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Weak supervision (WS) is an alternative to the traditional supervised learning to address the need for ground truth. Data programming is a practical WS approach that allows programmatic labeling data samples using labeling functions (LFs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Gürkan Solmaz , Flavio Cirillo , Fabio Maresca , Anagha Gode Anil Kumar

Labeling training data is a key bottleneck in the modern machine learning pipeline. Recent weak supervision approaches combine labels from multiple noisy sources by estimating their accuracies without access to ground truth labels; however,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-15 Paroma Varma , Frederic Sala , Ann He , Alexander Ratner , Christopher Ré

Deep learning has gained broad interest in remote sensing image scene classification thanks to the effectiveness of deep neural networks in extracting the semantics from complex data. However, deep networks require large amounts of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Gianmarco Perantoni , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Weakly supervised learning generally faces challenges in applicability to various scenarios with diverse weak supervision and in scalability due to the complexity of existing algorithms, thereby hindering the practical deployment. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Hao Chen , Jindong Wang , Lei Feng , Xiang Li , Yidong Wang , Xing Xie , Masashi Sugiyama , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

Obtaining large annotated datasets is critical for training successful machine learning models and it is often a bottleneck in practice. Weak supervision offers a promising alternative for producing labeled datasets without ground truth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Benedikt Boecking , Willie Neiswanger , Eric Xing , Artur Dubrawski

Training deep neural networks requires massive amounts of training data, but for many tasks only limited labeled data is available. This makes weak supervision attractive, using weak or noisy signals like the output of heuristic methods or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Mostafa Dehghani , Aliaksei Severyn , Sascha Rothe , Jaap Kamps

Contrastive learning has shown outstanding performances in both supervised and unsupervised learning, and has recently been introduced to solve weakly supervised learning problems such as semi-supervised learning and noisy label learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jingyi Cui , Weiran Huang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

Finding relevant and high-quality datasets to train machine learning models is a major bottleneck for practitioners. Furthermore, to address ambitious real-world use-cases there is usually the requirement that the data come labelled with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Georgios Papadopoulos , Fran Silavong , Sean Moran

In this paper we propose a novel learning framework called Supervised and Weakly Supervised Learning where the goal is to learn simultaneously from weakly and strongly labeled data. Strongly labeled data can be simply understood as fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Anurag Kumar , Bhiksha Raj

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

The currently most prominent algorithm to train keyword spotting (KWS) models with deep neural networks (DNNs) requires strong supervision i.e., precise knowledge of the spoken keyword location in time. Thus, most KWS approaches treat the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Heinrich Dinkel , Weiji Zhuang , Zhiyong Yan , Yongqing Wang , Junbo Zhang , Yujun Wang

A critical yet frequently overlooked challenge in the field of deepfake detection is the lack of a standardized, unified, comprehensive benchmark. This issue leads to unfair performance comparisons and potentially misleading results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhiyuan Yan , Yong Zhang , Xinhang Yuan , Siwei Lyu , Baoyuan Wu

Healthcare fraud detection remains a critical challenge due to limited availability of labeled data, constantly evolving fraud tactics, and the high dimensionality of medical records. Traditional supervised methods are challenged by extreme…

Robustness to label noise within data is a significant challenge in federated learning (FL). From the data-centric perspective, the data quality of distributed datasets can not be guaranteed since annotations of different clients contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xuefeng Jiang , Jia Li , Nannan Wu , Zhiyuan Wu , Xujing Li , Sheng Sun , Gang Xu , Yuwei Wang , Qi Li , Min Liu

Currently, machine learning techniques have seen significant success across various applications. Most of these techniques rely on supervision from human-generated labels or a mixture of noisy and imprecise labels from multiple sources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yanbo Wang , Wenyu Chen , Shimin Shan

With the abundance of industrial datasets, imbalanced classification has become a common problem in several application domains. Oversampling is an effective method to solve imbalanced classification. One of the main challenges of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Min Qian , Yan-Fu Li

Weakly supervised referring expression comprehension(WREC) and segmentation(WRES) aim to learn object grounding based on a given expression using weak supervision signals like image-text pairs. While these tasks have traditionally been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yang Liu , Silin Cheng , Xinwei He , Sebastien Ourselin , Lei Tan , Gen Luo

Anomaly detection plays a pivotal role in manufacturing quality control, yet its application is constrained by limited abnormal samples and high manual annotation costs. While anomaly synthesis offers a promising solution, existing studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qunyi Zhang , Songan Zhang , Jiaqi Liu , Jinbao Wang , Xiaoning Lei , Guoyang Xie , Guannan Jiang , Zhichao Lu

Given a long list of anomaly detection algorithms developed in the last few decades, how do they perform with regard to (i) varying levels of supervision, (ii) different types of anomalies, and (iii) noisy and corrupted data? In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Songqiao Han , Xiyang Hu , Hailiang Huang , Mingqi Jiang , Yue Zhao

Label noise is a common problem in real-world datasets, affecting both model training and validation. Clean data are essential for achieving strong performance and ensuring reliable evaluation. While various techniques have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Henrique Pickler , Jorge K. S. Kamassury , Danilo Silva