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In the absence of large labelled datasets, self-supervised learning techniques can boost performance by learning useful representations from unlabelled data, which is often more readily available. However, there is often a domain shift…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Linus Ericsson , Henry Gouk , Timothy M. Hospedales

Conventional reward modeling relies on gradient descent over neural weights, creating opaque, data-hungry "black boxes." We propose a paradigm shift from implicit to explicit reward parameterization, recasting optimization from continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Lipeng Xie , Sen Huang , Zhuo Zhang , Anni Zou , Yunpeng Zhai , Dingchao Ren , Kezun Zhang , Haoyuan Hu , Boyin Liu , Haoran Chen , Zhaoyang Liu , Bolin Ding

Language models often struggle to follow multi-constraint instructions that are crucial for real-world applications. Existing reinforcement learning (RL) approaches suffer from dependency on external supervision and sparse reward signals…

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Constraint-based learning reduces the burden of collecting labels by having users specify general properties of structured outputs, such as constraints imposed by physical laws. We propose a novel framework for simultaneously learning these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Hongyu Ren , Russell Stewart , Jiaming Song , Volodymyr Kuleshov , Stefano Ermon

Where do learning signals come from when there is no ground truth in post-training? We show that inference compute itself can serve as supervision. By generating parallel rollouts and converting them into reference estimates, models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dulhan Jayalath , Shashwat Goel , Thomas Foster , Parag Jain , Suchin Gururangan , Cheng Zhang , Anirudh Goyal , Alan Schelten

Preference-based reinforcement learning (RL) has shown potential for teaching agents to perform the target tasks without a costly, pre-defined reward function by learning the reward with a supervisor's preference between the two agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jongjin Park , Younggyo Seo , Jinwoo Shin , Honglak Lee , Pieter Abbeel , Kimin Lee

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

Perceiving the world and forecasting its future state is a critical task for self-driving. Supervised approaches leverage annotated object labels to learn a model of the world -- traditionally with object detections and trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ben Agro , Quinlan Sykora , Sergio Casas , Thomas Gilles , Raquel Urtasun

Consequential decisions are increasingly informed by sophisticated data-driven predictive models. However, to consistently learn accurate predictive models, one needs access to ground truth labels. Unfortunately, in practice, labels may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Niki Kilbertus , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez , Bernhard Schölkopf , Krikamol Muandet , Isabel Valera

Deep Learning heavily depends on large labeled datasets which limits further improvements. While unlabeled data is available in large amounts, in particular in image recognition, it does not fulfill the closed world assumption of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Maximilian Augustin , Matthias Hein

Long-term fairness algorithms aim to satisfy fairness beyond static and short-term notions by accounting for the dynamics between decision-making policies and population behavior. Most previous approaches evaluate performance and fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Giovani Valdrighi , Isabel Valera , Marcos Medeiros Raimundo

By training to predict the next token in an unlabeled corpus, large language models learn to perform many tasks without any labeled data. However, their next-token-prediction objective arguably limits their performance in scenarios that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Nathan Cornille , Marie-Francine Moens , Florian Mai

Semi-supervised learning leverages unlabeled data to enhance model performance, addressing the limitations of fully supervised approaches. Among its strategies, pseudo-supervision has proven highly effective, typically relying on one or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Negin Ghamsarian , Sahar Nasirihaghighi , Klaus Schoeffmann , Raphael Sznitman

Deep learning perception models require a massive amount of labeled training data to achieve good performance. While unlabeled data is easy to acquire, the cost of labeling is prohibitive and could create a tremendous burden on companies or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Xinnan Du , William Zhang , Jose M. Alvarez

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards has recently advanced the capabilities of Large Language Models in complex reasoning tasks by providing explicit rule-based supervision. Among RLVR methods, GRPO and its variants have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zepeng Zhai , Meilin Chen , Jiaxuan Zhao , Junlang Qian , Lei Shen , Yuan Lu

Cross-modal data matching refers to retrieval of data from one modality, when given a query from another modality. In general, supervised algorithms achieve better retrieval performance compared to their unsupervised counterpart, as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Devraj Mandal , Pramod Rao , Soma Biswas

Villalobos et al. [2024] predict that publicly available human text will be exhausted within the next decade. Thus, improving models without access to ground-truth labels becomes increasingly important. We propose a label-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yuqing Kong , Mingyu Song , Yizhou Wang , Yifan Wu

Deep Neural Networks trained in a fully supervised fashion are the dominant technology in perception-based autonomous driving systems. While collecting large amounts of unlabeled data is already a major undertaking, only a subset of it can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Elmar Haussmann , Michele Fenzi , Kashyap Chitta , Jan Ivanecky , Hanson Xu , Donna Roy , Akshita Mittel , Nicolas Koumchatzky , Clement Farabet , Jose M. Alvarez

Evaluating the trustworthiness of a model's prediction is essential for differentiating between `right for the right reasons' and `right for the wrong reasons'. Identifying textual spans that determine the target label, known as faithful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Max Glockner , Ivan Habernal , Iryna Gurevych

Semi-supervised learning holds great promise for many real-world applications, due to its ability to leverage both unlabeled and expensive labeled data. However, most semi-supervised learning algorithms still heavily rely on the limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Huiling Qin , Xianyuan Zhan , Yuanxun Li , Yu Zheng