On the Importance of Calibration in Semi-supervised Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.04783v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:41:44 GMT
• Title: On the Importance of Calibration in Semi-supervised Learning
• Authors: Charlotte Loh, Rumen Dangovski, Shivchander Sudalairaj, Seungwook Han, Ligong Han, Leonid Karlinsky, Marin Soljacic and Akash Srivastava
• Abstract summary: State-of-the-art (SOTA) semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods have been highly successful in leveraging a mix of labeled and unlabeled data. We introduce a family of new SSL models that optimize for calibration and demonstrate their effectiveness across standard vision benchmarks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: State-of-the-art (SOTA) semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods have been highly successful in leveraging a mix of labeled and unlabeled data by combining techniques of consistency regularization and pseudo-labeling. During pseudo-labeling, the model's predictions on unlabeled data are used for training and thus, model calibration is important in mitigating confirmation bias. Yet, many SOTA methods are optimized for model performance, with little focus directed to improve model calibration. In this work, we empirically demonstrate that model calibration is strongly correlated with model performance and propose to improve calibration via approximate Bayesian techniques. We introduce a family of new SSL models that optimizes for calibration and demonstrate their effectiveness across standard vision benchmarks of CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and ImageNet, giving up to 15.9% improvement in test accuracy. Furthermore, we also demonstrate their effectiveness in additional realistic and challenging problems, such as class-imbalanced datasets and in photonics science.

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