Semi-Supervised Learning: Background, Applications and Future Directions

$210.00

Guoqiang Zhong, PhD (Editor)
Kaizhu Huang, PhD (Editor)

Series: Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
BISAC: COM014000

Semi-supervised learning is an important area of machine learning. It deals with problems that involve a lot of unlabeled data and very scarce labeled data. The book focuses on state-of-the-art research on semi-supervised learning.

In the first chapter, Weng, Dornaika and Jin introduce a graph construction algorithm named the constrained data self-representative graph construction (CSRGC). In the second chapter, to reduce the graph construction complexity, Zhang et al. use anchors that were a special subset chosen from the original data to construct the full graph, while randomness was injected into graphs to improve the classification accuracy and deal with the high dimensionality issue.

In the third chapter, Dornaika et al. introduce a kernel version of the Flexible Manifold Embedding (KFME) algorithm. In the fourth chapter, Zhang et al. present an efficient and robust graph-based transductive classification method known as the minimum tree cut (MTC), for large scale applications. In the fifth chapter, Salazar, Safont and Vergara investigated the performance of semi-supervised learning methods in two-class classification problems with a scarce population of one of the classes.

In the sixth chapter, by breaking the sample identically and independently distributed (i.i.d.) assumption, one novel framework called the field support vector machine (F-SVM) with both classification (F-SVC) and regression (F-SVR) purposes is introduced. In the seventh chapter, Gong employs the curriculum learning methodology by investigating the difficulty of classifying every unlabeled example. As a result, an optimized classification sequence was generated during the iterative propagations, and the unlabeled examples are logically classified from simple to difficult. In the eighth chapter, Tang combines semi-supervised learning with geo-tagged photo streams and concept detection to explore situation recognition.

This book is suitable for university students (undergraduate or graduate) in computer science, statistics, electrical engineering, and anyone else who would potentially use machine learning algorithms; professors, who research artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining and related fields; and engineers, who apply machine learning models into their products.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Constrained Data Self-Representative Graph Construction (pp. 1-20)
(L. Weng, F. Dornaika and Z. Jin)

Chapter 2. Injecting Randomness into Graphs: An Ensemble Semi-Supervised Learning Framework (pp. 21-44)
(Qin Zhang, Jianyuan Sun, Guoqiang Zhong, Junyu Dong, Feng Gao, Huizhen Yang and Hina Saeeda)

Chapter 3. Label Propagation via Kernel Flexible Manifold Embedding (pp. 45-66)
(F. Dornaika, Y. El Traboulsi, I. Arganda-Carreras)

Chapter 4. Fast Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning and Its Applications (pp. 67-98)
(Yan-Ming Zhang, Kaizhu Huang, Kaizhu Huang, Guang-Gang Geng and Cheng-Lin Liu)

Chapter 5. Semi-Supervised Learning in Two-Class Classification with a Scarce Population Class (pp. 99-122)
(Addisson Salazar, Gonzalo Safont and Luis Vergara)

Chapter 6. Self-Training Field Pattern Prediction based on Kernel Methods (pp. 123-170)
(Haochuan Jiang, Kaizhu Huang, Xu-yao Zhang and Rui Zhang)

Chapter 7. Semi-Supervised Learning via Multi-Modal Curriculum Generation (pp. 171-206)
(Chen Gong)

Chapter 8. Semi-Supervised Learning on Big Multimedia Data for Situation Recognition (pp. 207-222)
(Mengfan Tang)

About the Editors (pp. 223-224)

Index (pp. 225)


Additional Information

Keywords: Semi-supervised learning; Graph construction; Transductive learning; curriculum learning; manifold learning

This book is suitable for University students (undergraduate or graduate) in computer science, statistics, electrical engineering, or any one else who learns or is potential to use machine learning algorithms; It could be of special interest to professors, who research on artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, and related fields, or engineers, who apply machine learning models into their products.

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