Meng Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Yan Song, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Li-Rong Dai, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Insufficiency of training data is a major obstacle in machine learning and data mining applications. Many different semi-supervised learning algorithms have been proposed to tackle this difficulty by leveraging a large amount of unlabeled data. However, most of them focus on semi-supervised classification. In this paper we propose a semi-supervised regression algorithm named Semi-Supervised Kernel Regression (SSKR). While classical kernel regression is only based on labeled examples, our approach extends it to all observed examples using a weighting factor to modulate the effect of unlabeled examples. Experimental results prove that SSKR significantly outperforms traditional kernel regression and graph-based semi-supervised regression methods.
Citation:
Meng Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Li-Rong Dai, Hong-Jiang Zhang, "Semi-Supervised Kernel Regression," icdm, pp.1130-1135, Sixth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06), 2006