An Enhanced TranCo-Training Categorization Model with Transfer Learning
TANG Huan-Ling1,YU Li-Ping1,LU Ming-Yu2
1. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing in Universities of Shandong Shandong Institute of Business and Technology,Yantai 264005 2. Information Science and Technology College,Dalian Maritime University,Dalian 116026
Abstract：When unlabeled data draw from different distributions compared with labeled data in semi-supervise learning,the topic biases the target domain and the performance of semi-supervised classifier decreases. The transfer technique is applied to improve the performance of semi-supervised learning in this paper. An enhanced categorization model called TranCo-training is studied which combines transfer learning techniques with co-training methods. The transferability of each unlabeled instance is computed by an important component of TranCo-training according to the consistency with its labeled neighbors. At each iteration,unlabeled instances are transferred from auxiliary dataset according to their transfer ability. Theoretical analysis indicates that transfer ability of an unlabeled instance is inversely proportional to its training error,which minimizes the training error and avoids negative transfer. Thereby,the problem of topic bias in semi-supervised learning is solved. The experimental results show that TranCo-training algorithm achieves better performance than the RdCo-training algorithm when a few labeled data on target domain and abundant unlabeled data on auxiliary domain are provided.
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