Skip to yearly menu bar Skip to main content


Poster

Multi-Resolution Weak Supervision for Sequential Data

Paroma Varma · Frederic Sala · Shiori Sagawa · Jason A Fries · Dan Fu · Saelig Khattar · Ashwini Ramamoorthy · Ke Xiao · Kayvon Fatahalian · James Priest · Christopher RĂ©

East Exhibition Hall B + C #110

Keywords: [ Latent Variable Models ] [ Applications -> Video Analysis; Deep Learning -> Efficient Training Methods; Probabilistic Methods ] [ Algorithms ]


Abstract:

Since manually labeling training data is slow and expensive, recent industrial and scientific research efforts have turned to weaker or noisier forms of supervision sources. However, existing weak supervision approaches fail to model multi-resolution sources for sequential data, like video, that can assign labels to individual elements or collections of elements in a sequence. A key challenge in weak supervision is estimating the unknown accuracies and correlations of these sources without using labeled data. Multi-resolution sources exacerbate this challenge due to complex correlations and sample complexity that scales in the length of the sequence. We propose Dugong, the first framework to model multi-resolution weak supervision sources with complex correlations to assign probabilistic labels to training data. Theoretically, we prove that Dugong, under mild conditions, can uniquely recover the unobserved accuracy and correlation parameters and use parameter sharing to improve sample complexity. Our method assigns clinician-validated labels to population-scale biomedical video repositories, helping outperform traditional supervision by 36.8 F1 points and addressing a key use case where machine learning has been severely limited by the lack of expert labeled data. On average, Dugong improves over traditional supervision by 16.0 F1 points and existing weak supervision approaches by 24.2 F1 points across several video and sensor classification tasks.

Live content is unavailable. Log in and register to view live content