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In modern scientific applications, large volumes of covariate data are readily available, while outcome labels are costly, sparse, and often subject to distribution shift. This asymmetry has spurred interest in semi-supervised (SS)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Lorenzo Testa , Qi Xu , Jing Lei , Kathryn Roeder

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is a common approach to learning predictive models using not only labeled examples, but also unlabeled examples. While SSL for the simple tasks of classification and regression has received a lot of attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jurica Levatić , Michelangelo Ceci , Dragi Kocev , Sašo Džeroski

In supervised learning, we typically leverage a fully labeled dataset to design methods for function estimation or prediction. In many practical situations, we are able to obtain alternative feedback, possibly at a low cost. A broad goal is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Yichong Xu , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Aarti Singh , Artur Dubrawski

In Semi-Supervised Semi-Private (SP) learning, the learner has access to both public unlabelled and private labelled data. We propose a computationally efficient algorithm that, under mild assumptions on the data, provably achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Francesco Pinto , Yaxi Hu , Fanny Yang , Amartya Sanyal

Leveraging unlabelled data through weak or distant supervision is a compelling approach to developing more effective text classification models. This paper proposes a simple but effective data augmentation method, which leverages the idea…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qin Ruan , Brian Mac Namee , Ruihai Dong

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

Sparse coding approximates the data sample as a sparse linear combination of some basic codewords and uses the sparse codes as new presentations. In this paper, we investigate learning discriminative sparse codes by sparse coding in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-19 Jim Jing-Yan Wang , Xin Gao

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a powerful framework for leveraging unlabeled data when labels are limited or expensive to obtain. SSL algorithms based on deep neural networks have recently proven successful on standard benchmark…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Jiaxing Wang , Yin Zheng , Xiaoshuang Chen , Junzhou Huang , Jian Cheng

State-of-the-art deep learning models are often trained with a large amount of costly labeled training data. However, requiring exhaustive manual annotations may degrade the model's generalizability in the limited-label regime.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yanbei Chen , Massimiliano Mancini , Xiatian Zhu , Zeynep Akata

Semisupervised learning has emerged as a popular framework for improving modeling accuracy while controlling labeling cost. Based on an extension of stochastic composite likelihood we quantify the asymptotic accuracy of generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-02 Joshua V Dillon , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Guy Lebanon

Semi-supervised learning has been well developed to help reduce the cost of manual labelling by exploiting a large quantity of unlabelled data. Especially in the application of land cover classification, pixel-level manual labelling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Wanli Ma , Oktay Karakus , Paul L. Rosin

Reducing the amount of labels required to train convolutional neural networks without performance degradation is key to effectively reduce human annotation efforts. We propose Reliable Label Bootstrapping (ReLaB), an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Paul Albert , Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

In this paper we revisit the idea of pseudo-labeling in the context of semi-supervised learning where a learning algorithm has access to a small set of labeled samples and a large set of unlabeled samples. Pseudo-labeling works by applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Fuwen Tan , Yanjun Qi , Vicente Ordonez

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

Prior works have shown that semi-supervised learning algorithms can leverage unlabeled data to improve over the labeled sample complexity of supervised learning (SL) algorithms. However, existing theoretical analyses focus on regimes where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Alexandru Ţifrea , Gizem Yüce , Amartya Sanyal , Fanny Yang

Deep neural networks produce state-of-the-art results when trained on a large number of labeled examples but tend to overfit when small amounts of labeled examples are used for training. Creating a large number of labeled examples requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Attaullah Sahito , Eibe Frank , Bernhard Pfahringer

Sparse linear regression -- finding an unknown vector from linear measurements -- is now known to be possible with fewer samples than variables, via methods like the LASSO. We consider the multiple sparse linear regression problem, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Ali Jalali , Pradeep Ravikumar , Sujay Sanghavi

Semi-supervised learning lately has shown much promise in improving deep learning models when labeled data is scarce. Common among recent approaches is the use of consistency training on a large amount of unlabeled data to constrain model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Qizhe Xie , Zihang Dai , Eduard Hovy , Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le

Label-free model evaluation, or AutoEval, estimates model accuracy on unlabeled test sets, and is critical for understanding model behaviors in various unseen environments. In the absence of image labels, based on dataset representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Xiaoxiao Sun , Yunzhong Hou , Hongdong Li , Liang Zheng

A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kyle Hsu , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn