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| Oct 8 || Using unlabeled data to learn predictive functional structures || [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.77.9121&rep=rep1&type=pdf A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data] ||
| Oct 8 || Using unlabeled data to learn predictive functional structures || [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.77.9121&rep=rep1&type=pdf A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data] ||
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| Oct 22 || Harnessing unlabeled test data: Application to ranking || [https://ssli.ee.washington.edu/people/duh/papers/sigir.pdf Learning to Rank with Partially-Labeled Data] ||
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| Oct 22 || Semi-supervised Learning for Ranking || [https://ssli.ee.washington.edu/people/duh/papers/sigir.pdf Learning to Rank with Partially-Labeled Data] ||
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| Oct 29 || Semi-supervised Learning Theory || [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61.1975&rep=rep1&type=pdf An Augmented PAC Model for SemiSupervised Learning]||
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| Oct 29 || Semi-supervised Learning Theory || [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ninamf/papers/labeled_unlabeled.pdf A PAC-style Model for Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data]||
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| Nov 5|| Semi-unsupervised Learning (Clustering/Dimensionality Reduction) || [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1.5745&rep=rep1&type=pdf Integrating constraints and metric learning in semi-supervised clustering], [http://www.siam.org/proceedings/datamining/2007/dm07_073Zhang.pdf Semi-Supervised Dimensionality Reduction] ||
| Nov 5|| Semi-unsupervised Learning (Clustering/Dimensionality Reduction) || [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1.5745&rep=rep1&type=pdf Integrating constraints and metric learning in semi-supervised clustering], [http://www.siam.org/proceedings/datamining/2007/dm07_073Zhang.pdf Semi-Supervised Dimensionality Reduction] ||

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Semisupervised and Active Learning

Fri 2:00-3:20pm

MEB 3105

Contents

Synopsis

Supervised learning algorithms usually require a good amount of labeled data in order to learn a reliable model. Since getting large quantities of labeled data can be expensive and/or difficult, much effort in machine learning has been devoted on coming up with ways to learn with a limited amount of labeled data. There are many ways of doing this. Two very important paradigms we will be looking at in this seminar are (1) semi-supervised learning which involves augmenting a small amount of available labeled data with a large amount of additional unlabeled data (which is usually very easy to obtain), and (2) active learning which involves judiciously selecting the most informative/useful labeled examples to be given to a supervised learning algorithm. In this seminar, we will be looking at some representative papers from both these paradigms. As it will not be possible to cover all important papers in a single seminar, for those interested, a bunch of papers will be added under the suggested readings.

Participants

Schedule

(subject to change; * means will probably need a rescheduling)

Date Topic Outline and Paper(s) Presenter
Sep 3 Outline, Motivation Seminar logistics. Brief introduction to semisupervised learning (section 1 - FAQ - of this survey), and active learning (section 1 of this survey) Piyush
Semisupervised Learning
Sep 10 Bootstrapping/weak-supervision Combining Labeled and Unlabeled Data with Co-Training
Sep 17 Low density regions and the cluster assumption for SSL Semi-Supervised Classification by Low Density Separation, (also see section 5 of the SSL survey for other methods and further references)
Sep 24 Imposing function smoothness: Graph based SSL A geometric framework for learning from labeled and unlabeled examples, (also see section 6 of the SSL survey for other methods and further references)
Oct 1 Probabilistic approaches: Expectation Maximization for SSL Semi-Supervised Text Classification Using EM
Oct 8 Using unlabeled data to learn predictive functional structures A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data
Oct 22 Semi-supervised Learning for Ranking Learning to Rank with Partially-Labeled Data
Oct 29 Semi-supervised Learning Theory A PAC-style Model for Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data
Nov 5 Semi-unsupervised Learning (Clustering/Dimensionality Reduction) Integrating constraints and metric learning in semi-supervised clustering, Semi-Supervised Dimensionality Reduction
Active Learning
Nov 12 Pool-based active learning, Query by committee, Query by uncertainty Support Vector Machine Active Learning with Applications to Text Classification, Active Learning survey (sections 3.1 and 3.2)
Nov 19 Stream-based active learning Worst-Case Analysis of Selective Sampling for Linear Classification
*Nov 26 Dealing with sampling bias and using cluster-structure for active learning Hierarchical Sampling for Active Learning
Dec 3 Semi-supervised learning and active learning Combining active learning and semi-supervised learning using Gaussian fields and harmonic functions
Dec 10 Multiview active learning Active Learning with Multiple Views

Suggested Readings

Will be updated with more papers.

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