CAST: Cluster-Aware Self-Training for Tabular Data via Reliable Confidence
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| author | Kim, Minwook Kim, Juseong Kim, Ki Beom Song, Giltae |
| author_facet | Kim, Minwook Kim, Juseong Kim, Ki Beom Song, Giltae |
| contents | Tabular data is one of the most widely used data modalities, encompassing numerous datasets with substantial amounts of unlabeled data. Despite this prevalence, there is a notable lack of simple and versatile methods for utilizing unlabeled data in the tabular domain, where both gradient-boosting decision trees and neural networks are employed. In this context, self-training has gained attraction due to its simplicity and versatility, yet it is vulnerable to noisy pseudo-labels caused by erroneous confidence. Several solutions have been proposed to handle this problem, but they often compromise the inherent advantages of self-training, resulting in limited applicability in the tabular domain. To address this issue, we explore a novel direction of reliable confidence in self-training contexts and conclude that self-training can be improved by making that the confidence, which represents the value of the pseudo-label, aligns with the cluster assumption. In this regard, we propose Cluster-Aware Self-Training (CAST) for tabular data, which enhances existing self-training algorithms at a negligible cost while maintaining simplicity and versatility. Concretely, CAST calibrates confidence by regularizing the classifier's confidence based on local density for each class in the labeled training data, resulting in lower confidence for pseudo-labels in low-density regions. Extensive empirical evaluations on up to 21 real-world datasets confirm not only the superior performance of CAST but also its robustness in various setups in self-training contexts. |
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| spellingShingle | CAST: Cluster-Aware Self-Training for Tabular Data via Reliable Confidence Kim, Minwook Kim, Juseong Kim, Ki Beom Song, Giltae Machine Learning Tabular data is one of the most widely used data modalities, encompassing numerous datasets with substantial amounts of unlabeled data. Despite this prevalence, there is a notable lack of simple and versatile methods for utilizing unlabeled data in the tabular domain, where both gradient-boosting decision trees and neural networks are employed. In this context, self-training has gained attraction due to its simplicity and versatility, yet it is vulnerable to noisy pseudo-labels caused by erroneous confidence. Several solutions have been proposed to handle this problem, but they often compromise the inherent advantages of self-training, resulting in limited applicability in the tabular domain. To address this issue, we explore a novel direction of reliable confidence in self-training contexts and conclude that self-training can be improved by making that the confidence, which represents the value of the pseudo-label, aligns with the cluster assumption. In this regard, we propose Cluster-Aware Self-Training (CAST) for tabular data, which enhances existing self-training algorithms at a negligible cost while maintaining simplicity and versatility. Concretely, CAST calibrates confidence by regularizing the classifier's confidence based on local density for each class in the labeled training data, resulting in lower confidence for pseudo-labels in low-density regions. Extensive empirical evaluations on up to 21 real-world datasets confirm not only the superior performance of CAST but also its robustness in various setups in self-training contexts. |
| title | CAST: Cluster-Aware Self-Training for Tabular Data via Reliable Confidence |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06380 |