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:2608.30561v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Informative label missingness can change the usual efficiency ordering between completely and partially labelled classifiers because the pattern of m...
arXiv:2512. 03322v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Partially labelled samples arise when features are observed for all data, but class labels are available for only a subset.
arXiv:2607. 24943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many classification problems, reliable instance-level labels are unavailable.
The paper introduces soft‑label‑based estimators for the Bayes‑optimal balanced error rate (BER) and area under the ROC curve (AUC), extending from a clean setting with known class priors to a realistic scenario with unknown priors and corrupted soft labels. It also adapts the FeeBee evaluation framework to assess these estimators without needing the true optimum, providing practical evaluation scores for any estimator of optimal BER or AUC. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets confirm the effectiveness of both the estimators and the evaluation method.
arXiv:2411. 12030v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, the method of gaps, a technique for deriving closed-form expressions in terms of information measures for the generalization error of supervised learning algorithms, is introduced.
arXiv:2607. 18088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard evaluation of many recognition systems contains distribution shift by construction, since benchmarks place disjoint conditions in the training and test splits.
arXiv:2609.06873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study how a limited labeling budget should be allocated to minimize multiclass zero-one classification risk. We consider parametric classification...
arXiv:2412. 12807v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Selective classification is a powerful tool for automated decision-making in high-risk scenarios, allowing classifiers to act only when confident and abstain when uncertainty is high.
arXiv:2608. 11162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Naive Bayes (NB) classifier remains a standard choice for categorical data, yet its widely used smoothing rules, such as Laplace, Lidstone, Krichevsky-Trofimov, and the $m$-estimate, all prescribe a fixed smoothing strength that ignores feature cardinality, sample size, and class imbalance, inducing a non-vanishing bias on modern high-cardinality tabular data.
arXiv:2606. 15665v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies the information gap between mixture detection and label recovery in binomial logistic mixtures.
arXiv:2607. 11947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Typical semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods rely on distributional assumptions, and their performance degrades when these are violated.