Summary of Pual: a Classifier on Trifurcate Positive-unlabeled Data, by Xiaoke Wang et al.
PUAL: A Classifier on Trifurcate Positive-Unlabeled Data
by Xiaoke Wang, Xiaochen Yang, Rui Zhu, Jing-Hao Xue
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A machine learning educator writing for a technical audience will find that this paper proposes a Positive-unlabeled (PU) classifier with asymmetric loss (PUAL) to improve performance on trifurcate data, where positive instances are distributed on both sides of negative instances. The PUAL method incorporates an asymmetric loss structure into the objective function of the global and local learning classifier, allowing for non-linear decision boundaries through a kernel-based algorithm. Experimental results on simulated and real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of PUAL in achieving satisfactory classification performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding a way to train a computer model using only some examples that are correctly labeled as positive, and other examples that aren’t labeled at all. The goal is to make the model good at telling apart positive instances from negative ones, even when the positive instances are scattered on both sides of the negative ones. To solve this problem, the authors propose a new way of training the model using an “asymmetric loss” strategy. This approach helps the model create a non-linear boundary between positive and negative instances. The results show that this method works well for real-world data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Machine learning » Objective function
