Towards Self-Adaptive Pseudo-Label Filtering for Semi-Supervised Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09774v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:57:16 GMT
• Title: Towards Self-Adaptive Pseudo-Label Filtering for Semi-Supervised Learning
• Authors: Lei Zhu, Zhanghan Ke, Rynson Lau
• Abstract summary: We propose a Self-Adaptive Pseudo-Label Filter (SPF) to improve the quality of pseudo labels. With an online mixture model, we weight each pseudo-labeled sample by the posterior of it being correct, which takes into consideration the confidence distribution. Our SPF evolves together with the deep neural network without manual tuning.
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• Abstract: Recent semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods typically include a filtering strategy to improve the quality of pseudo labels. However, these filtering strategies are usually hand-crafted and do not change as the model is updated, resulting in a lot of correct pseudo labels being discarded and incorrect pseudo labels being selected during the training process. In this work, we observe that the distribution gap between the confidence values of correct and incorrect pseudo labels emerges at the very beginning of the training, which can be utilized to filter pseudo labels. Based on this observation, we propose a Self-Adaptive Pseudo-Label Filter (SPF), which automatically filters noise in pseudo labels in accordance with model evolvement by modeling the confidence distribution throughout the training process. Specifically, with an online mixture model, we weight each pseudo-labeled sample by the posterior of it being correct, which takes into consideration the confidence distribution at that time. Unlike previous handcrafted filters, our SPF evolves together with the deep neural network without manual tuning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that incorporating SPF into the existing SSL methods can help improve the performance of SSL, especially when the labeled data is extremely scarce.

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