arXiv AI
Aug 24

C-Score: Beyond Accuracy for Robustness Assessment in Semi-Supervised Learning under Open-World Unlabeled Contamination

The paper introduces C-Score, a diagnostic framework for evaluating pseudo‑label‑based semi‑supervised learning (SSL) when unlabeled data may contain out‑of‑distribution (OOD) samples. C-Score assesses training behavior across prediction, feature representation, and optimization, using metrics such as PLE, CCI, Sem‑Drift, and Grad‑Align. Experiments on CIFAR‑10 and CIFAR‑100 with various OOD sources show that C‑Score detects hidden degradation that clean accuracy alone fails to reveal, highlighting the need for internal diagnostic signals in SSL robustness assessment.

By Tsao-Lun Chen, Chi-Cheng Fu, Han-Yi E. Chou, Shun-Feng Su
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

One Pipeline, Many Transformers: Pattern-Specific Imputation Specialists for Tabular Missing Data

The paper introduces a pre‑training pipeline that creates transformer‑based imputation specialists for tabular data with specific missingness patterns. By featurizing entries, generating synthetic data with configurable missingness modules, and fitting on millions of synthetic tables, the pipeline produces pattern‑specific models that outperform dedicated methods for each missingness pattern. A default model trained only on MCAR data, TabImpute, remains robust across all tested patterns, and the authors release the pipeline, models, and a new benchmark of 42 datasets and 11 missingness patterns.

By Jacob Feitelberg, Dwaipayan Saha, Kyuseong Choi, Zaid Ahmad, Anish Agarwal, Raaz Dwivedi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

LeNEPA: No-Augmentation Next-Latent Prediction for Time-Series Representation Learning

arXiv:2607. 00958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series are central to modern data mining applications, from industrial telemetry and server metrics to finance and physiology, yet time-series self-supervised learning often depends on view and augmentation choices that encode domain-specific invariances.

By Alexander Chemeris, Ming Jin, Randall Balestriero