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Weak supervision enables efficient development of training sets by reducing the need for ground truth labels. However, the techniques that make weak supervision attractive -- such as integrating any source of signal to estimate unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Changho Shin , Sonia Cromp , Dyah Adila , Frederic Sala

We motivate weakly supervised learning as an effective learning paradigm for problems where curating perfectly annotated datasets is expensive and may require domain expertise such as fine-grained classification. We focus on Partial Label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Darshana Saravanan , Naresh Manwani , Vineet Gandhi

We propose Regularized Learning under Label shifts (RLLS), a principled and a practical domain-adaptation algorithm to correct for shifts in the label distribution between a source and a target domain. We first estimate importance weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anqi Liu , Fanny Yang , Animashree Anandkumar

Deep-learning methods have shown promising performance for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reconstruction. However, supervised methods face the problem of lacking labeled data in clinical scenarios, and the CNN-based unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Ran An , Ke Chen , Hongwei Li

Anomaly detection (AD) is a crucial task in machine learning with various applications, such as detecting emerging diseases, identifying financial frauds, and detecting fake news. However, obtaining complete, accurate, and precise labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Minqi Jiang , Chaochuan Hou , Ao Zheng , Xiyang Hu , Songqiao Han , Hailiang Huang , Xiangnan He , Philip S. Yu , Yue Zhao

Semi-supervised learning methods are motivated by the availability of large datasets with unlabeled features in addition to labeled data. Unlabeled data is, however, not guaranteed to improve classification performance and has in fact been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-25 Xiuming Liu , Dave Zachariah , Johan Wågberg , Thomas B. Schön

Unsupervised representation learning approaches aim to learn discriminative feature representations from unlabeled data, without the requirement of annotating every sample. Enabling unsupervised representation learning is extremely crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Qianwen Meng , Hangwei Qian , Yong Liu , Yonghui Xu , Zhiqi Shen , Lizhen Cui

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for semantic segmentation addresses the cross-domain problem with fine source domain labels. However, the acquisition of semantic labels has always been a difficult step, many scenarios only have weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Shengjie Liu , Chuang Zhu , Wenqi Tang

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

Manual labelling of training examples is common practice in supervised learning. When the labelling task is of non-trivial difficulty, the supplied labels may not be equal to the ground-truth labels, and label noise is introduced into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-08 Daniel Ahfock , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP exhibit strong zero-shot generalization, but adapting them to downstream tasks typically requires costly labeled data. Existing unsupervised self-training methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Qian-Wei Wang , Guanghao Meng , Ren Cai , Yaguang Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Current deep neural networks (DNNs) can easily overfit to biased training data with corrupted labels or class imbalance. Sample re-weighting strategy is commonly used to alleviate this issue by designing a weighting function mapping from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Jun Shu , Qi Xie , Lixuan Yi , Qian Zhao , Sanping Zhou , Zongben Xu , Deyu Meng

Noisy labels, resulting from mistakes in manual labeling or webly data collecting for supervised learning, can cause neural networks to overfit the misleading information and degrade the generalization performance. Self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Cheng Tan , Jun Xia , Lirong Wu , Stan Z. Li

Unsupervised Domain Adaptive (UDA) object re-identification (Re-ID) aims at adapting a model trained on a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. State-of-the-art object Re-ID approaches adopt clustering algorithms to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Pengfei Wang , Changxing Ding , Wentao Tan , Mingming Gong , Kui Jia , Dacheng Tao

This paper addresses the prevalent issue of label shift in an online setting with missing labels, where data distributions change over time and obtaining timely labels is challenging. While existing methods primarily focus on adjusting or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ruihan Wu , Siddhartha Datta , Yi Su , Dheeraj Baby , Yu-Xiang Wang , Kilian Q. Weinberger

We present a technique to improve the transferability of deep representations learned on small labeled datasets by introducing self-supervised tasks as auxiliary loss functions. While recent approaches for self-supervised learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Jong-Chyi Su , Subhransu Maji , Bharath Hariharan

Recent Weak Supervision (WS) approaches have had widespread success in easing the bottleneck of labeling training data for machine learning by synthesizing labels from multiple potentially noisy supervision sources. However, proper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jieyu Zhang , Yue Yu , Yinghao Li , Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Mao Yang , Alexander Ratner

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

Weak supervision is a popular framework for overcoming the labeled data bottleneck: the need to obtain labels for training data. In weak supervision, multiple noisy-but-cheap sources are used to provide guesses of the label and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Tzu-Heng Huang , Catherine Cao , Spencer Schoenberg , Harit Vishwakarma , Nicholas Roberts , Frederic Sala

In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised clustering approach exploiting the hidden information that is indirectly introduced through a pseudo classification objective. Specifically, we randomly assign a pseudo parent-class label to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Ozsel Kilinc , Ismail Uysal