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Training a classifier exploiting a huge amount of supervised data is expensive or even prohibited in a situation, where the labeling cost is high. The remarkable progress in working with weaker forms of supervision is binary classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yuhao Wu , Xiaobo Xia , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Tongliang Liu

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

Dataset bias is a critical challenge in machine learning since it often leads to a negative impact on a model due to the unintended decision rules captured by spurious correlations. Although existing works often handle this issue based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Seonguk Seo , Joon-Young Lee , Bohyung Han

Metric learning is an important problem in machine learning. It aims to group similar examples together. Existing state-of-the-art metric learning approaches require class labels to learn a metric. As obtaining class labels in all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Ujjal Kr Dutta , Mehrtash Harandi , Chellu Chandra Sekhar

Bias in computer vision systems can perpetuate or even amplify discrimination against certain populations. Considering that bias is often introduced by biased visual datasets, many recent research efforts focus on training fair models using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Christos Diou

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a practical alternative to fully supervised learning when complete and accurate labels are costly or infeasible to acquire. However, many existing methods are tailored to specific supervision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Miao Zhang , Junpeng Li , Changchun Hua , Yana Yang

This paper presents one-bit supervision, a novel setting of learning from incomplete annotations, in the scenario of image classification. Instead of training a model upon the accurate label of each sample, our setting requires the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Hengtong Hu , Lingxi Xie , Zewei Du , Richang Hong , Qi Tian

Label noise - incorrect labels assigned to observations - can substantially degrade the performance of supervised classifiers. This paper proposes a label noise cleaning method based on Bernoulli random sampling. We show that the mean label…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Yuxin Liu , Xiong Jin , Yang Han

The need for labeled data is among the most common and well-known practical obstacles to deploying deep learning algorithms to solve real-world problems. The current generation of learning algorithms requires a large volume of data labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Aaron Reite , Scott Kangas , Zackery Steck , Steven Goley , Jonathan Von Stroh , Steven Forsyth

Quantification, variously called "supervised prevalence estimation" or "learning to quantify", is the supervised learning task of generating predictors of the relative frequencies (a.k.a. "prevalence values") of the classes of interest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Alejandro Moreo , Manuel Francisco , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Fully supervised object detection requires training images in which all instances are annotated. This is actually impractical due to the high labor and time costs and the unavoidable missing annotations. As a result, the incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Haohan Wang , Liang Liu , Boshen Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Wuhao Zhang , Zhenye Gan , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Haoqian Wang

Causal effect estimation (CEE) provides a crucial tool for predicting the unobserved counterfactual outcome for an entity. As CEE relaxes the requirement for ``perfect'' counterfactual samples (e.g., patients with identical attributes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Hechuan Wen , Tong Chen , Guanhua Ye , Li Kheng Chai , Shazia Sadiq , Hongzhi Yin

Visual attributes, which refer to human-labeled semantic annotations, have gained increasing popularity in a wide range of real world applications. Generally, the existing attribute learning methods fall into two categories: one focuses on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Protecting user privacy is a major concern for many machine learning systems that are deployed at scale and collect from a diverse set of population. One way to address this concern is by collecting and releasing data labels in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Lin Chen , Gang Fu , Amin Karbasi , Vahab Mirrokni

In this paper, we address the problem of class-generalizable anomaly detection, where the objective is to develop a unified model by focusing our learning on the available normal data and a small amount of anomaly data in order to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Padmaksha Roy , Lamine Mili , Almuatazbellah Boker

Partial-label learning is a popular weakly supervised learning setting that allows each training example to be annotated with a set of candidate labels. Previous studies on partial-label learning only focused on the classification setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xin Cheng , Deng-Bao Wang , Lei Feng , Min-Ling Zhang , Bo An

There has been increased interest in devising learning techniques that combine unlabeled data with labeled data ? i.e. semi-supervised learning. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has been performed across various techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-12 N. V. Chawla , Grigoris Karakoulas

For many interesting tasks, such as medical diagnosis and web page classification, a learner only has access to some positively labeled examples and many unlabeled examples. Learning from this type of data requires making assumptions about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jessa Bekker , Jesse Davis

A supervised learning framework has been proposed for the situation where each training data is provided with a complementary label that represents a class to which the pattern does not belong. In the existing literature,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yasuhiro Katsura , Masato Uchida

Detecting anomalies in images and video is an essential task for multiple real-world problems, including industrial inspection, computer-assisted diagnosis, and environmental monitoring. Anomaly detection is typically formulated as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Declan McIntosh , Alexandra Branzan Albu