arXiv Machine Learning

Decoupled Optimization for Teacher-Student Semi-Supervised Learning via a Pioneer Student

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

MTSSL: Meta-Thresholding Semi-Supervised Learning

arXiv:2607. 16363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A large body of Semi-supervised Learning~(SSL) algorithms encounter the threshold $\tau$ to select pseudo-labels.

By Shuyang Liu, Ziang Zeng, Ruiqiu Zheng, Jiazheng Wang, Zechen Liu, Wenxi Li, Zhou Yu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Matching Supervision to the Student's Learning Capacity: A Unified Framework for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608. 08176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) improves the reasoning abilities of LLMs by internalizing privileged context into model parameters through self-distillation.

By Yongkang Yang, Zhezheng Hao, Hong Zhang, Yi Liu, Xiankun Lin, Wence Ji, Fanjunduo Wei, Jiarui Yu, Qiang Lin, Xiaoyun Liang, Hande Dong
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

Scalable Patch-Level Self-Supervised Learning

arXiv:2610.10013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) at scale produces powerful visual representations. However, most scalable SSL methods rely on ad hoc combinations of mul...

By Maximilian Seitzer, Gabriele Trivigno, Anton\'in Vobeck\'y, Seungeun Yi, Maxime Oquab, Huy V. Vo, Oriane Sim\'eoni, Piotr Bojanowski
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

A Practical Recipe for Semi-Supervised Federated ASR: Online Pseudo-Labels with Server Update Stabilization

The paper presents a practical approach to semi‑supervised federated learning for automatic speech recognition (ASR). It demonstrates that using a per‑client online teacher combined with a stabilizing server‑side anchor—where the server continues training on labeled data between rounds—significantly reduces divergence caused by pseudo‑label errors. The authors provide design guidelines that improve in‑domain performance by an average of 20.8 % and cross‑domain performance by 10.0 % over the best prior method, narrowing the gap to fully‑supervised federated learning.

By Wonho Bae, Zakaria Aldeneh, Martin Pelikan, Jan "Honza" Silovsky, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Sheikh Shams Azam
arXiv AI
Sep 24

AdaDim: Dimensionality Adaptation for SSL Representational Dynamics

AdaDim introduces a training strategy for self‑supervised learning that adaptively balances dimensionality increase and mutual information reduction. By gradually regularizing the projection head while encouraging feature decorrelation and sample uniformity, AdaDim achieves up to 3% performance gains over standard SSL baselines without relying on costly techniques such as queues or predictor networks. The method demonstrates that optimal SSL models do not simply maximize dimensionality or minimize mutual information, but find a trade‑off between the two.

By Kiran Kokilepersaud, Mohit Prabhushankar, Ghassan AlRegib
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

FedADB: Class Anchor-Driven Dual-Branch Federated Learning for Mitigating Forgetting

arXiv:2608. 15310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal data collected by heterogeneous devices are used for collaborative training, where federated learning (FL) serves as a key paradigm for effective distributed modeling with data privacy preservation.

By Zhenyan Liu, Hua Zhang, Haoran Gao, Qi Li, Hongliang Zhu, Huiyu Zhou, Zongliang Shen, Yanxin Xu, Jiahui Wang