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Partial-label learning (PLL) is an important weakly supervised learning problem, which allows each training example to have a candidate label set instead of a single ground-truth label. Identification-based methods have been widely explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shiyu Tian , Hongxin Wei , Yiqun Wang , Lei Feng

Pseudo-Labeling has emerged as a simple yet effective technique for semi-supervised object detection (SSOD). However, the inevitable noise problem in pseudo-labels significantly degrades the performance of SSOD methods. Recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Ke Liang , Yusong Tan , Zhengfa Liang , Yulan Guo

Partial-label learning (PLL) generally focuses on inducing a noise-tolerant multi-class classifier by training on overly-annotated samples, each of which is annotated with a set of labels, but only one is the valid label. A basic promise of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yunfeng Zhao , Guoxian Yu , Lei Liu , Zhongmin Yan , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi

Label smoothing (LS) is an arising learning paradigm that uses the positively weighted average of both the hard training labels and uniformly distributed soft labels. It was shown that LS serves as a regularizer for training data with hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jiaheng Wei , Hangyu Liu , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Yang Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer a means of addressing the challenging task of clustering high-dimensional data. DNNs can extract useful features, and so produce a lower dimensional representation, which is more amenable to clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Label noise in multi-label learning (MLL) poses significant challenges for model training, particularly in partial multi-label learning (PML) where candidate labels contain both relevant and irrelevant labels. While clustering offers a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Chen , Weijun Lv , Yue Huang , Xuhuan Zhu , Fang Li

In partial multi-label learning (PML), each instance is associated with a set of candidate labels containing both ground-truth and noisy labels. The presence of noisy labels disrupts the correspondence between features and labels, degrading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Chen , Weijun Lv , Yue Huang , Xiaozhao Fang , Jie Wen , Yong Xu , Guanbin Li

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

Partial label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning, where each sample is associated with a set of candidate labels. Its basic assumption is that the ground-truth label must be in the candidate set, but this assumption may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zheng Lian , Mingyu Xu , Lan Chen , Licai Sun , Bin Liu , Lei Feng , Jianhua Tao

The remarkable success of today's deep neural networks highly depends on a massive number of correctly labeled data. However, it is rather costly to obtain high-quality human-labeled data, leading to the active research area of training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jiacheng Wang , Yue Ma , Shuang Gao

Partial Label Learning (PLL) aims to train a classifier when each training instance is associated with a set of candidate labels, among which only one is correct but is not accessible during the training phase. The common strategy dealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yao Yao , Chen Gong , Jiehui Deng , Jian Yang

Pseudo Labeling is a technique used to improve the performance of semi-supervised Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by generating additional pseudo-labels based on confident predictions. However, the quality of generated pseudo-labels has been a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Weigang Lu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Yaming Yang , Yuanhai Lv , Lining Xing , Baosheng Yu , Dacheng Tao

In many applications, training machine learning models involves using large amounts of human-annotated data. Obtaining precise labels for the data is expensive. Instead, training with weak supervision provides a low-cost alternative. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

Acquiring accurate labels on large-scale datasets is both time consuming and expensive. To reduce the dependency of deep learning models on learning from clean labeled data, several recent research efforts are focused on learning with noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Arushi Goel , Yunlong Jiao , Jordan Massiah

As a promising solution of reducing annotation cost, training multi-label models with partial positive labels (MLR-PPL), in which merely few positive labels are known while other are missing, attracts increasing attention. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Tao Pu , Qianru Lao , Hefeng Wu , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin

Weak supervision allows machine learning models to learn from limited or noisy labels, but it introduces challenges in interpretability and reliability - particularly in multi-instance partial label learning (MI-PLL), where models must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nijesh Upreti , Vaishak Belle

Under partial-label learning (PLL) where, for each training instance, only a set of ambiguous candidate labels containing the unknown true label is accessible, contrastive learning has recently boosted the performance of PLL on vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Shiyu Xia , Jiaqi Lv , Ning Xu , Gang Niu , Xin Geng

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

Real-world data is frequently noisy and ambiguous. In crowdsourcing, for example, human annotators may assign conflicting class labels to the same instances. Partial-label learning (PLL) addresses this challenge by training classifiers when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Tobias Fuchs , Nadja Klein

In the weakly supervised learning paradigm, labeling functions automatically assign heuristic, often noisy, labels to data samples. In this work, we provide a method for learning from weak labels by separating two types of complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Andreas Stephan , Vasiliki Kougia , Benjamin Roth