Centroid Estimation With Guaranteed Efficiency: A General Framework for Weakly Supervised Learning

In this paper, we propose a general framework termed centroid estimation with guaranteed efficiency (CEGE) for weakly supervised learning (WSL) with incomplete, inexact, and inaccurate supervision. The core of our framework is to devise an unbiased and statistically efficient risk estimator that is applicable to various weak supervision. Specifically, by decomposing the loss function (e.g., the sq...