2010 SemiSupervisedSparseMetricLearn

• (Liu et al., 2010) ⇒ Wei Liu, Shiqian Ma, Dacheng Tao, Jianzhuang Liu, and Peng Liu. (2010). “Semi-supervised Sparse Metric Learning Using Alternating Linearization Optimization.” In: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2010). doi:10.1145/1835804.1835947

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Metric learning, semi-supervised sparse metric learning, sparse inverse covariance estimation, alternating linearization.

Abstract

In plenty of scenarios, data can be represented as vectors and then mathematically abstracted as points in a Euclidean space. Because a great number of machine learning and data mining applications need proximity measures over data, a simple and universal distance metric is desirable, and metric learning methods have been explored to produce sensible distance measures consistent with data relationship. However, most existing methods suffer from limited labeled data and expensive training. In this paper, we address these two issues through employing abundant unlabeled data and pursuing sparsity of metrics, resulting in a novel metric learning approach called semi-supervised sparse metric learning. Two important contributions of our approach are: 1) it propagates scarce prior affinities between data to the global scope and incorporates the full affinities into the metric learning; and 2) it uses an efficient alternating linearization method to directly optimize the sparse metric. Compared with conventional methods, ours can effectively take advantage of semi-supervision and automatically discover the sparse metric structure underlying input data patterns. We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach with extensive experiments carried out on six datasets, obtaining clear performance gains over the state-of-the-arts.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2010 SemiSupervisedSparseMetricLearn	Wei Liu Shiqian Ma Dacheng Tao Jianzhuang Liu Peng Liu			Semi-supervised Sparse Metric Learning Using Alternating Linearization Optimization		KDD-2010 Proceedings		10.1145/1835804.1835947		2010