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With the increasing computing power of edge devices, Federated Learning (FL) emerges to enable model training without privacy concerns. The majority of existing studies assume the data are fully labeled on the client side. In practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Woojung Kim , Keondo Park , Kihyuk Sohn , Raphael Shu , Hyung-Sin Kim

As data volumes continue to grow, the labelling process increasingly becomes a bottleneck, creating demand for methods that leverage information from unlabelled data. Impressive results have been achieved in semi-supervised learning (SSL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Ivana Balažević , Carl Allen , Timothy Hospedales

Dataset pruning reduces the storage and training costs of deep learning by selecting an informative subset from a large dataset. However, most existing pruning methods require fully labeled data, which limits their applicability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yeseul Cho , Baekrok Shin , Changmin Kang , Chulhee Yun

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved significant progress by leveraging both labeled data and unlabeled data. Existing SSL methods overlook a common real-world scenario when labeled data is extremely scarce, potentially as limited as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hezhao Liu , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiqun Zhang , Shreyank N Gowda , Chen Gong , Hanzi Wang

While semi-supervised learning (SSL) has yielded promising results, the more realistic SSL scenario remains to be explored, in which the unlabeled data exhibits extremely high recognition difficulty, e.g., fine-grained visual classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yue Duan , Zhen Zhao , Lei Qi , Luping Zhou , Lei Wang , Yinghuan Shi

Unlabeled data learning has attracted considerable attention recently. However, it is still elusive to extract the expected high-level semantic feature with mere unsupervised learning. In the meantime, semi-supervised learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

Existing semi-supervised learning algorithms adopt pseudo-labeling and consistency regulation techniques to introduce supervision signals for unlabeled samples. To overcome the inherent limitation of threshold-based pseudo-labeling, prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Zhiyu Wu , Jinshi Cui

The recent research in semi-supervised learning (SSL) is mostly dominated by consistency regularization based methods which achieve strong performance. However, they heavily rely on domain-specific data augmentations, which are not easy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Kevin Duarte , Yogesh S Rawat , Mubarak Shah

Medical image classification is a challenging task due to the scarcity of labeled samples and class imbalance caused by the high variance in disease prevalence. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods can mitigate these challenges by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Md Junaid Mahmood , Pranaw Raj , Divyansh Agarwal , Suruchi Kumari , Pravendra Singh

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has attracted enormous attention due to its vast potential of mitigating the dependence on large labeled datasets. The latest methods (e.g., FixMatch) use a combination of consistency regularization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuhao Chen , Xin Tan , Borui Zhao , Zhaowei Chen , Renjie Song , Jiajun Liang , Xuequan Lu

Semi-supervised Learning (SSL) has witnessed great success owing to the impressive performances brought by various methods based on pseudo labeling and consistency regularization. However, we argue that existing methods might fail to…

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) arises in practice when labeled data are scarce or expensive to obtain, while large quantities of unlabeled data are readily available. With the growing adoption of machine learning techniques, it has become…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Jiawei Shan , Zhifeng Chen , Yiming Dong , Yazhen Wang , Jiwei Zhao

In this study, a novel idea, Uncertainty Structure Estimation (USE), a lightweight, algorithm-agnostic procedure that emphasizes the often-overlooked role of unlabeled data quality is introduced for Semi-supervised learning (SSL). SSL has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tsao-Lun Chen , Chien-Liang Liu , Tzu-Ming Harry Hsu , Tai-Hsien Wu , Chi-Cheng Fu , Han-Yi E. Chou , Shun-Feng Su

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) aims to learn a model using a tiny labeled set and massive amounts of unlabeled data. To better exploit the unlabeled data the latest SSL methods use pseudo-labels predicted from a single discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhongying Deng , Rihuan Ke , Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) effectively leverages unlabeled data and has been proven successful across various fields. Current safe SSL methods believe that unseen classes in unlabeled data harm the performance of SSL models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rundong He , Yicong Dong , Lanzhe Guo , Yilong Yin , Tailin Wu

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) constructs classifiers from datasets in which only a subset of observations is labelled, a situation that naturally arises because obtaining labels often requires expert judgement or costly manual effort. This…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-09 Geoffrey J. McLachlan , Jinran Wu

Since federated learning (FL) has been introduced as a decentralized learning technique with privacy preservation, statistical heterogeneity of distributed data stays the main obstacle to achieve robust performance and stable convergence in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yanhang Shi , Siguang Chen , Haijun Zhang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been proven to be a powerful method for leveraging unlabeled data to alleviate models'dependence on large labeled datasets. The common framework among recent approaches is to train the model on a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jun Sun , Wancheng Zhang , Chao Zhou , Zhongjie Mao , Chao Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

Unlabelled data appear in many domains and are particularly relevant to streaming applications, where even though data is abundant, labelled data is rare. To address the learning problems associated with such data, one can ignore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Heitor Murilo Gomes , Maciej Grzenda , Rodrigo Mello , Jesse Read , Minh Huong Le Nguyen , Albert Bifet

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a popular setting aiming to effectively utilize unlabelled data to improve model performance in downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Currently, there are two popular approaches to make use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhengxiang Shi , Francesco Tonolini , Nikolaos Aletras , Emine Yilmaz , Gabriella Kazai , Yunlong Jiao