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We address the issue of binary classification from positive and unlabeled data (PU classification) with a selection bias in the positive data. During the observation process, (i) a sample is exposed to a user, (ii) the user then returns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Masahiro Kato , Shuting Wu , Kodai Kureishi , Shota Yasui

Maximizing the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is a standard approach to imbalanced classification. So far, various supervised AUC optimization methods have been developed and they are also extended to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-12 Tomoya Sakai , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

The recent research in semi-supervised learning (SSL) is mostly dominated by consistency regularization based methods which achieve strong performance. However, they heavily rely on domain-specific data augmentations, which are not easy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Kevin Duarte , Yogesh S Rawat , Mubarak Shah

Multi-label classification (MLC) faces challenges from label noise in training data due to annotating diverse semantic labels for each image. Current methods mainly target identifying and correcting label mistakes using trained MLC models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zhixiang Yuan , Kaixin Zhang , Tao Huang

In binary classification, Learning from Positive and Unlabeled data (LePU) is semi-supervised learning but with labeled elements from only one class. Most of the research on LePU relies on some form of independence between the selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Naji Shajarisales , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

Domain Adaptation methodologies have shown to effectively generalize from a labeled source domain to a label scarce target domain. Previous research has either focused on unlabeled domain adaptation without any target supervision or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Jonas Sonntag , Gunnar Behrens , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

In this study, we propose a method for identifying potential customers in targeted marketing by applying learning from positive and unlabeled data (PU learning). We consider a scenario in which a company sells a product and can observe only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Masahiro Kato , Yuki Ikeda , Kentaro Baba , Takashi Imai , Ryo Inokuchi

Feature selection is essential for efficient data mining and sometimes encounters the positive-unlabeled (PU) learning scenario, where only a few positive labels are available, while most data remains unlabeled. In certain real-world PU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Motonobu Uchikoshi , Youhei Akimoto

Identifying and handling label errors can significantly enhance the accuracy of supervised machine learning models. Recent approaches for identifying label errors demonstrate that a low self-confidence of models with respect to a certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Johannes Jakubik , Michael Vössing , Manil Maskey , Christopher Wölfle , Gerhard Satzger

A common approach in positive-unlabeled learning is to train a classification model between labeled and unlabeled data. This strategy is in fact known to give an optimal classifier under mild conditions; however, it results in biased…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-03 Shantanu Jain , Martha White , Predrag Radivojac

We introduce a new observational setting for Positive Unlabeled (PU) data where the observations at prediction time are also labeled. This occurs commonly in practice -- we argue that the additional information is important for prediction,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-16 Jan Mielniczuk , Adam Wawrzeńczyk

Learning a classifier with control on the false-positive rate plays a critical role in many machine learning applications. Existing approaches either introduce prior knowledge dependent label cost or tune parameters based on traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Ao Zhang , Nan Li , Jian Pu , Jun Wang , Junchi Yan , Hongyuan Zha

Learning binary classifiers from positive and unlabeled data (PUL) is vital in many real-world applications, especially when verifying negative examples is difficult. Despite the impressive empirical performance of recent PUL methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xinrui Wang , Wenhai Wan , Chuanxin Geng , Shaoyuan LI , Songcan Chen

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

The need to learn from positive and unlabeled data, or PU learning, arises in many applications and has attracted increasing interest. While random forests are known to perform well on many tasks with positive and negative data, recent PU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jonathan Wilton , Abigail M. Y. Koay , Ryan K. L. Ko , Miao Xu , Nan Ye

Partial label learning deals with the problem where each training instance is assigned a set of candidate labels, only one of which is correct. This paper provides the first attempt to leverage the idea of self-training for dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Lei Feng , Bo An

Semi-supervised learning methods are motivated by the availability of large datasets with unlabeled features in addition to labeled data. Unlabeled data is, however, not guaranteed to improve classification performance and has in fact been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-25 Xiuming Liu , Dave Zachariah , Johan Wågberg , Thomas B. Schön

This paper explores the relatively underexplored application of Positive Unlabeled (PU) Learning and Negative Unlabeled (NU) Learning in the cybersecurity domain. While these semi-supervised learning methods have been applied successfully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Robert Dilworth , Charan Gudla

Automated code vulnerability detection has gained increasing attention in recent years. The deep learning (DL)-based methods, which implicitly learn vulnerable code patterns, have proven effective in vulnerability detection. The performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xin-Cheng Wen , Xinchen Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Shaohua Wang , Yang Liu , Zhaoquan Gu

Positive-unlabeled learning (PU learning) in hyperspectral remote sensing imagery (HSI) is aimed at learning a binary classifier from positive and unlabeled data, which has broad prospects in various earth vision applications. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hengwei Zhao , Xinyu Wang , Jingtao Li , Yanfei Zhong