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Partial Label (PL) learning refers to the task of learning from the partially labeled data, where each training instance is ambiguously equipped with a set of candidate labels but only one is valid. Advances in the recent deep PL learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Ximing Li , Yuanzhi Jiang , Changchun Li , Yiyuan Wang , Jihong Ouyang

Unlike fully supervised semantic segmentation, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on weaker forms of supervision to perform dense prediction tasks. Among the various types of weak supervision, WSSS with image level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zheyuan Zhang , Wang Zhang

Many datasets and approaches in ambient sound analysis use weakly labeled data.Weak labels are employed because annotating every data sample with a strong label is too expensive.Yet, their impact on the performance in comparison to strong…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Nicolas Turpault , Romain Serizel , Emmanuel Vincent

Frame-level micro- and macro-expression spotting methods require time-consuming frame-by-frame observation during annotation. Meanwhile, video-level spotting lacks sufficient information about the location and number of expressions during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Wang-Wang Yu , Xian-Shi Zhang , Fu-Ya Luo , Yijun Cao , Kai-Fu Yang , Hong-Mei Yan , Yong-Jie Li

Weak supervision allows machine learning models to learn from limited or noisy labels, but it introduces challenges in interpretability and reliability - particularly in multi-instance partial label learning (MI-PLL), where models must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nijesh Upreti , Vaishak Belle

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing encompasses two major directions: data interpretation and parameter inversion. However, both directions rely heavily on costly and labor-intensive labeled data and field measurements, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuan Gao , Shaobo Xia , Pu Wang , Xiaohuan Xi , Sheng Nie , Cheng Wang

Weakly-supervised learning (WSL) has shown promising results in addressing label scarcity on many NLP tasks, but manually designing a comprehensive, high-quality labeling rule set is tedious and difficult. We study interactive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Rongzhi Zhang , Yue Yu , Pranav Shetty , Le Song , Chao Zhang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

This paper proposes a novel method of learning by predicting view assignments with support samples (PAWS). The method trains a model to minimize a consistency loss, which ensures that different views of the same unlabeled instance are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Mahmoud Assran , Mathilde Caron , Ishan Misra , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Nicolas Ballas , Michael Rabbat

Semi-supervised learning and weakly supervised learning are important paradigms that aim to reduce the growing demand for labeled data in current machine learning applications. In this paper, we introduce a novel analysis of the classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Rattana Pukdee , Dylan Sam , Maria-Florina Balcan , Pradeep Ravikumar

Learning with supervision has achieved remarkable success in numerous artificial intelligence (AI) applications. In the current literature, by referring to the properties of the labels prepared for the training dataset, learning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Yongquan Yang

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success in learning effective representations, with supervised contrastive learning often outperforming self-supervised approaches. However, in real-world scenarios, data annotations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zi-Hao Zhou , Jun-Jie Wang , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

A cost-effective alternative to manual data labeling is weak supervision (WS), where data samples are automatically annotated using a predefined set of labeling functions (LFs), rule-based mechanisms that generate artificial labels for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Anastasiia Sedova , Benjamin Roth

Human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors has advanced through various machine learning paradigms, each with inherent trade-offs between performance and labeling requirements. While fully supervised techniques achieve high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber

Weakly-supervised learning is a paradigm for alleviating the scarcity of labeled data by leveraging lower-quality but larger-scale supervision signals. While existing work mainly focuses on utilizing a certain type of weak supervision, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Yivan Zhang , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Masashi Sugiyama

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 absence of labeled data for training neural models is often addressed by leveraging knowledge about the specific task, resulting in heuristic but noisy labels. The knowledge is captured in labeling functions, which detect certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Luisa März , Ehsaneddin Asgari , Fabienne Braune , Franziska Zimmermann , Benjamin Roth

We present a probabilistic modeling and inference framework for discriminative analysis dictionary learning under a weak supervision setting. Dictionary learning approaches have been widely used for tasks such as low-level signal denoising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-09 Zeyu You , Raviv Raich , Xiaoli Z. Fern , Jinsub Kim

Point cloud analysis has received much attention recently; and segmentation is one of the most important tasks. The success of existing approaches is attributed to deep network design and large amount of labelled training data, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Xun Xu , Gim Hee Lee

Collecting large-scale medical datasets with fine-grained annotations is time-consuming and requires experts. For this reason, weakly supervised learning aims at optimising machine learning models using weaker forms of annotations, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris