Reinforcement Learning-Guided Semi-Supervised Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01760v1
• Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 21:52:24 GMT
• Title: Reinforcement Learning-Guided Semi-Supervised Learning
• Authors: Marzi Heidari, Hanping Zhang, Yuhong Guo,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel Reinforcement Learning Guided SSL method, RLGSSL, that formulates SSL as a one-armed bandit problem. RLGSSL incorporates a carefully designed reward function that balances the use of labeled and unlabeled data to enhance generalization performance. We demonstrate the effectiveness of RLGSSL through extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets and show that our approach achieves consistent superior performance compared to state-of-the-art SSL methods.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In recent years, semi-supervised learning (SSL) has gained significant attention due to its ability to leverage both labeled and unlabeled data to improve model performance, especially when labeled data is scarce. However, most current SSL methods rely on heuristics or predefined rules for generating pseudo-labels and leveraging unlabeled data. They are limited to exploiting loss functions and regularization methods within the standard norm. In this paper, we propose a novel Reinforcement Learning (RL) Guided SSL method, RLGSSL, that formulates SSL as a one-armed bandit problem and deploys an innovative RL loss based on weighted reward to adaptively guide the learning process of the prediction model. RLGSSL incorporates a carefully designed reward function that balances the use of labeled and unlabeled data to enhance generalization performance. A semi-supervised teacher-student framework is further deployed to increase the learning stability. We demonstrate the effectiveness of RLGSSL through extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets and show that our approach achieves consistent superior performance compared to state-of-the-art SSL methods.

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