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Positive-unlabeled learning (PUL) aims at learning a binary classifier from only positive and unlabeled training data. Even though real-world applications often involve imbalanced datasets where the majority of examples belong to one class,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Emilio Dorigatti , Jann Goschenhofer , Benjamin Schubert , Mina Rezaei , Bernd Bischl

When learning from positive and unlabelled data, it is a strong assumption that the positive observations are randomly sampled from the distribution of $X$ conditional on $Y = 1$, where X stands for the feature and Y the label. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Fengxiang He , Tongliang Liu , Geoffrey I Webb , Dacheng Tao

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) Learning is a challenge presented by binary classification problems where there is an abundance of unlabeled data along with a small number of positive data instances, which can be used to address chronic disease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yang Wu , Xurui Li , Xuhong Zhang , Yangyang Kang , Changlong Sun , Xiaozhong Liu

Document set expansion aims to identify relevant documents from a large collection based on a small set of documents that are on a fine-grained topic. Previous work shows that PU learning is a promising method for this task. However, some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Haiyang Zhang , Qiuyi Chen , Yuanjie Zou , Yushan Pan , Jia Wang , Mark Stevenson

Positive unlabeled (PU) learning is useful in various practical situations, where there is a need to learn a classifier for a class of interest from an unlabeled data set, which may contain anomalies as well as samples from unknown classes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Emanuele Sansone , Francesco G. B. De Natale , Zhi-Hua Zhou

In automatic emotion recognition (AER), labels assigned by different human annotators to the same utterance are often inconsistent due to the inherent complexity of emotion and the subjectivity of perception. Though deterministic labels…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Learning from positive and unlabeled data is known as positive-unlabeled (PU) learning in literature and has attracted much attention in recent years. One common approach in PU learning is to sample a set of pseudo-negatives from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Zhangchi Zhu , Lu Wang , Pu Zhao , Chao Du , Wei Zhang , Hang Dong , Bo Qiao , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang

Many real-world applications have to tackle the Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning problem, i.e., learning binary classifiers from a large amount of unlabeled data and a few labeled positive examples. While current state-of-the-art methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Xuxi Chen , Wuyang Chen , Tianlong Chen , Ye Yuan , Chen Gong , Kewei Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Positive-unlabeled learning refers to the process of training a binary classifier using only positive and unlabeled data. Although unlabeled data can contain positive data, all unlabeled data are regarded as negative data in existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Daiki Tanaka , Daiki Ikami , Kiyoharu Aizawa

With surge of available but unlabeled data, Positive Unlabeled (PU) learning is becoming a thriving challenge. This work deals with this demanding task for which recent GAN-based PU approaches have demonstrated promising results. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Florent Chiaroni , Ghazaleh Khodabandelou , Mohamed-Cherif Rahal , Nicolas Hueber , Frederic Dufaux

Pretext Invariant Representation Learning (PIRL) followed by Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) has become a standard paradigm for learning with limited labels. We extend this approach to the Positive Unlabeled (PU) setting, where only a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Anish Acharya , Li Jing , Bhargav Bhushanam , Dhruv Choudhary , Michael Rabbat , Sujay Sanghavi , Inderjit S Dhillon

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

Positive-unlabeled (PU) learning aims to train a classifier using the data containing only labeled-positive instances and unlabeled instances. However, existing PU learning methods are generally hard to achieve satisfactory performance on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-03 Xiaoke Wang , Xiaochen Yang , Rui Zhu , Jing-Hao Xue

Learning from positive and unlabeled data (PU learning) is actively researched machine learning task. The goal is to train a binary classification model based on a training dataset containing part of positives which are labeled, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-29 Wojciech Rejchel , Paweł Teisseyre , Jan Mielniczuk

Complementary-label learning is a weakly supervised learning problem in which each training example is associated with one or multiple complementary labels indicating the classes to which it does not belong. Existing consistent approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Wei Wang , Takashi Ishida , Yu-Jie Zhang , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

In this work, we explore the way to perform named entity recognition (NER) using only unlabeled data and named entity dictionaries. To this end, we formulate the task as a positive-unlabeled (PU) learning problem and accordingly propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Minlong Peng , Xiaoyu Xing , Qi Zhang , Jinlan Fu , Xuanjing Huang

We study the problem of fair binary classification using the notion of Equal Opportunity. It requires the true positive rate to distribute equally across the sensitive groups. Within this setting we show that the fair optimal classifier is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Evgenii Chzhen , Christophe Denis , Mohamed Hebiri , Luca Oneto , Massimiliano Pontil

We propose a novel framework for incorporating unlabeled data into semi-supervised classification problems, where scenarios involving the minimization of either i) adversarially robust or ii) non-robust loss functions have been considered.…

Document-level relation extraction (RE) aims to identify relations between entities across multiple sentences. Most previous methods focused on document-level RE under full supervision. However, in real-world scenario, it is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ye Wang , Xinxin Liu , Wenxin Hu , Tao Zhang

The positive-unlabeled (PU) classification is a common scenario in real-world applications such as healthcare, text classification, and bioinformatics, in which we only observe a few samples labeled as "positive" together with a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Ke Ren , Haichuan Yang , Yu Zhao , Mingshan Xue , Hongyu Miao , Shuai Huang , Ji Liu