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Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Liyun Zeng , Hao Helen Zhang

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

Programmatic Weak Supervision (PWS) and generative models serve as crucial tools that enable researchers to maximize the utility of existing datasets without resorting to laborious data gathering and manual annotation processes. PWS uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kumar Shubham , Pranav Sastry , Prathosh AP

Weakly-supervised salient object detection (WSOD) aims to develop saliency models using image-level annotations. Despite of the success of previous works, explorations on an effective training strategy for the saliency network and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhengxuan Ma , Huchuan Lu

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) performs pixel-wise classification given only image-level labels for training. Despite the difficulty of this task, the research community has achieved promising results over the last five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Cheolhyun Mun , Sanghuk Lee , Youngjung Uh , Junsuk Choe , Hyeran Byun

As machine learning models continue to increase in complexity, collecting large hand-labeled training sets has become one of the biggest roadblocks in practice. Instead, weaker forms of supervision that provide noisier but cheaper labels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Alexander Ratner , Braden Hancock , Jared Dunnmon , Frederic Sala , Shreyash Pandey , Christopher Ré

3D medical image segmentation is a challenging task with crucial implications for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Recent advances in deep learning have significantly enhanced fully supervised medical image segmentation. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Runmin Jiang , Zhaoxin Fan , Junhao Wu , Lenghan Zhu , Xin Huang , Tianyang Wang , Heng Huang , Min Xu

Software vulnerability detection has emerged as a significant concern in the field of software security recently, capturing the attention of numerous researchers and developers. Most previous approaches focus on coarse-grained vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wenchao Gu , Yupan Chen , Yanlin Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

Fair credit assignment is essential in various machine learning (ML) applications, and Shapley values have emerged as a valuable tool for this purpose. However, in critical ML applications such as data valuation and feature attribution, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Pranoy Panda , Siddharth Tandon , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Data valuation has found various applications in machine learning, such as data filtering, efficient learning and incentives for data sharing. The most popular current approach to data valuation is the Shapley value. While popular for its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Lauren Watson , Zeno Kujawa , Rayna Andreeva , Hao-Tsung Yang , Tariq Elahi , Rik Sarkar

Most micro- and macro-expression spotting methods in untrimmed videos suffer from the burden of video-wise collection and frame-wise annotation. Weakly-supervised expression spotting (WES) based on video-level labels can potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wang-Wang Yu , Kai-Fu Yang , Hong-Mei Yan , Yong-Jie Li

Weakly supervised object detection(WSOD) task uses only image-level annotations to train object detection task. WSOD does not require time-consuming instance-level annotations, so the study of this task has attracted more and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sheng Yi , Xi Li , Huimin Ma

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task as it only takes image-level information as supervision for training but produces pixel-level predictions for testing. To address such a challenging task, most recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yunchao Wei , Mingjie Sun , Kaizhu Huang

Programmatic Weak Supervision (PWS) has emerged as a widespread paradigm to synthesize training labels efficiently. The core component of PWS is the label model, which infers true labels by aggregating the outputs of multiple noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jieyu Zhang , Linxin Song , Alexander Ratner

Automated data preparation pipeline construction is critical for machine learning success, yet existing methods suffer from two fundamental limitations: they treat pipeline construction as black-box optimization without quantifying…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jing Chang , Chang Liu , Jinbin Huang , Shuyuan Zheng , Rui Mao , Jianbin Qin

The increasing complexity of foundational models underscores the necessity for explainability, particularly for fine-tuning, the most widely used training method for adapting models to downstream tasks. Instance attribution, one type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jingtan Wang , Xiaoqiang Lin , Rui Qiao , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) has emerged as a solution to mitigate the conflict between annotation cost and model performance by adopting sparse annotation formats (e.g., point, scribble, block, etc.). Typical approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Y. Liu , L. Lin , K. K. Y. Wong , X. Tang

Shapley values have been used extensively in machine learning, not only to explain black box machine learning models, but among other tasks, also to conduct model debugging, sensitivity and fairness analyses and to select important features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Iqbal Madakkatel , Elina Hyppönen

With the abundance of industrial datasets, imbalanced classification has become a common problem in several application domains. Oversampling is an effective method to solve imbalanced classification. One of the main challenges of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Min Qian , Yan-Fu Li