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Supervised learning usually requires a large amount of labelled data. However, attaining ground-truth labels is costly for many tasks. Alternatively, weakly supervised methods learn with cheap weak signals that only approximately label some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 You Lu , Wenzhuo Song , Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

Labeling training data has become one of the major roadblocks to using machine learning. Among various weak supervision paradigms, programmatic weak supervision (PWS) has achieved remarkable success in easing the manual labeling bottleneck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Jieyu Zhang , Cheng-Yu Hsieh , Yue Yu , Chao Zhang , Alexander Ratner

The accurate labeling of datasets is often both costly and time-consuming. Given an unlabeled dataset, programmatic weak supervision obtains probabilistic predictions for the labels by leveraging multiple weak labeling functions (LFs) that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-07 Verónica Álvarez , Santiago Mazuelas , Steven An , Sanjoy Dasgupta

Weak supervision (WS) is a rich set of techniques that produce pseudolabels by aggregating easily obtained but potentially noisy label estimates from a variety of sources. WS is theoretically well understood for binary classification, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Harit Vishwakarma , Nicholas Roberts , Frederic Sala

Aggregating multiple sources of weak supervision (WS) can ease the data-labeling bottleneck prevalent in many machine learning applications, by replacing the tedious manual collection of ground truth labels. Current state of the art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Salva Rühling Cachay , Benedikt Boecking , Artur Dubrawski

Many ways of annotating a dataset for machine learning classification tasks that go beyond the usual class labels exist in practice. These are of interest as they can simplify or facilitate the collection of annotations, while not greatly…

The expense of acquiring labels in large-scale statistical machine learning makes partially and weakly-labeled data attractive, though it is not always apparent how to leverage such data for model fitting or validation. We present a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Maxime Cauchois , Suyash Gupta , Alnur Ali , John Duchi

Consider a classification problem where we do not have access to labels for individual training examples, but only have average labels over subpopulations. We give practical examples of this setup and show how such a classification task can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-16 Stefan Wager , Alexander Blocker , Niall Cardin

Long-tailed data is prevalent in real-world classification tasks and heavily relies on supervised information, which makes the annotation process exceptionally labor-intensive and time-consuming. Unfortunately, despite being a common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Meng Wei , Zhongnian Li , Yong Zhou , Xinzheng Xu

Training deep neural networks requires many training samples, but in practice training labels are expensive to obtain and may be of varying quality, as some may be from trusted expert labelers while others might be from heuristics or other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Mostafa Dehghani , Arash Mehrjou , Stephan Gouws , Jaap Kamps , Bernhard Schölkopf

High-quality labels are often very scarce, whereas unlabeled data with inferred weak labels occurs more naturally. In many cases, these weak labels dictate the frequency of each respective class over a set of instances. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Vinay Shukla , Zhe Zeng , Kareem Ahmed , Guy Van den Broeck

Training deep neural networks requires many training samples, but in practice, training labels are expensive to obtain and may be of varying quality, as some may be from trusted expert labelers while others might be from heuristics or other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Mostafa Dehghani , Jaap Kamps

Determining the best method for training a machine learning algorithm is critical to maximizing its ability to classify data. In this paper, we compare the standard "fully supervised" approach (that relies on knowledge of event-by-event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-29 Timothy Cohen , Marat Freytsis , Bryan Ostdiek

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

Annotating datasets is one of the main costs in nowadays supervised learning. The goal of weak supervision is to enable models to learn using only forms of labelling which are cheaper to collect, as partial labelling. This is a type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Vivien Cabannes , Alessandro Rudi , Francis Bach

In practical machine learning applications, it is often challenging to assign accurate labels to data, and increasing the number of labeled instances is often limited. In such cases, Weakly Supervised Learning (WSL), which enables training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tomoya Tate , Kosuke Sugiyama , Masato Uchida

Motivated by the desire to generate labels for real-time data we develop a method to estimate the dependency structure and accuracy of weak supervision sources incrementally. Our method first estimates the dependency structure associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Richard Gresham Correro

This paper proposes a novel weakly-supervised semantic segmentation method using image-level label only. The class-specific activation maps from the well-trained classifiers are used as cues to train a segmentation network. The well-known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Ting Sun , Lei Tai , Zhihan Gao , Ming Liu , Dit-Yan Yeung

Serial femtosecond crystallography at X-ray free electron laser facilities opens a new era for the determination of crystal structure. However, the data processing of those experiments is facing unprecedented challenge, because the total…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-22 Jianan Xie , Ji Liu , Chi Zhang , Xihui Chen , Ping Huai , Jie Zheng , Xiaofeng Zhang

Programmatic weak supervision creates models without hand-labeled training data by combining the outputs of heuristic labelers. Existing frameworks make the restrictive assumption that labelers output a single class label. Enabling users to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Peilin Yu , Tiffany Ding , Stephen H. Bach