The paper introduces a hub‑spoke latent space design for dual‑mismatched semi‑supervised learning, where known classes are uniformly arranged around a central hub and each class forms a compact cluster around its prototype. The hub serves as an anchor for a low‑evidence region that captures high‑uncertainty unknown class samples, thereby reducing majority‑class domination and improving feature discriminability. Experiments demonstrate that this approach outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods, achieving up to a 3.25% improvement across various settings.
arXiv:2606. 18833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a semi-supervised clustering framework grounded in the statistical duality between grouping principles and anomaly detection.
arXiv:2606. 26973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-set semi-supervised learning aims to leverage unlabeled data that may contain out-of-distribution outliers while maintaining performance on in-distribution classes.
arXiv:2607. 05393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-domain surveys generate many transient candidates, making Real-Bogus classification a critical step in automated discovery pipelines.
arXiv:2505. 03509v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Anomaly detection in large datasets is essential in astronomy and computer vision.
FedCC is a new algorithm for distillation-based federated learning that tackles label distribution skew by allowing clients to mark ambiguous samples as 'unknown' instead of forcing a potentially wrong classification. By adding this extra class and calibrating pseudo-labels on a public dataset, FedCC balances confidence across majority and minority classes. Experiments show that FedCC outperforms existing methods, achieving 67.3% accuracy even when each client has data from only one of ten classes, whereas baselines drop to near-random performance.
SAGE (Subpopulation-Aware Generative Enhancement) is a two-stage generative augmentation framework designed to mitigate spurious correlations in machine learning when group labels are unavailable. It uses cluster-derived sub-labels and class labels to fine‑tune a conditional generative model and text encoder, producing synthetic data that fills underrepresented regions and creates a balanced validation set for last‑layer reweighting. Experiments show SAGE improves worst‑group accuracy to 89.5%, 85.7%, and 79.1% on Waterbirds, CelebA, and MetaShift, outperforming existing group‑label‑free baselines by up to 7.7 percentage points.
JEPAMatch introduces a new semi‑supervised learning framework that replaces traditional output‑thresholding with explicit geometric shaping of latent representations. By combining the FlexMatch loss with a latent‑space regularization inspired by LeJEPA, the method encourages isotropic Gaussian structure in the embedding space, mitigating class imbalance and noisy pseudo‑labels. Experiments on CIFAR‑100, STL‑10, and Tiny‑ImageNet show consistent performance gains and faster convergence compared to existing FixMatch‑based baselines.
arXiv:2608.23960v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Missing labels are usually regarded as a source of information loss in classification. We study a semi-supervised setting in which the probability of...
arXiv:2609.14451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern semi-supervised learning (SSL) couples pseudo-label generation and classifier training, using the classifier's own confidence to select the ps...
arXiv:2608.24812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class-imbalanced node classification on temporal graphs is challenging because majority-dominated temporal propagation progressively assimilates minori...
The paper introduces a framework for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection that addresses the trade‑off between detection performance and classification accuracy caused by fine‑tuning with auxiliary outlier data. It optimizes three factors—model reminder, data sampling, and representation learning—by proposing Self‑Knowledge Distillation to preserve accuracy, Semi‑hard Outlier Sampling to enhance detection with minimal data, and Outlier‑aware Supervised Contrastive Learning to improve ID‑OOD separability. The combined approach yields cumulative gains, outperforming existing methods on diverse benchmarks, especially in long‑tailed scenarios, and offers a robust baseline for real‑world OOD detection.
arXiv:2608.20710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world semi-supervised learning (SSL) often encounters significant challenges with long-tailed label distributions and noisy pseudo-labels, which h...