Semisupervised Learning via Axiomatic Fuzzy Set Theory and SVM

In this article, we present a semantic semisupervised learning (Semantic SSL) approach targeted at unifying two machine-learning paradigms in a mutually beneficial way, where the classical support vector machine (SVM) learns to reveal primitive logic facts from data, while axiomatic fuzzy set (AFS) theory is utilized to exploit semantic knowledge and correct the wrongly perceived facts for improving the machine-learning model. This novel semisupervised method can easily produce interpretable semantic descriptions to outline different categories by forming a fuzzy set with semantic explanations realized on the basis of the AFS theory. Besides, it is known that disagreement-based semisupervised learning (SSL) can be viewed as an excellent schema so that a co-training approach with SVM and the AFS theory can be utilized to improve the resulting learning performance. Furthermore, an evaluation index is used to prune descriptions to deliver promising performance. Compared with other semisupervised approaches, the proposed approach can build a structure to reflect data-distributed information with unlabeled data and labeled data, so that the hidden information embedded in both labeled and unlabeled data can be sufficiently utilized and can potentially be applied to achieve good descriptions of each category. Experimental results demonstrate that this approach can offer a concise, comprehensible, and precise SSL frame, which strikes a balance between the interpretability and the accuracy.