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It has been demonstrated that deep neural networks outperform traditional machine learning. However, deep networks lack generalisability, that is, they will not perform as good as in a new (testing) set drawn from a different distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Bruno Casella , Alessio Barbaro Chisari , Sebastiano Battiato , Mario Valerio Giuffrida

This paper addresses the critical challenge of unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a setting that has received far less attention than its horizontal counterpart. Specifically, we propose the first method tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hanlin Gu , Hong Xi Tae , Lixin Fan , Chee Seng Chan

Recently slot filling has witnessed great development thanks to deep learning and the availability of large-scale annotated data. However, it poses a critical challenge to handle a novel domain whose samples are never seen during training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yuanjun Shi , Linzhi Wu , Minglai Shao

Automatic transfer of text between domains has become popular in recent times. One of its aims is to preserve the semantic content of text being translated from source to target domain. However, it does not explicitly maintain other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap , Devamanyu Hazarika , Min-Yen Kan , Roger Zimmermann , Soujanya Poria

Representing a true label as a one-hot vector is a common practice in training text classification models. However, the one-hot representation may not adequately reflect the relation between the instances and labels, as labels are often not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Biyang Guo , Songqiao Han , Xiao Han , Hailiang Huang , Ting Lu

List-wise learning to rank methods are considered to be the state-of-the-art. One of the major problems with these methods is that the ambiguous nature of relevance labels in learning to rank data is ignored. Ambiguity of relevance labels…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Rolf Jagerman , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke

The goal of transfer learning is to improve the performance of target learning task by leveraging information (or transferring knowledge) from other related tasks. In this paper, we examine the problem of transfer distance metric learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Yong Luo , Yonggang Wen , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao

We introduce ANTIDOTE, a new class of objectives for learning under noisy labels which are defined in terms of a relaxation over an information-divergence neighborhood. Using convex duality, we provide a reformulation as an adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jeremiah Birrell , Reza Ebrahimi

Despite being robust to small amounts of label noise, convolutional neural networks trained with stochastic gradient methods have been shown to easily fit random labels. When there are a mixture of correct and mislabelled targets, networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Eric Arazo , Diego Ortego , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

The recent success of deep neural networks relies on massive amounts of labeled data. For a target task where labeled data is unavailable, domain adaptation can transfer a learner from a different source domain. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Mingsheng Long , Han Zhu , Jianmin Wang , Michael I. Jordan

We propose a novel adaptive transfer learning framework, learning to transfer learn (L2TL), to improve performance on a target dataset by careful extraction of the related information from a source dataset. Our framework considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Linchao Zhu , Sercan O. Arik , Yi Yang , Tomas Pfister

Semi-supervised learning has been an effective paradigm for leveraging unlabeled data to reduce the reliance on labeled data. We propose CoMatch, a new semi-supervised learning method that unifies dominant approaches and addresses their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Junnan Li , Caiming Xiong , Steven Hoi

Multi-label classification (MLC) refers to the problem of tagging a given instance with a set of relevant labels. Most existing MLC methods are based on the assumption that the correlation of two labels in each label pair is symmetric,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Xingyu Zhao , Yuexuan An , Lei Qi , Xin Geng

Label noise is ubiquitous in real-world scenarios, posing a practical challenge to supervised models due to its effect in hurting the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Existing methods primarily employ the sample selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mengmeng Sheng , Zeren Sun , Tao Chen , Shuchao Pang , Yucheng Wang , Yazhou Yao

Semi-supervised learning is becoming increasingly important because it can combine data carefully labeled by humans with abundant unlabeled data to train deep neural networks. Classic methods on semi-supervised learning that have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Ahmet Iscen , Giorgos Tolias , Yannis Avrithis , Ondrej Chum

We consider the problem of constructing embeddings of large attributed graphs and supporting multiple downstream learning tasks. We develop a graph embedding method, which is based on extending deep metric and unbiased contrastive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Xiang Li , Gagan Agrawal , Ruoming Jin , Rajiv Ramnath

In this paper, we propose a balancing training method to address problems in imbalanced data learning. To this end, we derive a new loss used in the balancing training phase that alleviates the influence of samples that cause an overfitted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Seulki Park , Jongin Lim , Younghan Jeon , Jin Young Choi

Combining multiple object detection datasets offers a path to improved generalisation but is hindered by inconsistencies in class semantics and bounding box annotations. Some methods to address this assume shared label taxonomies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mikhail Kennerley , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Robby T. Tan

In open-world semi-supervised learning, a machine learning model is tasked with uncovering novel categories from unlabeled data while maintaining performance on seen categories from labeled data. The central challenge is the substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Bo Ye , Kai Gan , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

Self-supervised pre-training with contrastive learning is a powerful method for learning from sparsely labeled data. However, performance can drop considerably when there is a shift in the distribution of data from training to test time. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Robert Lewis , Katie Matton , Rosalind W. Picard , John Guttag