Kernel-based transition probability toward similarity measure for semi-supervised learning

作者:

Highlights:

• We propose novel similarity measure from the probabilistic viewpoint.

• Kernel-based transition probabilities (KTPs) are fundamental to derive the similarity.

• A computationally efficient method is presented for computing KTP.

• Multiple kernels are probabilistically combined into novel similarity/kernel via KTP.

• The experimental results on various datasets exhibit favorable performance.

摘要

Highlights•We propose novel similarity measure from the probabilistic viewpoint.•Kernel-based transition probabilities (KTPs) are fundamental to derive the similarity.•A computationally efficient method is presented for computing KTP.•Multiple kernels are probabilistically combined into novel similarity/kernel via KTP.•The experimental results on various datasets exhibit favorable performance.

论文关键词:Semi-supervised learning,Similarity measure,Kernel-based method,Multiple kernel integrated similarity,Multiple kernel learning

论文评审过程:Received 28 February 2013, Revised 7 November 2013, Accepted 9 November 2013, Available online 19 November 2013.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2013.11.011