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Poster
Learning from Similarity-Confidence Data
Yuzhou Cao · Lei Feng · Yitian Xu · Bo An · Gang Niu · Masashi Sugiyama

Thu Jul 22 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PDT) @
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Weakly supervised learning has drawn considerable attention recently to reduce the expensive time and labor consumption of labeling massive data. In this paper, we investigate a novel weakly supervised learning problem of learning from similarity-confidence (Sconf) data, where only unlabeled data pairs equipped with confidence that illustrates their degree of similarity (two examples are similar if they belong to the same class) are needed for training a discriminative binary classifier. We propose an unbiased estimator of the classification risk that can be calculated from only Sconf data and show that the estimation error bound achieves the optimal convergence rate. To alleviate potential overfitting when flexible models are used, we further employ a risk correction scheme on the proposed risk estimator. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

Keywords: Semi-supervised learning · Algorithms

Author Information

Yuzhou Cao (China Agricultural University)
Lei Feng (College of Computer Science, Chongqing University)
Yitian Xu (China Agricultural University)
Bo An (Nanyang Technological University)
Gang Niu (RIKEN)
Gang Niu

Gang Niu is currently an indefinite-term research scientist at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Masashi Sugiyama (RIKEN / The University of Tokyo)

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