2024/05/24 by Stefan Dietrich, Dietrich, Stefan, Julian Rodemann +3 · 2 citations
Computer Science · #62C12 62C10 #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Face and Expression Recognition #G.3 #I.2.6 #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Methodology (stat.ME) #Statistics Theory (math.ST)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.15294
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We provide a theoretical and computational investigation of the Gamma-Maximin method with soft revision, which was recently proposed as a robust criterion for pseudo-label selection (PLS) in semi-supervised learning. Opposed to traditional methods for PLS we use credal sets of priors ("generalized Bayes") to represent the epistemic modeling uncertainty. These latter are then updated by the Gamma-Maximin method with soft revision. We eventually select pseudo-labeled data that are most likely in light of the least favorable distribution from the so updated credal set. We formalize the task of finding optimal pseudo-labeled data w.r.t. the Gamma-Maximin method with soft revision as an optimization problem. A concrete implementation for the class of logistic models then allows us to compare the predictive power of the method with competing approaches. It is observed that the Gamma-Maximin method with soft revision can achieve very promising results, especially when the proportion of labeled data is low.