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Self-training methods have proven to be effective in exploiting abundant unlabeled data in semi-supervised learning, particularly when labeled data is scarce. While many of these approaches rely on a cross-entropy loss function (CE), recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Aurelien Gauffre , Julien Horvat , Massih-Reza Amini

In cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER), self-training is commonly used to bridge the linguistic gap by training on pseudo-labeled target-language data. However, due to sub-optimal performance on target languages, the pseudo labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ran Zhou , Xin Li , Lidong Bing , Erik Cambria , Chunyan Miao

Dataset pruning reduces the storage and training costs of deep learning by selecting an informative subset from a large dataset. However, most existing pruning methods require fully labeled data, which limits their applicability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yeseul Cho , Baekrok Shin , Changmin Kang , Chulhee Yun

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

Semi-supervised learning is attracting blooming attention, due to its success in combining unlabeled data. To mitigate potentially incorrect pseudo labels, recent frameworks mostly set a fixed confidence threshold to discard uncertain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Lihe Yang , Zhen Zhao , Lei Qi , Yu Qiao , Yinghuan Shi , Hengshuang Zhao

Recent semi-supervised learning methods use pseudo supervision as core idea, especially self-training methods that generate pseudo labels. However, pseudo labels are unreliable. Self-training methods usually rely on single model prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Zhengyang Feng , Qianyu Zhou , Qiqi Gu , Xin Tan , Guangliang Cheng , Xuequan Lu , Jianping Shi , Lizhuang Ma

In numerous practical applications, acquiring substantial quantities of labelled data is challenging and expensive, but unlabelled data is readily accessible. Conventional supervised learning methods frequently underperform in scenarios…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Anusree M , Akhila Henry , Pramod P Nair

Consistency learning plays a crucial role in semi-supervised medical image segmentation as it enables the effective utilization of limited annotated data while leveraging the abundance of unannotated data. The effectiveness and efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zhenxi Zhang , Ran Ran , Chunna Tian , Heng Zhou , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Zhicheng Jiao

In cross-lingual text classification, one seeks to exploit labeled data from one language to train a text classification model that can then be applied to a completely different language. Recent multilingual representation models have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Xin Dong , Yaxin Zhu , Yupeng Zhang , Zuohui Fu , Dongkuan Xu , Sen Yang , Gerard de Melo

Semi-Supervised Text Classification (SSTC) mainly works under the spirit of self-training. They initialize the deep classifier by training over labeled texts; and then alternatively predict unlabeled texts as their pseudo-labels and train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Changchun Li , Ximing Li , Bingjie Zhang , Wenting Wang , Jihong Ouyang

It is well known that the success of deep neural networks is greatly attributed to large-scale labeled datasets. However, it can be extremely time-consuming and laborious to collect sufficient high-quality labeled data in most practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Yao Yao , Junyi Shen , Jin Xu , Bin Zhong , Li Xiao

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

A recently-proposed technique called self-adaptive training augments modern neural networks by allowing them to adjust training labels on the fly, to avoid overfitting to samples that may be mislabeled or otherwise non-representative. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Daniel Chiu , Franklyn Wang , Scott Duke Kominers

Recent semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods are commonly based on pseudo labeling. Since the SSL performance is greatly influenced by the quality of pseudo labels, mutual learning has been proposed to effectively suppress the noises in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Pan Zhang , Bo Zhang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

Semi-supervised learning aims to leverage a large amount of unlabeled data for performance boosting. Existing works primarily focus on image classification. In this paper, we delve into semi-supervised learning for object detection, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhenyu Wang , Yali Li , Ye Guo , Shengjin Wang

Self-training methods have been explored in recent years and have exhibited great performance in improving semi-supervised learning. This work presents a Simple instance-Adaptive self-Training method (SAT) for semi-supervised text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Hui Chen , Wei Han , Soujanya Poria

Deep neural models have achieved state of the art performance on a wide range of problems in computer science, especially in computer vision. However, deep neural networks often require large datasets of labeled samples to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Patrick Kage , Jay C. Rothenberger , Pavlos Andreadis , Dimitrios I. Diochnos

In this study we address the problem of training a neuralnetwork for language identification using both labeled and unlabeled speech samples in the form of i-vectors. We propose a neural network architecture that can also handle out-of-set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Ehud Ben-Reuven , Jacob Goldberger

Large datasets in NLP suffer from noisy labels, due to erroneous automatic and human annotation procedures. We study the problem of text classification with label noise, and aim to capture this noise through an auxiliary noise model over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Siddhant Garg , Goutham Ramakrishnan , Varun Thumbe

We revisit self-training in the context of end-to-end speech recognition. We demonstrate that training with pseudo-labels can substantially improve the accuracy of a baseline model. Key to our approach are a strong baseline acoustic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Jacob Kahn , Ann Lee , Awni Hannun