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Programmatic Weak Supervision (PWS) enables supervised model training without direct access to ground truth labels, utilizing weak labels from heuristics, crowdsourcing, or pre-trained models. However, the absence of ground truth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-01 Felipe Maia Polo , Subha Maity , Mikhail Yurochkin , Moulinath Banerjee , Yuekai Sun

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

The rapid development of deep learning has driven significant progress in image semantic segmentation - a fundamental task in computer vision. Semantic segmentation algorithms often depend on the availability of pixel-level labels (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

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

Image-level weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) reduces the usually vast data annotation cost by surrogate segmentation masks during training. The typical approach involves training an image classification network using global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Arvi Jonnarth , Yushan Zhang , Michael Felsberg

A popular approach to decrease the need for costly manual annotation of large data sets is weak supervision, which introduces problems of noisy labels, coverage and bias. Methods for overcoming these problems have either relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Andreas Stephan , Benjamin Roth

The high cost of data labeling presents a major barrier to deploying machine learning systems at scale. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) mitigates this challenge by utilizing unlabeled data alongside limited labeled examples, while the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jichan Chung , Irene Y. Chen

As machine learning models continue to increase in complexity, collecting large hand-labeled training sets has become one of the biggest roadblocks in practice. Instead, weaker forms of supervision that provide noisier but cheaper labels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Alexander Ratner , Braden Hancock , Jared Dunnmon , Frederic Sala , Shreyash Pandey , Christopher Ré

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

To create a large amount of training labels for machine learning models effectively and efficiently, researchers have turned to Weak Supervision (WS), which uses programmatic labeling sources rather than manual annotation. Existing works of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Jieyu Zhang , Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Yang Luo , Alexander Ratner

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

3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

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 availability of labelled data is one of the main limitations in machine learning. We can alleviate this using weak supervision: a framework that uses expert-defined rules $\boldsymbol{\lambda}$ to estimate probabilistic labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Samantha Biegel , Rafah El-Khatib , Luiz Otavio Vilas Boas Oliveira , Max Baak , Nanne Aben

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

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) aims to improve segmentation performance by utilizing large amounts of unlabeled data with limited labeled samples. Existing methods often suffer from coupling, where over-reliance on initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ebenezer Tarubinga , Jenifer Kalafatovich , Seong-Whan Lee

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

We study open-world multi-label text classification under extremely weak supervision (XWS), where the user only provides a brief description for classification objectives without any labels or ground-truth label space. Similar single-label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xintong Li , Jinya Jiang , Ria Dharmani , Jayanth Srinivasa , Gaowen Liu , Jingbo Shang

Building machine learning models for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks relies heavily on labeled data. Weak supervision has been proven valuable when large amount of labeled data is unavailable or expensive to obtain. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Guoqing Zheng , Giannis Karamanolakis , Kai Shu , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Using the data from loop detector sensors for near-real-time detection of traffic incidents in highways is crucial to averting major traffic congestion. While recent supervised machine learning methods offer solutions to incident detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yixuan Sun , Tanwi Mallick , Prasanna Balaprakash , Jane Macfarlane