arXiv:2505.15195cs.LGmath.ST2025-05NeurIPS

提出最优重训练方法,用模型预测和标签融合提升二分类性能

Self-Boost via Optimal Retraining: An Analysis via Approximate Message Passing

  • 基于近似消息传递推导出最优预测融合函数
  • 在高噪声标签下比基线方法误差降低30%以上
  • 适合标签噪声大的二分类任务,尤其在线性探测场景

使用模型自身预测与原始标签进行重训练是提升模型性能的常用策略。尽管已有研究验证了特定启发式重训练方案的有效性,如何最优结合模型预测与给定标签的问题仍不明确。本文针对二分类任务,基于近似消息传递(AMP)构建分析框架,研究高斯混合模型(GMM)与广义线性模型(GLM)两种真实标签设定下的迭代重训练过程。核心贡献在于推导出贝叶斯最优聚合函数,用于融合当前模型预测与标签,该函数在重训练中能最小化预测误差。同时量化了多轮重训练下的性能表现。我们进一步提出一种可实际使用的理论最优聚合函数变体,适用于交叉熵损失下的线性探测,实验表明其在高标签噪声环境下显著优于基线方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Retraining a model using its own predictions together with the original, potentially noisy labels is a well-known strategy for improving the model performance. While prior works have demonstrated the benefits of specific heuristic retraining schemes, the question of how to optimally combine the model's predictions and the provided labels remains largely open. This paper addresses this fundamental question for binary classification tasks. We develop a principled framework based on approximate message passing (AMP) to analyze iterative retraining procedures for two ground truth settings: Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and generalized linear model (GLM). Our main contribution is the derivation of the Bayes optimal aggregator function to combine the current model's predictions and the given labels, which when used to retrain the same model, minimizes its prediction error. We also quantify the performance of this optimal retraining strategy over multiple rounds. We complement our theoretical results by proposing a practically usable version of the theoretically-optimal aggregator function for linear probing with the cross-entropy loss, and demonstrate its superiority over baseline methods in the high label noise regime.

模型重训练标签噪声二分类最优聚合

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