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With the advance of natural language inference (NLI), a rising demand for NLI is to handle scientific texts. Existing methods depend on pre-trained models (PTM) which lack domain-specific knowledge. To tackle this drawback, we introduce a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Chenglin Wang , Yucheng Zhou , Guodong Long , Xiaodong Wang , Xiaowei Xu

While pre-trained language models have obtained state-of-the-art performance for several natural language understanding tasks, they are quite opaque in terms of their decision-making process. While some recent works focus on rationalizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Meghana Moorthy Bhat , Alessandro Sordoni , Subhabrata Mukherjee

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide excellent performance when used for image classification. The classical method of training CNNs is by labeling images in a supervised manner as in "input image belongs to this label" (Positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Youngdong Kim , Junho Yim , Juseung Yun , Junmo Kim

Abductive reasoning is the process of making educated guesses to provide explanations for observations. Although many applications require the use of knowledge for explanations, the utilization of abductive reasoning in conjunction with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jiaxin Bai , Yicheng Wang , Tianshi Zheng , Yue Guo , Xin Liu , Yangqiu Song

Supervised learning depends on annotated examples, which are taken to be the \emph{ground truth}. But these labels often come from noisy crowdsourcing platforms, like Amazon Mechanical Turk. Practitioners typically collect multiple labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ashish Khetan , Zachary C. Lipton , Anima Anandkumar

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

Computer-aided diagnosis systems must make critical decisions from medical images that are often noisy, ambiguous, or conflicting, yet today's models are trained on overly simplistic labels that ignore diagnostic uncertainty. One-hot labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ang Nan Gu , Michael Tsang , Hooman Vaseli , Purang Abolmaesumi , Teresa Tsang

Learning and decision-making in domains with naturally high noise-to-signal ratio, such as Finance or Healthcare, is often challenging, while the stakes are very high. In this paper, we study the problem of learning and acting under a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yikai Zhang , Songzhu Zheng , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Pengxiang Wu , Anderson Schneider , Anant Raj , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Chao Chen

Label-noise or curated unlabeled data is used to compensate for the assumption of clean labeled data in training the conditional generative adversarial network; however, satisfying such an extended assumption is occasionally laborious or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kai Katsumata , Duc Minh Vo , Tatsuya Harada , Hideki Nakayama

Knowledge Graph (KG) errors introduce non-negligible noise, severely affecting KG-related downstream tasks. Detecting errors in KGs is challenging since the patterns of errors are unknown and diverse, while ground-truth labels are rare or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Qinggang Zhang , Junnan Dong , Keyu Duan , Xiao Huang , Yezi Liu , Linchuan Xu

We study the robustness to symmetric label noise of GNNs training procedures. By combining the nonlinear neural message-passing models (e.g. Graph Isomorphism Networks, GraphSAGE, etc.) with loss correction methods, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Hoang NT , Choong Jun Jin , Tsuyoshi Murata

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

Contrastive learning has shown outstanding performances in both supervised and unsupervised learning, and has recently been introduced to solve weakly supervised learning problems such as semi-supervised learning and noisy label learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jingyi Cui , Weiran Huang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

We motivate weakly supervised learning as an effective learning paradigm for problems where curating perfectly annotated datasets is expensive and may require domain expertise such as fine-grained classification. We focus on Partial Label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Darshana Saravanan , Naresh Manwani , Vineet Gandhi

One challenge in fact checking is the ability to improve the transparency of the decision. We present a fact checking method that uses reference information in knowledge graphs (KGs) to assess claims and explain its decisions. KGs contain a…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Naser Ahmadi , Joohyung Lee , Paolo Papotti , Mohammed Saeed

Self-play reinforcement learning has shown strong performance in domains with formally verifiable structure, such as mathematics and coding, where both problem generation and reward computation can be grounded in explicit rules. Extending…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hyobin Park , Taeseop Kim , Dong-Geol Choi

In a semi-supervised learning scenario, (possibly noisy) partially observed labels are used as input to train a classifier, in order to assign labels to unclassified samples. In this paper, we study this classifier learning problem from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Gene Cheung , Weng-Tai Su , Yu Mao , Chia-Wen Lin

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

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have seen significant success in tasks such as node classification, largely contingent upon the availability of sufficient labeled nodes. Yet, the excessive cost of labeling large-scale graphs led to a focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Hongliang Chi , Cong Qi , Suhang Wang , Yao Ma