Repetitive Reprediction Deep Decipher for Semi-Supervised Learning

Authors

  • Guo-Hua Wang Nanjing University
  • Jianxin Wu Nanjing University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i04.6082

Abstract

Most recent semi-supervised deep learning (deep SSL) methods used a similar paradigm: use network predictions to update pseudo-labels and use pseudo-labels to update network parameters iteratively. However, they lack theoretical support and cannot explain why predictions are good candidates for pseudo-labels. In this paper, we propose a principled end-to-end framework named deep decipher (D2) for SSL. Within the D2 framework, we prove that pseudo-labels are related to network predictions by an exponential link function, which gives a theoretical support for using predictions as pseudo-labels. Furthermore, we demonstrate that updating pseudo-labels by network predictions will make them uncertain. To mitigate this problem, we propose a training strategy called repetitive reprediction (R2). Finally, the proposed R2-D2 method is tested on the large-scale ImageNet dataset and outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 5 percentage points.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Wang, G.-H., & Wu, J. (2020). Repetitive Reprediction Deep Decipher for Semi-Supervised Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(04), 6170-6177. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i04.6082

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AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning