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Protecting privileged communications and data from inadvertent disclosure is a paramount task in the US legal practice. Traditionally counsels rely on keyword searching and manual review to identify privileged documents in cases. As data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Haozhen Zhao , Shi Ye , Jingchao Yang

Training foundation models is computationally intensive and often slow to converge. We introduce PIQL,Privileged Information for Quick and Quality Learning, the first framework to systematically integrate privileged information (PI) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xueying Ding , Leman Akoglu

Knowledge transfer is shown to be a very successful technique for training neural classifiers: together with the ground truth data, it uses the "privileged information" (PI) obtained by a "teacher" network to train a "student" network. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Arman Rahbar , Ashkan Panahi , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya , Devdatt Dubhashi , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

Supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning estimate a function given input/output samples. Generalization of the learned function to unseen data can be improved by incorporating side information into learning. Side information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Rico Jonschkowski , Sebastian Höfer , Oliver Brock

Natural language inference (NLI) is among the most challenging tasks in natural language understanding. Recent work on unsupervised pretraining that leverages unsupervised signals such as language-model and sentence prediction objectives…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Tianda Li , Xiaodan Zhu , Quan Liu , Qian Chen , Zhigang Chen , Si Wei

Learning using privileged information (LUPI) paradigm, which pioneered teacher-student interaction mechanism, makes the learning models use additional information in training stage. This paper is the first to propose an incremental learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yanshuang Ao , Xinyu Zhou , Wei Dai

Transfer learning involves taking information and insight from one problem domain and applying it to a new problem domain. Although widely used in practice, theory for transfer learning remains less well-developed. To address this, we prove…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-24 Jake Williams , Abel Tadesse , Tyler Sam , Huey Sun , George D. Montanez

In this paper, we propose a novel regression-based method for employing privileged information to estimate the height using human metrology. The actual values of the anthropometric measurements are difficult to estimate accurately using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Christophoros Nikou , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Various strategies for label-scarce object detection have been explored by the computer vision research community. These strategies mainly rely on assumptions that are specific to natural images and not directly applicable to the biological…

Label noise is a pervasive problem in deep learning that often compromises the generalization performance of trained models. Recently, leveraging privileged information (PI) -- information available only during training but not at test time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ke Wang , Guillermo Ortiz-Jimenez , Rodolphe Jenatton , Mark Collier , Efi Kokiopoulou , Pascal Frossard

Supervised learning datasets often have privileged information, in the form of features which are available at training time but are not available at test time e.g. the ID of the annotator that provided the label. We argue that privileged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Mark Collier , Rodolphe Jenatton , Efi Kokiopoulou , Jesse Berent

Preoperative prognosis of Ependymoma is critical for treatment planning but challenging due to the lack of semantic insights in MRI compared to post-operative surgical reports. Existing multimodal methods fail to leverage this privileged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Shuren Gabriel Yu , Sikang Ren , Yongji Tian

Transfer learning is a valuable tool in deep learning as it allows propagating information from one "source dataset" to another "target dataset", especially in the case of a small number of training examples in the latter. Yet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Daniel Jakubovitz , David Uliel , Miguel Rodrigues , Raja Giryes

Semi-supervised learning is a setting in which one has labeled and unlabeled data available. In this survey we explore different types of theoretical results when one uses unlabeled data in classification and regression tasks. Most methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Alexander Mey , Marco Loog

Transductive learning is a supervised machine learning task in which, unlike in traditional inductive learning, the unlabelled data that require labelling are a finite set and are available at training time. Similarly to inductive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Lorenzo Volpi , Alejandro Moreo , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Semi-supervised learning is a powerful technique for leveraging unlabeled data to improve machine learning models, but it can be affected by the presence of ``informative'' labels, which occur when some classes are more likely to be labeled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-16 Aude Sportisse , Hugo Schmutz , Olivier Humbert , Charles Bouveyron , Pierre-Alexandre Mattei

Modern machine learning systems use models trained on ever-growing corpora. Typically, metadata such as ownership, access control, or licensing information is ignored during training. Instead, to mitigate privacy risks, we rely on generic…

A key challenge of affective computing research is discovering ways to reliably transfer affect models that are built in the laboratory to real world settings, namely in the wild. The existing gap between in vitro and in vivo affect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Konstantinos Makantasis , David Melhart , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

We study the supervised learning paradigm called Learning Using Privileged Information, first suggested by Vapnik and Vashist (2009). In this paradigm, in addition to the examples and labels, additional (privileged) information is provided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Michal Sharoni , Sivan Sabato

Discovering novel high-level concepts is one of the most important steps needed for human-level AI. In inductive logic programming (ILP), discovering novel high-level concepts is known as predicate invention (PI). Although seen as crucial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Andrew Cropper , Rolf Morel