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This paper explores the application of Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning for enhanced Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) detection in cloud environments. Utilizing the $\texttt{BCCC-cPacket-Cloud-DDoS-2024}$ dataset, we implement PU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Robert Dilworth , Charan Gudla

Many attempts have been done to extend the great success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieved on high-end GPU servers to portable devices such as smart phones. Providing compression and acceleration service of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Yixing Xu , Yunhe Wang , Hanting Chen , Kai Han , Chunjing Xu , Dacheng Tao , Chang Xu

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a popular setting aiming to effectively utilize unlabelled data to improve model performance in downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Currently, there are two popular approaches to make use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhengxiang Shi , Francesco Tonolini , Nikolaos Aletras , Emine Yilmaz , Gabriella Kazai , Yunlong Jiao

Partial label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning problem, where each training example is associated with a set of candidate labels among which only one is true. Most existing PLL approaches assume that the incorrect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ning Xu , Congyu Qiao , Xin Geng , Min-Ling Zhang

We study the problem of robust learning under clean-label data-poisoning attacks, where the attacker injects (an arbitrary set of) correctly-labeled examples to the training set to fool the algorithm into making mistakes on specific test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Jian Qian , Han Shao

Conventional semi-supervised learning (SSL) ideally assumes that labeled and unlabeled data share an identical class distribution, however in practice, this assumption is easily violated, as unlabeled data often includes unknown class data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Heejo Kong , Sung-Jin Kim , Gunho Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

Existing algorithms aiming to learn a binary classifier from positive (P) and unlabeled (U) data generally require estimating the class prior or label noises ahead of building a classification model. However, the estimation and classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Tianyu Li , Chien-Chih Wang , Yukun Ma , Patricia Ortal , Qifang Zhao , Bjorn Stenger , Yu Hirate

In recent years, deep discriminative models have achieved extraordinary performance on supervised learning tasks, significantly outperforming their generative counterparts. However, their success relies on the presence of a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Gaurav Pandey , Ambedkar Dukkipati

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

Automatic speaker verification task has made great achievements using deep learning approaches with the large-scale manually annotated dataset. However, it's very difficult and expensive to collect a large amount of well-labeled data for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Bing Han , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian

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

Deep learning (DL) algorithms rely on massive amounts of labeled data. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) and active learning (AL) aim to reduce this label complexity by leveraging unlabeled data or carefully acquiring labels, respectively. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Seo Taek Kong , Soomin Jeon , Dongbin Na , Jaewon Lee , Hong-Seok Lee , Kyu-Hwan Jung

Entailment has been recognized as an important metric for evaluating natural language understanding (NLU) models, and recent studies have found that entailment pretraining benefits weakly supervised fine-tuning. In this work, we design a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiaxin Ge , Hongyin Luo , Yoon Kim , James Glass

Training of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with data with noisy labels is known to be a challenge. Based on the fact that directly providing the label to the data (Positive Learning; PL) has a risk of allowing CNNs to memorize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Youngdong Kim , Juseung Yun , Hyounguk Shon , Junmo Kim

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) effectively leverages unlabeled data and has been proven successful across various fields. Current safe SSL methods believe that unseen classes in unlabeled data harm the performance of SSL models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rundong He , Yicong Dong , Lanzhe Guo , Yilong Yin , Tailin Wu

Learning control policies offline from pre-recorded datasets is a promising avenue for solving challenging real-world problems. However, available datasets are typically of mixed quality, with a limited number of the trajectories that we…

Log anomaly detection plays a critical role in ensuring the stability and reliability of software systems. However, existing approaches rely on large amounts of labeled log data, which poses significant challenges in real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinlong Zhao , Tong Jia , Minghua He , Yihan Wu , Ying Li , Gang Huang

Supervised-learning-based vulnerability detectors often fall short due to limited labelled training data. In contrast, Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are trained on vast unlabelled code corpora, yet perform only marginally better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Weizhou Wang , Eric Liu , Xiangyu Guo , Xiao Hu , Ilya Grishchenko , David Lie

Weakly supervised data are widespread and have attracted much attention. However, since label quality is often difficult to guarantee, sometimes the use of weakly supervised data will lead to unsatisfactory performance, i.e., performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li , Ming Li , Jin-Feng Yi , Bo-Wen Zhou , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods assume that labeled data, unlabeled data and test data are from the same distribution. Open-set semi-supervised learning (Open-set SSL) considers a more practical scenario, where unlabeled data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yang Yu , Danruo Deng , Furui Liu , Yueming Jin , Qi Dou , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng