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Laplacian Welsch Regularization for Robust Semisupervised Learning

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Jingchen Ke
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龚晨 (Chen Gong) *
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Tongliang Liu
赵林 (Lin Zhao)
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Jian Yang
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Dacheng Tao
DOI:10.1109/TCYB.2019.2953337delete
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Semisupervised learning (SSL) has been widely used in numerous practical applications where the labeled training examples are inadequate while the unlabeled examples are abundant. Due to the scarcity of labeled examples, the performances of the existing SSL methods are often affected by the outliers in the labeled data, leading to the imperfect trained classifier. To enhance the robustness of SSL methods to the outliers, this article proposes a novel SSL algorithm called Laplacian Welsch regularization (LapWR). Specifically, apart from the conventional Laplacian regularizer, we also introduce a bounded, smooth, and nonconvex Welsch loss which can suppress the adverse effect brought by the labeled outliers. To handle the model nonconvexity caused by the Welsch loss, an iterative half-quadratic (HQ) optimization algorithm is adopted in which each subproblem has an ideal closed-form solution. To handle the large datasets, we further propose an accelerated model by utilizing the Nystrom method to reduce the computational complexity of LapWR. Theoretically, the generalization bound of LapWR is derived based on analyzing its Rademacher complexity, which suggests that our proposed algorithm is guaranteed to obtain satisfactory performance. By comparing LapWR with the existing representative SSL algorithms on various benchmark and real-world datasets, we experimentally found that LapWR performs robustly to outliers and is able to consistently achieve the top-level results.
Keywords:
Robustness
Laplace equations
Optimization
Manifolds
Computational modeling
Training
Semisupervised learning
Generalization bound
half-quadratic (HQ) optimization
Nystrom method
semisupervised learning (SSL)
Welsch loss
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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics cover
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
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University of Sydney
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