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Knowledge Base Population using Semantic Label Propagation
A crucial aspect of a knowledge base population system that extracts new
facts from text corpora, is the generation of training data for its relation
extractors. In this paper, we present a method that maximizes the effectiveness
of newly trained relation extractors at a minimal annotation cost. Manual
labeling can be significantly reduced by Distant Supervision, which is a method
to construct training data automatically by aligning a large text corpus with
an existing knowledge base of known facts. For example, all sentences
mentioning both 'Barack Obama' and 'US' may serve as positive training
instances for the relation born_in(subject,object). However, distant
supervision typically results in a highly noisy training set: many training
sentences do not really express the intended relation. We propose to combine
distant supervision with minimal manual supervision in a technique called
feature labeling, to eliminate noise from the large and noisy initial training
set, resulting in a significant increase of precision. We further improve on
this approach by introducing the Semantic Label Propagation method, which uses
the similarity between low-dimensional representations of candidate training
instances, to extend the training set in order to increase recall while
maintaining high precision. Our proposed strategy for generating training data
is studied and evaluated on an established test collection designed for
knowledge base population tasks. The experimental results show that the
Semantic Label Propagation strategy leads to substantial performance gains when
compared to existing approaches, while requiring an almost negligible manual
annotation effort.Comment: Submitted to Knowledge Based Systems, special issue on Knowledge
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Fidelity-Weighted Learning
Training deep neural networks requires many training samples, but in practice
training labels are expensive to obtain and may be of varying quality, as some
may be from trusted expert labelers while others might be from heuristics or
other sources of weak supervision such as crowd-sourcing. This creates a
fundamental quality versus-quantity trade-off in the learning process. Do we
learn from the small amount of high-quality data or the potentially large
amount of weakly-labeled data? We argue that if the learner could somehow know
and take the label-quality into account when learning the data representation,
we could get the best of both worlds. To this end, we propose
"fidelity-weighted learning" (FWL), a semi-supervised student-teacher approach
for training deep neural networks using weakly-labeled data. FWL modulates the
parameter updates to a student network (trained on the task we care about) on a
per-sample basis according to the posterior confidence of its label-quality
estimated by a teacher (who has access to the high-quality labels). Both
student and teacher are learned from the data. We evaluate FWL on two tasks in
information retrieval and natural language processing where we outperform
state-of-the-art alternative semi-supervised methods, indicating that our
approach makes better use of strong and weak labels, and leads to better
task-dependent data representations.Comment: Published as a conference paper at ICLR 201
Zero-Shot Hashing via Transferring Supervised Knowledge
Hashing has shown its efficiency and effectiveness in facilitating
large-scale multimedia applications. Supervised knowledge e.g. semantic labels
or pair-wise relationship) associated to data is capable of significantly
improving the quality of hash codes and hash functions. However, confronted
with the rapid growth of newly-emerging concepts and multimedia data on the
Web, existing supervised hashing approaches may easily suffer from the scarcity
and validity of supervised information due to the expensive cost of manual
labelling. In this paper, we propose a novel hashing scheme, termed
\emph{zero-shot hashing} (ZSH), which compresses images of "unseen" categories
to binary codes with hash functions learned from limited training data of
"seen" categories. Specifically, we project independent data labels i.e.
0/1-form label vectors) into semantic embedding space, where semantic
relationships among all the labels can be precisely characterized and thus seen
supervised knowledge can be transferred to unseen classes. Moreover, in order
to cope with the semantic shift problem, we rotate the embedded space to more
suitably align the embedded semantics with the low-level visual feature space,
thereby alleviating the influence of semantic gap. In the meantime, to exert
positive effects on learning high-quality hash functions, we further propose to
preserve local structural property and discrete nature in binary codes.
Besides, we develop an efficient alternating algorithm to solve the ZSH model.
Extensive experiments conducted on various real-life datasets show the superior
zero-shot image retrieval performance of ZSH as compared to several
state-of-the-art hashing methods.Comment: 11 page
Optimal data collection design in machine learning: the case of the fixed effects generalized least squares panel data model
AbstractThis work belongs to the strand of literature that combines machine learning, optimization, and econometrics. The aim is to optimize the data collection process in a specific statistical model, commonly used in econometrics, employing an optimization criterion inspired by machine learning, namely, the generalization error conditioned on the training input data. More specifically, the paper is focused on the analysis of the conditional generalization error of the Fixed Effects Generalized Least Squares (FEGLS) panel data model, i.e., a linear regression model with applications in several fields, able to represent unobserved heterogeneity in the data associated with different units, for which distinct observations related to the same unit are corrupted by correlated measurement errors. The framework considered in this work differs from the classical FEGLS model for the additional possibility of controlling the conditional variance of the output variable given the associated unit and input variables, by changing the cost per supervision of each training example. Assuming an upper bound on the total supervision cost, i.e., the cost associated with the whole training set, the trade-off between the training set size and the precision of supervision (i.e., the reciprocal of the conditional variance of the output variable) is analyzed and optimized. This is achieved by formulating and solving in closed form suitable optimization problems, based on large-sample approximations of the generalization error associated with the FEGLS estimates of the model parameters, conditioned on the training input data. The results of the analysis extend to the FEGLS case and to various large-sample approximations of its conditional generalization error the ones obtained by the authors in recent works for simpler linear regression models. They highlight the importance of how the precision of supervision scales with respect to the cost per training example in determining the optimal trade-off between training set size and precision. Numerical results confirm the validity of the theoretical findings
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