Realistic Evaluation of Deep Semi-Supervised Learning AlgorithmsDownload PDF

Published: 27 Jun 2018, Last Modified: 05 May 2023ICML 2018 RML SubmissionReaders: Everyone
Abstract: Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a powerful framework for leveraging unlabeled data when labels are limited or expensive to obtain. SSL algorithms based on deep neural networks have recently proven successful on standard benchmark tasks. However, we argue that these benchmarks fail to address many issues that these algorithms would face in real-world applications. After creating a unified reimplementation of various widely-used SSL techniques, we test them in a suite of experiments designed to address these issues. We find that the performance of simple baselines which do not use unlabeled data is often underreported, that SSL methods differ in sensitivity to the amount of labeled and unlabeled data, and that performance can degrade substantially when the unlabeled dataset contains out-of-class examples. To help guide SSL research towards real-world applicability, we make our unified reimplemention and evaluation platform publicly available.
Keywords: evaluation, benchmarks, semisupervised, semi-supervised
TL;DR: We test SoTA semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms against a few baselines and across different datasets. We find that non-SSL approaches are competitive, and that adding unlabeled data can hurt.
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