Machine Learning from Weak Supervision: An Empirical Risk Minimization Approach
Aug 2022 · MIT Press
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Fundamental theory and practical algorithms of weakly supervised classification, emphasizing an approach based on empirical risk minimization.
Standard machine learning techniques require large amounts of labeled data to work well. When we apply machine learning to problems in the physical world, however, it is extremely difficult to collect such quantities of labeled data. In this book Masashi Sugiyama, Han Bao, Takashi Ishida, Nan Lu, Tomoya Sakai and Gang Niu present theory and algorithms for weakly supervised learning, a paradigm of machine learning from weakly labeled data. Emphasizing an approach based on empirical risk minimization and drawing on state-of-the-art research in weakly supervised learning, the book provides both the fundamentals of the field and the advanced mathematical theories underlying them. It can be used as a reference for practitioners and researchers and in the classroom.
The book first mathematically formulates classification problems, defines common notations, and reviews various algorithms for supervised binary and multiclass classification. It then explores problems of binary weakly supervised classification, including positive-unlabeled (PU) classification, positive-negative-unlabeled (PNU) classification, and unlabeled-unlabeled (UU) classification. It then turns to multiclass classification, discussing complementary-label (CL) classification and partial-label (PL) classification. Finally, the book addresses more advanced issues, including a family of correction methods to improve the generalization performance of weakly supervised learning and the problem of class-prior estimation.
Standard machine learning techniques require large amounts of labeled data to work well. When we apply machine learning to problems in the physical world, however, it is extremely difficult to collect such quantities of labeled data. In this book Masashi Sugiyama, Han Bao, Takashi Ishida, Nan Lu, Tomoya Sakai and Gang Niu present theory and algorithms for weakly supervised learning, a paradigm of machine learning from weakly labeled data. Emphasizing an approach based on empirical risk minimization and drawing on state-of-the-art research in weakly supervised learning, the book provides both the fundamentals of the field and the advanced mathematical theories underlying them. It can be used as a reference for practitioners and researchers and in the classroom.
The book first mathematically formulates classification problems, defines common notations, and reviews various algorithms for supervised binary and multiclass classification. It then explores problems of binary weakly supervised classification, including positive-unlabeled (PU) classification, positive-negative-unlabeled (PNU) classification, and unlabeled-unlabeled (UU) classification. It then turns to multiclass classification, discussing complementary-label (CL) classification and partial-label (PL) classification. Finally, the book addresses more advanced issues, including a family of correction methods to improve the generalization performance of weakly supervised learning and the problem of class-prior estimation.
Fundamental theory and practical algorithms of weakly supervised classification, emphasizing an approach based on empirical risk minimization.
Standard machine learning techniques require large amounts of labeled data to work well. When we apply machine learning to problems in the physical world...
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Masashi Sugiyama is Director of the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tokyo. Han Bao is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tokyo and Research Assistant at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project. Takashi Ishida is a Lecturer at the University of Tokyo and Visiting Scientist at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project. Nan Lu is a PhD student in the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering at the University of Tokyo and Research Assistant at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project. Tomoya Sakai is Senior Researcher at NEC Corporation and Visiting Scientist at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project. Gang Niu is Research Scientist in the Imperfect Information Learning Team at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project.
Masashi Sugiyama is Director of the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tokyo. Han Bao is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tokyo and Research Assistant at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intell...
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