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Overcoming the curse of dimensionality with Laplacian regularization in semi-supervised learning
Vivien Cabannes · Loucas Pillaud-Vivien · Francis Bach · Alessandro Rudi

Thu Dec 09 08:30 AM -- 10:00 AM (PST) @
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As annotations of data can be scarce in large-scale practical problems, leveraging unlabelled examples is one of the most important aspects of machine learning. This is the aim of semi-supervised learning. To benefit from the access to unlabelled data, it is natural to diffuse smoothly knowledge of labelled data to unlabelled one. This induces to the use of Laplacian regularization. Yet, current implementations of Laplacian regularization suffer from several drawbacks, notably the well-known curse of dimensionality. In this paper, we design a new class of algorithms overcoming this issue, unveiling a large body of spectral filtering methods. Additionally, we provide a statistical analysis showing that our estimators exhibit desirable behaviors. They are implemented through (reproducing) kernel methods, for which we provide realistic computational guidelines in order to make our method usable with large amounts of data.

Keywords: Machine Learning · Kernel Methods · Semi-Supervised Learning

Author Information

Vivien Cabannes (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Loucas Pillaud-Vivien (EPFL)
Francis Bach (INRIA - Ecole Normale Superieure)
Alessandro Rudi (INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure)

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