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Domain Adaptation methodologies have shown to effectively generalize from a labeled source domain to a label scarce target domain. Previous research has either focused on unlabeled domain adaptation without any target supervision or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Jonas Sonntag , Gunnar Behrens , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

The binary classification problem has a situation where only biased data are observed in one of the classes. In this paper, we propose a new method to approach the positive and biased negative (PbN) classification problem, which is a weakly…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-28 Shotaro Watanabe , Hidetoshi Matsui

We study the problem of learning from positive and unlabeled (PU) data in the federated setting, where each client only labels a little part of their dataset due to the limitation of resources and time. Different from the settings in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Xinyang Lin , Hanting Chen , Yixing Xu , Chao Xu , Xiaolin Gui , Yiping Deng , Yunhe Wang

We propose a new method of learning from positive and unlabeled (PU) examples in highly imbalanced datasets. Many real-world problems, such as disease gene identification, targeted marketing, fraud detection, and recommender systems, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Elias Zavitsanos , Georgios Paliouras

Cell detection in histopathology images is of great interest to clinical practice and research, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable cell detection results. Typically, to train CNN-based cell detection models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zipei Zhao , Fengqian Pang , Yaou Liu , Zhiwen Liu , Chuyang Ye

We propose a meta-learning method for positive and unlabeled (PU) classification, which improves the performance of binary classifiers obtained from only PU data in unseen target tasks. PU learning is an important problem since PU data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Learning binary classifiers from positive and unlabeled data (PUL) is vital in many real-world applications, especially when verifying negative examples is difficult. Despite the impressive empirical performance of recent PUL methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xinrui Wang , Wenhai Wan , Chuanxin Geng , Shaoyuan LI , Songcan Chen

We consider the unsupervised learning problem of assigning labels to unlabeled data. A naive approach is to use clustering methods, but this works well only when data is properly clustered and each cluster corresponds to an underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Marthinus Christoffel du Plessis , Masashi Sugiyama

Complementary-label learning is a weakly supervised learning problem in which each training example is associated with one or multiple complementary labels indicating the classes to which it does not belong. Existing consistent approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Wei Wang , Takashi Ishida , Yu-Jie Zhang , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Motivated by applications in protein function prediction, we consider a challenging supervised classification setting in which positive labels are scarce and there are no explicit negative labels. The learning algorithm must thus select…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Marco Frasca , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

Positive-unlabeled (PU) learning addresses binary classification when only a set of labeled positives is available alongside a pool of unlabeled samples drawn from a mixture of positives and negatives. Existing PU methods typically require…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Siyan Liu , Yi Chang , Manli Cheng , Qinglong Tian , Pengfei Li

Collaborative filtering (CF) stands as a cornerstone in recommender systems, yet effectively leveraging the massive unlabeled data presents a significant challenge. Current research focuses on addressing the challenge of unlabeled data by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuhan Zhao , Rui Chen , Qilong Han , Hongtao Song , Li Chen

This paper defines a positive and unlabeled classification problem for standard GANs, which then leads to a novel technique to stabilize the training of the discriminator in GANs. Traditionally, real data are taken as positive while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Tianyu Guo , Chang Xu , Jiajun Huang , Yunhe Wang , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao

During recent years, active learning has evolved into a popular paradigm for utilizing user's feedback to improve accuracy of learning algorithms. Active learning works by selecting the most informative sample among unlabeled data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alireza Ghasemi , Hamid R. Rabiee , Mohsen Fadaee , Mohammad T. Manzuri , Mohammad H. Rohban

Semi-supervised learning frameworks usually adopt mutual learning approaches with multiple submodels to learn from different perspectives. To avoid transferring erroneous pseudo labels between these submodels, a high threshold is usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Hao Xu , Hui Xiao , Huazheng Hao , Li Dong , Xiaojie Qiu , Chengbin Peng

As an important and challenging problem in computer vision, zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at automatically recognizing the instances from unseen object classes without training data. To address this problem, ZSL is usually carried out in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Xi Li , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei Zhang , Haibin Ling , Fei Wu

It is well known that for some tasks, labeled data sets may be hard to gather. Therefore, we wished to tackle here the problem of having insufficient training data. We examined learning methods from unlabeled data after an initial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Gal Hyams , Daniel Greenfeld , Dor Bank

From only positive (P) and unlabeled (U) data, a binary classifier could be trained with PU learning, in which the state of the art is unbiased PU learning. However, if its model is very flexible, empirical risks on training data will go…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Ryuichi Kiryo , Gang Niu , Marthinus C. du Plessis , Masashi Sugiyama

PU (Positive Unlabeled) learning is a variant of supervised classification learning in which the only labels revealed to the learner are of positively labeled instances. PU learning arises in many real-world applications. Most existing work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Farnam Mansouri , Shai Ben-David

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning aims to learn a model with rare positive samples and abundant unlabeled samples. Compared with classical binary classification, the task of PU learning is much more challenging due to the existence of many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Shijie Zhang , Lijie Jia , Yanwei Fu