arXiv:2509.17971cs.LGcs.AI2025-09中稿 · on Transactions on…被引 3

提出新数据增强方法,显著提升互补标签学习的准确率。

Intra-Cluster Mixup: An Effective Data Augmentation Technique for Complementary-Label Learning

  • 仅在相似样本间合成新数据,减少噪声干扰。
  • 在MNIST和CIFAR上分别提升30%和10%准确率。
  • 适合需要低成本标注的弱监督学习场景。

本文研究互补标签学习(CLL)中的挑战,这是一种弱监督学习形式,模型通过指示实例不属于哪些类别的标签进行训练,而非标准标签。这种监督方式更廉价易得。尽管现有研究多聚焦于新损失函数,但数据增强在该领域仍被忽视。我们发现,传统Mixup在CLL中无效,因其生成的互补标签噪声会降低性能。为此提出改进方法Intra-Cluster Mixup(ICM),仅在邻近样本间合成数据,缓解噪声问题。ICM促进邻近样本间的互补标签共享,在合成与真实数据集上均表现优异。在平衡与非平衡设定下实验表明,ICM可与当前最优算法结合,在MNIST和CIFAR上分别实现30%和10%的准确率提升。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In this paper, we investigate the challenges of complementary-label learning (CLL), a specialized form of weakly-supervised learning (WSL) where models are trained with labels indicating classes to which instances do not belong, rather than standard ordinary labels. This alternative supervision is appealing because collecting complementary labels is generally cheaper and less labor-intensive. Although most existing research in CLL emphasizes the development of novel loss functions, the potential of data augmentation in this domain remains largely underexplored. In this work, we uncover that the widely-used Mixup data augmentation technique is ineffective when directly applied to CLL. Through in-depth analysis, we identify that the complementary-label noise generated by Mixup negatively impacts the performance of CLL models. We then propose an improved technique called Intra-Cluster Mixup (ICM), which only synthesizes augmented data from nearby examples, to mitigate the noise effect. ICM carries the benefits of encouraging complementary label sharing of nearby examples, and leads to substantial performance improvements across synthetic and real-world labeled datasets. In particular, our wide spectrum of experimental results on both balanced and imbalanced CLL settings justifies the potential of ICM in allying with state-of-the-art CLL algorithms, achieving significant accuracy increases of 30% and 10% on MNIST and CIFAR datasets, respectively.

互补标签数据增强弱监督

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