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Positive unlabeled (PU) learning is useful in various practical situations, where there is a need to learn a classifier for a class of interest from an unlabeled data set, which may contain anomalies as well as samples from unknown classes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Emanuele Sansone , Francesco G. B. De Natale , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Unsupervised meta-learning aims to learn generalizable knowledge across a distribution of tasks constructed from unlabeled data. Here, the main challenge is how to construct diverse tasks for meta-learning without label information; recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Huiwon Jang , Hankook Lee , Jinwoo Shin

The problem of learning from positive and unlabeled data (A.K.A. PU learning) has been studied in a binary (i.e., positive versus negative) classification setting, where the input data consist of (1) observations from the positive class and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Omar Zamzam , Haleh Akrami , Richard Leahy

Multi-label image recognition in the low-label regime is a task of great challenge and practical significance. Previous works have focused on learning the alignment between textual and visual spaces to compensate for limited image labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ping Hu , Ximeng Sun , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko

Multi-class classification problems are fundamental in many varied domains in research and industry. To solve multi-class classification problems, heuristic strategies such as One-vs-One or One-vs-All can be employed. However, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 S M Pillay , I Sinayskiy , E Jembere , F Petruccione

Pretext Invariant Representation Learning (PIRL) followed by Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) has become a standard paradigm for learning with limited labels. We extend this approach to the Positive Unlabeled (PU) setting, where only a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Anish Acharya , Li Jing , Bhargav Bhushanam , Dhruv Choudhary , Michael Rabbat , Sujay Sanghavi , Inderjit S Dhillon

Assessing the blurriness of an object image is fundamentally important to improve the performance for object recognition and retrieval. The main challenge lies in the lack of abundant images with reliable labels and effective learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Qiang Li , Zhaoliang Yao , Jingjing Wang , Ye Tian , Pengju Yang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

We propose a novel framework for incorporating unlabeled data into semi-supervised classification problems, where scenarios involving the minimization of either i) adversarially robust or ii) non-robust loss functions have been considered.…

Learning binary classifiers only from positive and unlabeled (PU) data is an important and challenging task in many real-world applications, including web text classification, disease gene identification and fraud detection, where negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Hui Chen , Fangqing Liu , Yin Wang , Liyue Zhao , Hao Wu

We address the issue of binary classification from positive and unlabeled data (PU classification) with a selection bias in the positive data. During the observation process, (i) a sample is exposed to a user, (ii) the user then returns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Masahiro Kato , Shuting Wu , Kodai Kureishi , Shota Yasui

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

Given only positive (P) and unlabeled (U) data, PU learning can train a binary classifier without any negative data. It has two building blocks: PU class-prior estimation (CPE) and PU classification; the latter has been well studied while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Dacheng Tao

Multiple instance learning (MIL) problem is currently solved from either bag-classification or instance-classification perspective, both of which ignore important information contained in some instances and result in limited performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yingfan Ma , Xiaoyuan Luo , Mingzhi Yuan , Xinrong Chen , Manning Wang

Weakly supervised learning aims to empower machine learning when the perfect supervision is unavailable, which has drawn great attention from researchers. Among various types of weak supervision, one of the most challenging cases is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zheng Xie , Yu Liu , Ming Li

In conventional supervised classification, true labels are required for individual instances. However, it could be prohibitive to collect the true labels for individual instances, due to privacy concerns or unaffordable annotation costs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Zixi Wei , Lei Feng , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Xiaofeng Zhu , Heng Tao Shen

Unsupervised Federated Learning (UFL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across distributed clients without sharing data or accessing label information. Previous UFL works have predominantly focused on representation learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kuangpu Guo , Lijun Sheng , Yongcan Yu , Jian Liang , Zilei Wang , Ran He

This paper investigates the problem of image classification with limited or no annotations, but abundant unlabeled data. The setting exists in many tasks such as semi-supervised image classification, image clustering, and image retrieval.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Recent progress in semi- and self-supervised learning has caused a rift in the long-held belief about the need for an enormous amount of labeled data for machine learning and the irrelevancy of unlabeled data. Although it has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Minwook Kim , Juseong Kim , Giltae Song

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

As a cross-topic of multi-view learning and multi-label classification, multi-view multi-label classification has gradually gained traction in recent years. The application of multi-view contrastive learning has further facilitated this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Chengliang Liu , Jie Wen , Yong Xu , Bob Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang