Inference with the Universum

Weston, J; Collobert, R; Sinz, F; Bottou, L; Vapnik, V

doi:10.1145/1143844.1143971

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Inference with the Universum

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Sinz, F
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Weston, J., Collobert, R., Sinz, F., Bottou, L., & Vapnik, V. (2006). Inference with the Universum. In W. Cohen, & A. Moore (Eds.), ICML '06: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (pp. 1009-1016). New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.

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WIn this paper we study a new framework introduced by Vapnik (1998) and Vapnik (2006) that is an alternative capacity concept to the large margin approach. In the particular case of binary classification, we are given a set of labeled examples, and a collection of "non-examples" that do not belong to either class of interest. This collection, called the Universum, allows one to encode prior knowledge by representing meaningful concepts in the same domain as the problem at hand. We describe an algorithm to leverage the Universum by maximizing the number of observed contradictions, and show experimentally that this approach delivers accuracy improvements over using labeled data alone.