Poster
Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Non-Negative Risk Estimator
Ryuichi Kiryo · Gang Niu · Marthinus C du Plessis · Masashi Sugiyama
Pacific Ballroom #15
Keywords: [ Semi-Supervised Learning ]
From only positive (P) and unlabeled (U) data, a binary classifier could be trained with PU learning, in which the state of the art is unbiased PU learning. However, if its model is very flexible, empirical risks on training data will go negative, and we will suffer from serious overfitting. In this paper, we propose a non-negative risk estimator for PU learning: when getting minimized, it is more robust against overfitting, and thus we are able to use very flexible models (such as deep neural networks) given limited P data. Moreover, we analyze the bias, consistency, and mean-squared-error reduction of the proposed risk estimator, and bound the estimation error of the resulting empirical risk minimizer. Experiments demonstrate that our risk estimator fixes the overfitting problem of its unbiased counterparts.
Live content is unavailable. Log in and register to view live content