Generalized Semi-Supervised Learning via Self-Supervised Feature Adaptation

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Autori principali: Liang, Jiachen, Hou, Ruibing, Chang, Hong, Ma, Bingpeng, Shan, Shiguang, Chen, Xilin
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Liang, Jiachen
Hou, Ruibing
Chang, Hong
Ma, Bingpeng
Shan, Shiguang
Chen, Xilin
author_facet Liang, Jiachen
Hou, Ruibing
Chang, Hong
Ma, Bingpeng
Shan, Shiguang
Chen, Xilin
contents Traditional semi-supervised learning (SSL) assumes that the feature distributions of labeled and unlabeled data are consistent which rarely holds in realistic scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel SSL setting, where unlabeled samples are drawn from a mixed distribution that deviates from the feature distribution of labeled samples. Under this setting, previous SSL methods tend to predict wrong pseudo-labels with the model fitted on labeled data, resulting in noise accumulation. To tackle this issue, we propose Self-Supervised Feature Adaptation (SSFA), a generic framework for improving SSL performance when labeled and unlabeled data come from different distributions. SSFA decouples the prediction of pseudo-labels from the current model to improve the quality of pseudo-labels. Particularly, SSFA incorporates a self-supervised task into the SSL framework and uses it to adapt the feature extractor of the model to the unlabeled data. In this way, the extracted features better fit the distribution of unlabeled data, thereby generating high-quality pseudo-labels. Extensive experiments show that our proposed SSFA is applicable to various pseudo-label-based SSL learners and significantly improves performance in labeled, unlabeled, and even unseen distributions.
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spellingShingle Generalized Semi-Supervised Learning via Self-Supervised Feature Adaptation
Liang, Jiachen
Hou, Ruibing
Chang, Hong
Ma, Bingpeng
Shan, Shiguang
Chen, Xilin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Traditional semi-supervised learning (SSL) assumes that the feature distributions of labeled and unlabeled data are consistent which rarely holds in realistic scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel SSL setting, where unlabeled samples are drawn from a mixed distribution that deviates from the feature distribution of labeled samples. Under this setting, previous SSL methods tend to predict wrong pseudo-labels with the model fitted on labeled data, resulting in noise accumulation. To tackle this issue, we propose Self-Supervised Feature Adaptation (SSFA), a generic framework for improving SSL performance when labeled and unlabeled data come from different distributions. SSFA decouples the prediction of pseudo-labels from the current model to improve the quality of pseudo-labels. Particularly, SSFA incorporates a self-supervised task into the SSL framework and uses it to adapt the feature extractor of the model to the unlabeled data. In this way, the extracted features better fit the distribution of unlabeled data, thereby generating high-quality pseudo-labels. Extensive experiments show that our proposed SSFA is applicable to various pseudo-label-based SSL learners and significantly improves performance in labeled, unlabeled, and even unseen distributions.
title Generalized Semi-Supervised Learning via Self-Supervised Feature Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20596