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Semi-supervised multi-label learning (SSMLL) aims to address the challenge of limited labeled data in multi-label learning (MLL) by leveraging unlabeled data to improve the model's performance. While pseudo-labeling has become a dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Bo Han , Zhuoming Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Yaxin Hou , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Yuheng Jia

This paper proposes an introspective deep metric learning (IDML) framework for uncertainty-aware comparisons of images. Conventional deep metric learning methods focus on learning a discriminative embedding to describe the semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chengkun Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Pseudo-labels are confident predictions made on unlabeled target data by a classifier trained on labeled source data. They are widely used for adapting a model to unlabeled data, e.g., in a semi-supervised learning setting. Our key insight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Xudong Wang , Zhirong Wu , Long Lian , Stella X. Yu

Uncertainty quantification in automated image analysis is highly desired in many applications. Typically, machine learning models in classification or segmentation are only developed to provide binary answers; however, quantifying the…

Real-world data often contains intrinsic ambiguity that the common single-hard-label annotation paradigm ignores. Standard training using ambiguous data with these hard labels may produce overly confident models and thus leading to poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Zeke Xie , Zheng He , Nan Lu , Lichen Bai , Bao Li , Shuo Yang , Mingming Sun , Ping Li

Face recognition has advanced considerably with the availability of large-scale labeled datasets. However, how to further improve the performance with the easily accessible unlabeled dataset remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Haiming Yu , Yin Fan , Keyu Chen , He Yan , Xiangju Lu , Junhui Liu , Danming Xie

Learning unbiased models on imbalanced datasets is a significant challenge. Rare classes tend to get a concentrated representation in the classification space which hampers the generalization of learned boundaries to new test examples. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Waqas Zamir , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Recent advancements in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) and semi-supervised learning (SSL), particularly incorporating causality, have led to significant methodological improvements in these learning problems. However, a formal theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xuetong Wu , Mingming Gong , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

Neural sequence labeling (NSL) aims at assigning labels for input language tokens, which covers a broad range of applications, such as named entity recognition (NER) and slot filling, etc. However, the satisfying results achieved by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jianing Wang , Chengyu Wang , Jun Huang , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

The focus of this study is on Unsupervised Continual Learning (UCL), as it presents an alternative to Supervised Continual Learning which needs high-quality manual labeled data. The experiments under the UCL paradigm indicate a phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chen Cheng , Jingkuan Song , Xiaosu Zhu , Junchen Zhu , Lianli Gao , Hengtao Shen

Multi-label classification is an important learning problem with many applications. In this work, we propose a principled similarity-based approach for multi-label learning called SML. We also introduce a similarity-based approach for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Hoda Eldardiry , Rong Zhou

Machine learning catalyzes a revolution in chemical and biological science. However, its efficacy heavily depends on the availability of labeled data, and annotating biochemical data is extremely laborious. To surmount this data sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Fang Wu , Shuting Jin , Siyuan Li , Stan Z. Li

Recent success of large-scale pre-trained language models crucially hinge on fine-tuning them on large amounts of labeled data for the downstream task, that are typically expensive to acquire. In this work, we study self-training as one of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Subhabrata Mukherjee , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Open-set active learning (OSAL) aims to identify informative samples for annotation when unlabeled data may contain previously unseen classes-a common challenge in safety-critical and open-world scenarios. Existing approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chen-Chen Zong , Yu-Qi Chi , Xie-Yang Wang , Yan Cui , Sheng-Jun Huang

We demonstrate, theoretically and empirically, that adversarial robustness can significantly benefit from semisupervised learning. Theoretically, we revisit the simple Gaussian model of Schmidt et al. that shows a sample complexity gap…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-14 Yair Carmon , Aditi Raghunathan , Ludwig Schmidt , Percy Liang , John C. Duchi

Unpaired Multi-Modal Learning (UMML) which leverages unpaired multi-modal data to boost model performance on each individual modality has attracted a lot of research interests in medical image analysis. However, existing UMML methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Lei Zhu , Yanyu Xu , Huazhu Fu , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu

Recent years have witnessed a great success of supervised deep learning, where predictive models were trained from a large amount of fully labeled data. However, in practice, labeling such big data can be very costly and may not even be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yuting Tang , Nan Lu , Tianyi Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

Multi-label learning often requires identifying all relevant labels for training instances, but collecting full label annotations is costly and labor-intensive. In many datasets, only a single positive label is annotated per training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Misgina Tsighe Hagos , Claes Lundström

A common heuristic in semi-supervised deep learning (SSDL) is to select unlabelled data based on a notion of semantic similarity to the labelled data. For example, labelled images of numbers should be paired with unlabelled images of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Saul Calderon-Ramirez , Luis Oala

The existing active learning methods select the samples by evaluating the sample's uncertainty or its effect on the diversity of labeled datasets based on different task-specific or model-specific criteria. In this paper, we propose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhuoming Liu , Hao Ding , Huaping Zhong , Weijia Li , Jifeng Dai , Conghui He