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We propose a non-iterative method to optimize pseudo-labeling thresholds for learning object detection from a collection of low-cost datasets, each of which is annotated for only a subset of all the object classes. A popular approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yuki Tanaka , Shuhei M. Yoshida , Makoto Terao

Predicting all applicable labels for a given image is known as multi-label classification. Compared to the standard multi-class case (where each image has only one label), it is considerably more challenging to annotate training data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Elijah Cole , Oisin Mac Aodha , Titouan Lorieul , Pietro Perona , Dan Morris , Nebojsa Jojic

Supervised deep learning methods have been successful in the field of high energy physics, and the trend within the field is to move away from high level reconstructed variables to lower level, higher dimensional features. Supervised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-20 Samuel Klein , Matthew Leigh , Stephen Mulligan , Tobias Golling

Semi-supervised learning, i.e. jointly learning from labeled and unlabeled samples, is an active research topic due to its key role on relaxing human supervision. In the context of image classification, recent advances to learn from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Eric Arazo , Diego Ortego , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

We study the open-set label shift problem, where the test data may include a novel class absent from training. This setting is challenging because both the class proportions and the distribution of the novel class are not identifiable…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-19 Siyan Liu , Yukun Liu , Qinglong Tian , Pengfei Li , Jing Qin

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is the standard approach for binary classification tasks such as toxicity detection, factuality verification, and causal inference. However, SFT often performs poorly in real-world settings with label noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Punya Syon Pandey , Zhijing Jin

In many machine learning applications, labeling datasets can be an arduous and time-consuming task. Although research has shown that semi-supervised learning techniques can achieve high accuracy with very few labels within the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Evelyn J. Mannix , Howard D. Bondell

In many critical computer vision scenarios unlabeled data is plentiful, but labels are scarce and difficult to obtain. As a result, semi-supervised learning which leverages unlabeled data to boost the performance of supervised classifiers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jay C. Rothenberger , Dimitrios I. Diochnos

In many machine learning systems that jointly learn from multiple modalities, a core research question is to understand the nature of multimodal interactions: how modalities combine to provide new task-relevant information that was not…

In many real-world pattern recognition scenarios, such as in medical applications, the corresponding classification tasks can be of an imbalanced nature. In the current study, we focus on binary, imbalanced classification tasks, i.e.~binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Peter Bellmann , Heinke Hihn , Daniel A. Braun , Friedhelm Schwenker

In the domains of dataset construction and crowdsourcing, a notable challenge is to aggregate labels from a heterogeneous set of labelers, each of whom is potentially an expert in some subset of tasks (and less reliable in others). To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Surin Ahn , Ayfer Ozgur , Mert Pilanci

Positive Unlabeled (PU) learning is widely used in many applications, where a binary classifier is trained on the datasets consisting of only positive and unlabeled samples. In this paper, we improve PU learning over state-of-the-art from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Liwei Jiang , Dan Li , Qisheng Wang , Shuai Wang , Songtao Wang

Although unsupervised person re-identification (RE-ID) has drawn increasing research attentions due to its potential to address the scalability problem of supervised RE-ID models, it is very challenging to learn discriminative information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Hong-Xing Yu , Wei-Shi Zheng , Ancong Wu , Xiaowei Guo , Shaogang Gong , Jian-Huang Lai

Background: Most of the existing machine learning models for security tasks, such as spam detection, malware detection, or network intrusion detection, are built on supervised machine learning algorithms. In such a paradigm, models need a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Rui Shu , Tianpei Xia , Huy Tu , Laurie Williams , Tim Menzies

Semi-supervised anomaly detection, which aims to improve the anomaly detection performance by using a small amount of labeled anomaly data in addition to unlabeled data, has attracted attention. Existing semi-supervised approaches assume…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Hiroshi Takahashi , Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai , Yuuki Yamanaka

Positive-unlabeled (PU) learning deals with binary classification problems when only positive (P) and unlabeled (U) data are available. Many recent PU methods are based on neural networks, but little has been done to develop boosting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yawen Zhao , Mingzhe Zhang , Chenhao Zhang , Weitong Chen , Nan Ye , Miao Xu

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

Positive-unlabeled learning (PU learning) is known as a special case of semi-supervised binary classification where only a fraction of positive examples are labeled. The challenge is then to find the correct classifier despite this lack of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Olivier Coudray , Christine Keribin , Pascal Massart , Patrick Pamphile

A key requirement for supervised machine learning is labeled training data, which is created by annotating unlabeled data with the appropriate class. Because this process can in many cases not be done by machines, labeling needs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Nicolas Michael Müller , Karla Markert

In semantic segmentation, the creation of pixel-level labels for training data incurs significant costs. To address this problem, semi-supervised learning, which utilizes a small number of labeled images alongside unlabeled images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Takahiro Mano , Reiji Saito , Kazuhiro Hotta