Self-supervised learning uses way more supervisory signals than supervised learning, and enormously more than reinforcement learning. That's why calling it "unsupervised" is totally misleading. That's also why more knowledge about the structure of the world can be learned through self-supervised learning than from the other two paradigms: the data is unlimited, and amount of feedback provided by each example is huge.

In PU learning, a binary classifier is trained from positive (P) and unlabeled (U) data without negative (N) data. Although N data is missing, it sometimes outperforms PN learning (i.e., ordinary supervised learning). Hitherto, neither theoretical nor experimental analysis has been given to explain this phenomenon. In this paper, we theoretically compare PU (and NU) learning against PN learning based on the upper bounds on estimation errors. We find simple conditions when PU and NU learning are likely to outperform PN learning, and we prove that, in terms of the upper bounds, either PU or NU learning (depending on the class-prior probability and the sizes of P and N data) given infinite U data will improve on PN learning.

What a time to be working in the deep learning space! Deep learning is ubiquitous right now. From the top research labs in the world to startups looking to design solutions, deep learning is at the heart of the current technological revolution. We are living in a deep learning wonderland! Whether it's Computer Vision applications or breakthroughs in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), organizations are looking for a piece of the deep learning pie.

Self-supervised learning is one of those recent ML methods that have caused a ripple effect in the data science network, yet have so far been flying under the radar to the extent Entrepreneurs and Fortunes of the world go; the overall population is yet to find out about the idea yet lots of AI society consider it progressive. The paradigm holds immense potential for enterprises too as it can help handle deep learning's most overwhelming issue: data/sample inefficiency and subsequent costly training. Yann LeCun said that if knowledge was a cake, unsupervised learning would be the cake, supervised learning would be the icing on the cake and reinforcement learning would be the cherry on the cake. We realize how to make the icing and the cherry, however, we don't have a clue how to make the cake." Unsupervised learning won't progress a lot and said there is by all accounts a massive conceptual disconnect with regards to how precisely it should function and that it was the dark issue of ...

AI is a considerably massive field.