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Partial label learning deals with the problem where each training instance is assigned a set of candidate labels, only one of which is correct. This paper provides the first attempt to leverage the idea of self-training for dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Lei Feng , Bo An

Partial-label learning (PLL) is an important weakly supervised learning problem, which allows each training example to have a candidate label set instead of a single ground-truth label. Identification-based methods have been widely explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shiyu Tian , Hongxin Wei , Yiqun Wang , Lei Feng

The problem of learning from label proportions (LLP) involves training classifiers with weak labels on bags of instances, rather than strong labels on individual instances. The weak labels only contain the label proportion of each bag. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Kuen-Han Tsai , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Different from the traditional supervised learning in which each training example has only one explicit label, superset label learning (SLL) refers to the problem that a training example can be associated with a set of candidate labels, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Chen Gong , Tongliang Liu , Yuanyan Tang , Jian Yang , Jie Yang , Dacheng Tao

In learning from aggregate labels, the training data consists of sets or "bags" of feature-vectors (instances) along with an aggregate label for each bag derived from the (usually {0,1}-valued) labels of its instances. In learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yukti Makhija , Rishi Saket

Weakly supervised machine learning algorithms are able to learn from ambiguous samples or labels, e.g., multi-instance learning or partial-label learning. However, in some real-world tasks, each training sample is associated with not only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Wei Tang , Weijia Zhang , Min-Ling Zhang

In partial label learning (PLL), each training sample is associated with a set of candidate labels, among which only one is valid. The core of PLL is to disambiguate the candidate labels to get the ground-truth one. In disambiguation, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yuheng Jia , Chongjie Si , Min-ling Zhang

(Partial) ranking loss is a commonly used evaluation measure for multi-label classification, which is usually optimized with convex surrogates for computational efficiency. Prior theoretical work on multi-label ranking mainly focuses on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Guoqiang Wu , Chongxuan Li , Kun Xu , Jun Zhu

Partial label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning problem, where each training example is associated with a set of candidate labels among which only one is true. Most existing PLL approaches assume that the incorrect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Congyu Qiao , Ning Xu , Xin Geng

Designing robust algorithms capable of training accurate neural networks on uncurated datasets from the web has been the subject of much research as it reduces the need for time consuming human labor. The focus of many previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Paul Albert , Eric Arazo , Tarun Krishna , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

As an important branch of weakly supervised learning, partial label learning deals with data where each instance is assigned with a set of candidate labels, whereas only one of them is true. Despite many methodology studies on learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Hongwei Wen , Jingyi Cui , Hanyuan Hang , Jiabin Liu , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

We consider a weakly supervised learning problem called Learning from Label Proportions (LLP), where examples are grouped into ``bags'' and only the average label within each bag is revealed to the learner. We study various learning rules…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Gene Li , Lin Chen , Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni

Consistency regularization-based methods are prevalent in semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms due to their exceptional performance. However, they mainly depend on domain-specific data augmentations, which are not usable in domains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Matin Moezzi

Under partial-label learning (PLL) where, for each training instance, only a set of ambiguous candidate labels containing the unknown true label is accessible, contrastive learning has recently boosted the performance of PLL on vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Shiyu Xia , Jiaqi Lv , Ning Xu , Gang Niu , Xin Geng

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) often suffers under class imbalance, where pseudo-labeling amplifies majority bias and suppresses minority performance. We address this issue with a lightweight framework that, to our knowledge, is the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Kohki Akiba , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Shota Harada , Ryoma Bise

Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL) has attracted significant attention from the research community. Many recent LNL methods rely on the assumption that clean samples tend to have "small loss". However, this assumption always fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 MingCai Chen , Yu Zhao , Bing He , Zongbo Han , Bingzhe Wu , Jianhua Yao

Labelling of data for supervised learning can be costly and time-consuming and the risk of incorporating label noise in large data sets is imminent. When training a flexible discriminative model using a strictly proper loss, such noise will…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-13 Amanda Olmin , Fredrik Lindsten

Deep supervised learning has achieved remarkable success across a wide range of tasks, yet it remains susceptible to overfitting when confronted with noisy labels. To address this issue, noise-robust loss functions offer an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xichen Ye , Yifan Wu , Yiqi Wang , Xiaoqiang Li , Weizhong Zhang , Yifan Chen

Learning with noisy labels is a crucial task for training accurate deep neural networks. To mitigate label noise, prior studies have proposed various robust loss functions, particularly symmetric losses. Nevertheless, symmetric losses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jialiang Wang , Xianming Liu , Xiong Zhou , Gangfeng Hu , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

In a typical multi-label setting, a picture contains on average few positive labels, and many negative ones. This positive-negative imbalance dominates the optimization process, and can lead to under-emphasizing gradients from positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Emanuel Ben-Baruch , Tal Ridnik , Nadav Zamir , Asaf Noy , Itamar Friedman , Matan Protter , Lihi Zelnik-Manor