Title
Self-supervised ARTMAP
Abstract
Computational models of learning typically train on labeled input patterns (supervised learning), unlabeled input patterns (unsupervised learning), or a combination of the two (semi-supervised learning). In each case input patterns have a fixed number of features throughout training and testing. Human and machine learning contexts present additional opportunities for expanding incomplete knowledge from formal training, via self-directed learning that incorporates features not previously experienced. This article defines a new self-supervised learning paradigm to address these richer learning contexts, introducing a neural network called self-supervised ARTMAP. Self-supervised learning integrates knowledge from a teacher (labeled patterns with some features), knowledge from the environment (unlabeled patterns with more features), and knowledge from internal model activation (self-labeled patterns). Self-supervised ARTMAP learns about novel features from unlabeled patterns without destroying partial knowledge previously acquired from labeled patterns. A category selection function bases system predictions on known features, and distributed network activation scales unlabeled learning to prediction confidence. Slow distributed learning on unlabeled patterns focuses on novel features and confident predictions, defining classification boundaries that were ambiguous in the labeled patterns. Self-supervised ARTMAP improves test accuracy on illustrative low-dimensional problems and on high-dimensional benchmarks. Model code and benchmark data are available from: http://techlab.eu.edu/SSART/ .
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.neunet.2009.07.026
Neural Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
self directed learning,machine learning,unsupervised learning,neural network,computer model,supervised learning,semi supervised learning,adaptive resonance theory,internal model
Adaptive resonance theory,Semi-supervised learning,Multidimensional analysis,Supervised learning,Computational model,Unsupervised learning,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Machine learning,Complete information,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
2
Neural Networks
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.51
18
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gregory P. Amis1221.75
Gail A. Carpenter22909760.83