Aodong Li , Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Padhraic Smyth , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

In medical imaging, inter-observer variability among radiologists often introduces label uncertainty, particularly in modalities where visual interpretation is subjective. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a prime example-it frequently presents a…

Despite that deep learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance for medical image segmentation, its success relies on a large set of manually annotated images for training that are expensive to acquire. In this paper, we propose an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Lu Wang , Dong Guo , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Imperfections in data annotation, known as label noise, are detrimental to the training of machine learning models and have an often-overlooked confounding effect on the assessment of model performance. Nevertheless, employing experts to…

Most positive and unlabeled data is subject to selection biases. The labeled examples can, for example, be selected from the positive set because they are easier to obtain or more obviously positive. This paper investigates how learning can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Jessa Bekker , Pieter Robberechts , Jesse Davis

Compressing deep networks is essential to expand their range of applications to constrained settings. The need for compression however often arises long after the model was trained, when the original data might no longer be available. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jean-Michel Begon , Pierre Geurts

Data is the engine of modern computer vision, which necessitates collecting large-scale datasets. This is expensive, and guaranteeing the quality of the labels is a major challenge. In this paper, we investigate efficient annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yuan-Hong Liao , Amlan Kar , Sanja Fidler

Despite the empirical advances of deep learning across a variety of learning tasks, our theoretical understanding of its success is still very restricted. One of the key challenges is the overparametrized nature of modern models, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Sotiris Anagnostidis , Gregor Bachmann , Lorenzo Noci , Thomas Hofmann

Recent success of large-scale pre-trained language models crucially hinge on fine-tuning them on large amounts of labeled data for the downstream task, that are typically expensive to acquire. In this work, we study self-training as one of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Subhabrata Mukherjee , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

In this work, we improve the accuracy of several known algorithms to address the classification of large datasets when few labels are available. Our framework lies in the realm of graph-based semi-supervised learning. With novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Farid Bozorgnia