Presentation 2017-06-24
Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Non-Negative Risk Estimator
Ryuichi Kiryo, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama,
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Abstract(in English) From only emph{positive}~(P) and emph{unlabeled}~(U) data, a binary classifier can be trained with PU learning, in which the state of the art is emph{unbiased PU learning}. However, if its model is very flexible, its empirical risk on training data will go negative and we will suffer from serious overfitting. In this paper, we propose a emph{non-negative risk estimator} for PU learning. When being minimized, it is more robust against overfitting and thus we are able to train very flexible models given limited P data. Moreover, we analyze the emph{bias}, emph{consistency} and emph{mean-squared-error reduction} of the proposed risk estimator and the emph{estimation error} of the corresponding risk minimizer. Experiments show that the proposed risk estimator successfully fixes the overfitting problem of its unbiased counterparts.
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Keyword(in English) Supervised Learning / Classification / Positive-Unlabeled Learning / PU Learning
Paper # IBISML2017-4
Date of Issue 2017-06-17 (IBISML)

Conference Information
Committee NC / IPSJ-BIO / IBISML / IPSJ-MPS
Conference Date 2017/6/23(3days)
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Place (in English) Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
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Topics (in English) Machine Learning Approach to Biodata Mining, and General
Chair Masafumi Hagiwara(Keio Univ.) / / Kenji Fukumizu(ISM)
Vice Chair Yutaka Hirata(Chubu Univ.) / / Masashi Sugiyama(Univ. of Tokyo)
Secretary Yutaka Hirata(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / (Nagoya Univ.) / Masashi Sugiyama / (Kyoto Univ.)
Assistant Yoshihisa Shinozawa(Keio Univ.) / Keiichiro Inagaki(Chubu Univ.) / / Ichiro Takeuchi(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Toshihiro Kamishima(AIST)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics and Genomics / Technical Committee on Infomation-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning / Special Interest Group on Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving
Language ENG
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Title (in English) Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Non-Negative Risk Estimator
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Supervised Learning
Keyword(2) Classification
Keyword(3) Positive-Unlabeled Learning
Keyword(4) PU Learning
1st Author's Name Ryuichi Kiryo
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo/RIKEN(Univ. of Tokyo/RIKEN)
2nd Author's Name Gang Niu
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(Univ. of Tokyo)
3rd Author's Name Masashi Sugiyama
3rd Author's Affiliation RIKEN/The University of Tokyo(RIKEN/Univ. of Tokyo)
Date 2017-06-24
Paper # IBISML2017-4
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) IBISML-110
Page pp.pp.63-70(IBISML),
#Pages 8
Date of Issue 2017-06-17 (IBISML)