Empirical Inference Technical Report 2004

Semi-Supervised Induction

Considerable progress was recently achieved on semi-supervised learning, which differs from the traditional supervised learning by additionally exploring the information of the unlabelled examples. However, a disadvantage of many existing methods is that it does not generalize to unseen inputs. This paper investigates learning methods that effectively make use of both labelled and unlabelled data to build predictive functions, which are defined on not just the seen inputs but the whole space. As a nice property, the proposed method allows effcient training and can easily handle new test points. We validate the method based on both toy data and real world data sets.

Author(s): Yu, K. and Tresp, V. and Zhou, D.
Number (issue): 141
Year: 2004
Month: August
Day: 0
Bibtex Type: Technical Report (techreport)
Digital: 0
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive
Institution: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik
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@techreport{2782,
  title = {Semi-Supervised Induction},
  abstract = {Considerable progress was recently achieved on semi-supervised
  learning, which differs from the traditional supervised learning by
  additionally exploring the information of the unlabelled examples.
  However, a disadvantage of many existing methods is that it does
  not generalize to unseen inputs. This paper investigates learning
  methods that effectively make use of both labelled and unlabelled
  data to build predictive functions, which are defined on not just
  the seen inputs but the whole space. As a nice property, the proposed
  method allows effcient training and can easily handle new
  test points. We validate the method based on both toy data and
  real world data sets.},
  number = {141},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  institution = {Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  month = aug,
  year = {2004},
  slug = {2782},
  author = {Yu, K. and Tresp, V. and Zhou, D.},
  month_numeric = {8}
}