基于小样本学习的垃圾邮件过滤方法

针对客户端垃圾邮件过滤器难以获取足够训练样本的问题,提出一种基于小样本学习的垃圾邮件过滤方法,利用容易获取的未标记样本提高垃圾邮件过滤的性能。该方法使用已标记的小样本邮件实例集训练一个初始Na?ve Bayes分类器,以此标注未标记邮件,再使用所有数据训练新的分类器,利用EM算法进行迭代直至收敛。实验结果证明,当给定5个~20个已标记小样本训练邮件时,该方法可有效提高垃圾邮件过滤性能。     

一种基于Tri-training的数据流集成分类算法

数据流分类是数据挖掘领域的重要研究任务之一,已有的数据流分类算法大多是在有标记数据集上进行训练,而实际应用领域数据流中有标记的数据数量极少。为解决这一问题,可通过人工标注的方式获取标记数据,但人工标注昂贵且耗时。考虑到未标记数据的数量极大且隐含大量信息,因此在保证精度的前提下,为利用这些未标记数据的信息,本文提出了一种基于Tri-training的数据流集成分类算法。该算法采用滑动窗口机制将数据流分块,在前k块含有未标记数据和标记数据的数据集上使用Tri-training训练基分类器,通过迭代的加权投票方式不断更新分类器直到所有未标记数据都被打上标记,并利用k个Tri-training集成模型对第ｋ＋１块数据进行预测,丢弃分类错误率高的分类器并在当前数据块上重建新分类器从而更新当前模型。在10个UCI数据集上的实验结果表明：与经典算法相比,本文提出的算法在含80%未标记数据的数据流上的分类精度有显著提高。     

Semi-supervised learning integrated with classifier combination for word sense disambiguation

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the problem of determining the right sense of a polysemous word in a certain context. This paper investigates the use of unlabeled data for WSD within a framework of semi-supervised learning, in which labeled data is iteratively extended from unlabeled data. Focusing on this approach, we first explicitly identify and analyze three problems inherently occurred piecemeal in the general bootstrapping algorithm; namely the imbalance of training data, the confidence of new labeled examples, and the final classifier generation; all of which will be considered integratedly within a common framework of bootstrapping. We then propose solutions for these problems with the help of classifier combination strategies. This results in several new variants of the general bootstrapping algorithm. Experiments conducted on the English lexical samples of Senseval-2 and Senseval-3 show that the proposed solutions are effective in comparison with previous studies, and significantly improve supervised WSD.     

Semisupervised learning from dissimilarity data

The following two-stage approach to learning from dissimilarity data is described: (1) embed both labeled and unlabeled objects in a Euclidean space; then (2) train a classifier on the labeled objects. The use of linear discriminant analysis for (2), which naturally invites the use of classical multidimensional scaling for (1), is emphasized. The choice of the dimension of the Euclidean space in (1) is a model selection problem; too few or too many dimensions can degrade classifier performance. The question of how the inclusion of unlabeled objects in (1) affects classifier performance is investigated. In the case of spherical covariances, including unlabeled objects in (1) is demonstrably superior. Several examples are presented.     

基于图约束和预聚类的主动学习算法在威胁情景感知中的研究*

针对现有的威胁感知算法对样本标注代价较大且在训练分类器时只使用已标注的威胁样本,提出了一种基于图约束和预聚类的主动学习算法,该算法旨在通过降低标注威胁样本的代价和充分利用未标注的威胁样本对训练分类器的辅助作用,训练出更好的分类器,实现有效地感知威胁情景。该算法首先用已标注的威胁样本集合训练分类器,接着从未标注的威胁样本集中挑选出最有价值的威胁样本,并对其进行标注,再将标注后的威胁样本加入已标注的样本集中并从原来未标注的样本集中删去此样本,最后用新的已标注的威胁样本集重新训练分类器,直到满足循环条件终止。仿真实验表明,基于图约束与预聚类的主动学习算法在达到目标准确率的同时降低了标注代价且能够有效地感知威胁情景,具有一定的研究意义。     

Text Classification from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents using EM

This paper shows that the accuracy of learned text classifiers can be improved by augmenting a small number of labeled training documents with a large pool of unlabeled documents. This is important because in many text classification problems obtaining training labels is expensive, while large quantities of unlabeled documents are readily available.We introduce an algorithm for learning from labeled and unlabeled documents based on the combination of Expectation-Maximization (EM) and a naive Bayes classifier. The algorithm first trains a classifier using the available labeled documents, and probabilistically labels the unlabeled documents. It then trains a new classifier using the labels for all the documents, and iterates to convergence. This basic EM procedure works well when the data conform to the generative assumptions of the model. However these assumptions are often violated in practice, and poor performance can result. We present two extensions to the algorithm that improve classification accuracy under these conditions: (1) a weighting factor to modulate the contribution of the unlabeled data, and (2) the use of multiple mixture components per class. Experimental results, obtained using text from three different real-world tasks, show that the use of unlabeled data reduces classification error by up to 30%.     

基于数据密度的半监督自训练分类算法

在实际的分类任务中,无标记样本数量充足而有标记样本数量稀少的情况经常出现,目前处理这种情况的常用方法是半监督自训练分类算法。提出了一种基于数据密度的半监督自训练分类算法,该算法首先依据数据的密度对数据集进行划分,从而确定数据的空间结构;然后再按照数据的空间结构对分类器进行自训练的迭代,最终得到一个新的分类器。在UCI中6个数据集上的实验结果表明,与三种监督学习算法以及其分别对应的自训练版本相比,提出的算法分类效果更好。     

主动协同半监督粗糙集分类模型

粗糙集理论是一种有监督学习模型,一般需要适量有标记的数据来训练分类器。但现实一些问题往往存在大量无标记的数据,而有标记数据由于标记代价过大较为稀少。文中结合主动学习和协同训练理论,提出一种可有效利用无标记数据提升分类性能的半监督粗糙集模型。该模型利用半监督属性约简算法提取两个差异性较大的约简构造基分类器,然后基于主动学习思想在无标记数据中选择两分类器分歧较大的样本进行人工标注,并将更新后的分类器交互协同学习。UCI数据集实验对比分析表明,该模型能明显提高分类学习性能,甚至能达到数据集的最优值。     

一种基于Tri-training的半监督多标记学习文档分类算法

多标记学习主要用于解决因单个样本对应多个概念标记而带来的歧义性问题,而半监督多标记学习是近年来多标记学习任务中的一个新的研究方向,它试图综合利用少量的已标记样本和大量的未标记样本来提高学习性能。为了进一步挖掘未标记样本的信息和价值并将其应用于文档多标记分类问题,该文提出了一种基于Tri-training的半监督多标记学习算法(MKSMLT),该算法首先利用k近邻算法扩充已标记样本集,结合Tri-training算法训练分类器,将多标记学习问题转化为标记排序问题。实验表明,该算法能够有效提高文档分类性能。     

基于半监督学习的数据流集成分类算法

已有的数据流分类算法多采用有监督学习,需要使用大量已标记数据训练分类器,而获取已标记数据的成本很高,算法缺乏实用性。针对此问题,文中提出基于半监督学习的集成分类算法SEClass,能利用少量已标记数据和大量未标记数据,训练和更新集成分类器,并使用多数投票方式对测试数据进行分类。实验结果表明,使用同样数量的已标记训练数据,SEClass算法与最新的有监督集成分类算法相比,其准确率平均高5。33%。且运算时间随属性维度和类标签数量的增加呈线性增长,能够适用于高维、高速数据流分类问题。     

A new method for positive and unlabeled learning with privileged information

Positive and unlabeled learning (PU learning) has been studied to address the situation in which only positive and unlabeled examples are available. Most of the previous work has been devoted to identifying negative examples from the unlabeled data, so that the supervised learning approaches can be applied to build a classifier. However, for the remaining unlabeled data, they either exclude them from the learning phase or force them to belong to a class, and this always limits the performance of PU learning. In addition, previous PU methods assume the training data and the testing data have the same features representations. However, we can always collect the features that the training data have while the test data do not have, these kinds of features are called privileged information. In this paper, we propose a new method, which is based on similarity approach for the problem of positive and unlabeled learning with privileged information (SPUPIL), which consists of two steps. The proposed SPUPIL method first conducts KNN method to generate the similarity weights and then the similarity weights and privileged information are incorporated to the learning model based on Ranking SVM to build a more accurate classifier. We also use the Lagrangian method to transform the original model into its dual problem, and solve it to obtain the classifier. Extensive experiments on the real data sets show that the performance of the SPUPIL is better than the state-of-the-art PU learning methods.

     

Optimizing area under the ROC curve using semi-supervised learning

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis is a standard methodology to evaluate the performance of a binary classification system. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) is a performance metric that summarizes how well a classifier separates two classes. Traditional AUC optimization techniques are supervised learning methods that utilize only labeled data (i.e., the true class is known for all data) to train the classifiers. In this work, inspired by semi-supervised and transductive learning, we propose two new AUC optimization algorithms hereby referred to as semi-supervised learning receiver operating characteristic (SSLROC) algorithms, which utilize unlabeled test samples in classifier training to maximize AUC. Unlabeled samples are incorporated into the AUC optimization process, and their ranking relationships to labeled positive and negative training samples are considered as optimization constraints. The introduced test samples will cause the learned decision boundary in a multi-dimensional feature space to adapt not only to the distribution of labeled training data, but also to the distribution of unlabeled test data. We formulate the semi-supervised AUC optimization problem as a semi-definite programming problem based on the margin maximization theory. The proposed methods SSLROC1 (1-norm) and SSLROC2 (2-norm) were evaluated using 34 (determined by power analysis) randomly selected datasets from the University of California, Irvine machine learning repository. Wilcoxon signed rank tests showed that the proposed methods achieved significant improvement compared with state-of-the-art methods. The proposed methods were also applied to a CT colonography dataset for colonic polyp classification and showed promising results.¹     

关系tri-training:利用无标记数据学习一阶规则

针对目前归纳逻辑程序设计(inductive logic programming,ILP)系统要求训练数据充分且无法利用无标记数据的不足,提出了一种利用无标记数据学习一阶规则的算法——关系tri-training(relational-tri-training,R-tri-training)算法。该算法将基于命题逻辑表示的半监督学习算法tri-training的思想引入到基于一阶逻辑表示的ILP系统,在ILP框架下研究如何利用无标记样例信息辅助分类器训练。R-tri-training算法首先根据标记数据和背景知识初始化三个不同的ILP系统,然后迭代地用无标记样例对三个分类器进行精化,即如果两个分类器对一个无标记样例的标记结果一致,则在一定条件下该样例将被标记给另一个分类器作为新的训练样例。标准数据集上实验结果表明:R-tri-training能有效地利用无标记数据提高学习性能,且R-tri-training算法性能优于GILP(genetic inductive logic programming)、NFOIL、KFOIL和ALEPH。     

融合迁移学习的TranCo-Training分类模型

半监督学习中当未标注样本与标注样本分布不同时,将导致分类器偏离目标数据的主题,降低分类器的正确性.文中采用迁移学习技术,提出一种TranCo-Training分类模型.每次迭代,根据每个未标注样本与其近邻标注样本的分类一致性计算其迁移能力,并根据迁移能力从辅助数据集向目标数据集迁移实例.理论分析表明,辅助样本的迁移能力与其训练错误损失成反比,该方法能将训练错误损失最小化,避免负迁移,从而解决半监督学习中的主题偏离问题.实验表明,TranCo-Training优于随机选择未标注样本的RdCo-Training算法,尤其是给定少量的标注目标样本和大量的辅助未标注样本时.     

Genetic Algorithm Classifier System for Semi‐Supervised Learning

Real‐world datasets often contain large numbers of unlabeled data points, because there is additional cost for obtaining the labels. Semi‐supervised learning (SSL) algorithms use both labeled and unlabeled data points for training that can result in higher classification accuracy on these datasets. Generally, traditional SSLs tentatively label the unlabeled data points on the basis of the smoothness assumption that neighboring points should have the same label. When this assumption is violated, unlabeled points are mislabeled injecting noise into the final classifier. An alternative SSL approach is cluster‐then‐label (CTL), which partitions all the data points (labeled and unlabeled) into clusters and creates a classifier by using those clusters. CTL is based on the less restrictive cluster assumption that data points in the same cluster should have the same label. As shown, this allows CTLs to achieve higher classification accuracy on many datasets where the cluster assumption holds for the CTLs, but smoothness does not hold for the traditional SSLs. However, cluster configuration problems (e.g., irrelevant features, insufficient clusters, and incorrectly shaped clusters) could violate the cluster assumption. We propose a new framework for CTLs by using a genetic algorithm (GA) to evolve classifiers without the cluster configuration problems (e.g., the GA removes irrelevant attributes, updates number of clusters, and changes the shape of the clusters). We demonstrate that a CTL based on this framework achieves comparable or higher accuracy with both traditional SSLs and CTLs on 12 University of California, Irvine machine learning datasets.     

Evolutionary semi-supervised fuzzy clustering

For learning classifier from labeled and unlabeled data, this paper proposes an evolutionary semi-supervised fuzzy clustering algorithm. Class labels information provided by labeled data is used to guide the evolution process of each fuzzy partition on unlabeled data, which plays the role of chromosome. The fitness of each chromosome is evaluated with a combination of fuzzy within cluster variance of unlabeled data and misclassification error of labeled data. The structure of the clusters obtained can be used to classify a future new pattern. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated using two benchmark data sets. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach can improve classification accuracy significantly, compared to classifier trained with a small number of labeled data only. Also, it outperforms a similar approach SSFCM.     

Learning with partly labeled data

Learning with partly labeled data aims at combining labeled and unlabeled data in order to boost the accuracy of a classifier. This paper outlines the two main classes of learning methods to deal with partly labeled data: pre-labeling-based learning and semi-supervised learning. Concretely, we introduce and discuss three methods from each class. The first three ones are two-stage methods consisting of selecting the data to be labeled and then training the classifier using the pre-labeled and the originally labeled data. The last three ones show how labeled and unlabeled data can be combined in a symbiotic way during training. The empirical evaluation of these methods shows: (1) pre-labeling methods tend be better than semi-supervised learning methods, (2) both labeled and unlabeled have positive effect on the classification accuracy of each of the proposed methods, (3) the combination of all the methods improve the accuracy, and (4) the proposed methods compare very well with the state-of-art methods.     

Learning model order from labeled and unlabeled data for partially supervised classification, with application to word sense disambiguation

Previous partially supervised classification methods can partition unlabeled data into positive examples and negative examples for a given class by learning from positive labeled examples and unlabeled examples, but they cannot further group the negative examples into meaningful clusters even if there are many different classes in the negative examples. Here we proposed an automatic method to obtain a natural partitioning of mixed data (labeled data + unlabeled data) by maximizing a stability criterion defined on classification results from an extended label propagation algorithm over all the possible values of model order (or the number of classes) in mixed data. Our experimental results on benchmark corpora for word sense disambiguation task indicate that this model order identification algorithm with the extended label propagation algorithm as the base classifier outperforms SVM, a one-class partially supervised classification algorithm, and the model order identification algorithm with semi-supervised k-means clustering as the base classifier when labeled data is incomplete.     

基于Tri-training的半监督SVM

当前机器学习面临的主要问题之一是如何有效地处理海量数据,而标记训练数据是十分有限且不易获得的。提出了一种新的半监督SVM算法,该算法在对SVM训练中,只要求少量的标记数据,并能利用大量的未标记数据对分类器反复的修正。在实验中发现,Tri-training的应用确实能够提高SVM算法的分类精度,并且通过增大分类器间的差异性能够获得更好的分类效果,所以Tri-training对分类器的要求十分宽松,通过SVM的不同核函数来体现分类器之间的差异性,进一步改善了协同训练的性能。理论分析与实验表明,该算法具有较好的学习效果。     

Cost-sensitive classification with inadequate labeled data

It is an actual and challenging issue to learn cost-sensitive models from those datasets that are with few labeled data and plentiful unlabeled data, because some time labeled data are very difficult, time consuming and/or expensive to obtain. To solve this issue, in this paper we proposed two classification strategies to learn cost-sensitive classifier from training datasets with both labeled and unlabeled data, based on Expectation Maximization (EM). The first method, Direct-EM, uses EM to build a semi-supervised classifier, then directly computes the optimal class label for each test example using the class probability produced by the learning model. The second method, CS-EM, modifies EM by incorporating misclassification cost into the probability estimation process. We conducted extensive experiments to evaluate the efficiency, and results show that when using only a small number of labeled training examples, the CS-EM outperforms the other competing methods on majority of the selected UCI data sets across different cost ratios, especially when cost ratio is high.