On transductive regression

Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri

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Abstract

In many modern large-scale learning applications, the amount of unlabeled data far exceeds that of labeled data. A common instance of this problem is the transductive setting where the unlabeled test points are known to the learning algorithm. This paper presents a study of regression problems in that setting. It presents explicit VC-dimension error bounds for transductive regression that hold for all bounded loss functions and coincide with the tight classification bounds of Vapnik when applied to classification. It also presents a new transductive regression algorithm inspired by our bound that admits a primal and kernelized closed-form solution and deals efficiently with large amounts of unlabeled data. The algorithm exploits the position of unlabeled points to locally estimate their labels and then uses a global optimization to ensure robust predictions. Our study also includes the results of experiments with several publicly available regression data sets with up to 20,000 unlabeled examples. The comparison with other transductive regression algorithms shows that it performs well and that it can scale to large data sets.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19 - Proceedings of the 2006 Conference
Pages305-312
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2007
Event20th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2006 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: Dec 4 2006Dec 7 2006

Publication series

NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
ISSN (Print)1049-5258

Other

Other20th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2006
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period12/4/0612/7/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Signal Processing

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