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A Survey on Semi-, Self- and Unsupervised Learning for Image Classification
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While deep learning strategies achieve outstanding results in computer vision tasks, one issue remains: The current strategies rely heavily on a huge amount of labeled data. In many real-world problems, it is not feasible to create such an amount of labeled training data. Therefore, it is common to incorporate unlabeled data into the training process to reach equal results with fewer labels. Due to a lot of concurrent research, it is difficult to keep track of recent developments. In this survey, we provide an overview of often used ideas and methods in image classification with fewer labels. We compare 34 methods in detail based on their performance and their commonly used ideas rather than a fine-grained taxonomy. In our analysis, we identify three major trends that lead to future research opportunities. 1. State-of-the-art methods are scalable to real-world applications in theory but issues like class imbalance, robustness, or fuzzy labels are not considered. 2. The degree of supervision which is needed to achieve comparable results to the usage of all labels is decreasing and therefore methods need to be extended to settings with a variable number of classes. 3. All methods share some common ideas but we identify clusters of methods that do not share many ideas. We show that combining ideas from different clusters can lead to better performance.
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This survey reviews semi-, self-, and unsupervised learning for image classification, comparing 34 methods by their shared ideas and reported performance rather than a fine-grained taxonomy. It identifies three trends: limited real-world scalability, decreasing supervision requirements, and benefits from combining ideas across method clusters.
Key findings
- Across four datasets, reduced supervised methods approach supervised performance: on CIFAR-10, MixMatch and FixMatch exceed 95% accuracy and are roughly 3% below the fully supervised baseline; on CIFAR-100, FixMatch reaches about 77% versus a supervised baseline of about 80%.
- On STL-10, EnAET achieves more than 95%, and FixMatch reports nearly 95% with only 1,000 labels; reduced supervised methods can surpass the supervised baseline by about 20% due to the additional unlabeled data.
- On ILSVRC-2012, SimCLRv2 achieves the best reported Top-1 accuracy of 80.9% and Top-5 accuracy around 96%; only SimCLR, BYOL, and SimCLRv2 are less than 10% worse than the supervised baseline of around 86%.
- The survey concludes that reduced supervised learning reaches comparable results using roughly 10% of labels, and that combining ideas from different clusters can improve performance.
Methods
- Survey design: compares 34 methods for image classification, grouping them by training strategy—one-stage-semi-supervised, one-stage-unsupervised, and multi-stage-semi-supervised—and by common ideas such as cross-entropy, pseudo-labels, pretext tasks, contrastive loss, mutual information, overclustering, and mixup.
- Data and evaluation: analyzes reported results on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, STL-10, and ILSVRC-2012, using classification accuracy or cluster accuracy for unsupervised methods.
- Analysis: relies on results reported in the original papers or cross-references rather than recreating every method in a unified setup, and focuses on general trends and specialties instead of small performance differences.
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- Stated: the comparison uses reported values rather than a unified reimplementation, and differences in architectures, implementations, and adherence to semi-supervised evaluation guidelines may affect comparability.
- Stated: the common-idea framework is fuzzy and incomplete by definition, and the survey excludes related topics such as metric learning, meta learning, GANs, graph networks, pose estimation, segmentation, videos, sketches, and few-/zero-shot learning.
- Evident: the survey does not claim a complete method list and does not present new experiments; its conclusions depend on the availability and consistency of results reported by the reviewed papers.
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“For CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and ILSVRC-2012 we have a gap of less than 5% left between total supervised and reduced supervised learning.”
§ A Survey on Semi-, Self-and Unsupervised Learning for Image Classification > 2) TREND: HOW MUCH SUPERVISION IS NEEDED?
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“The unsupervised methods are separated from the supervised baseline by a clear margin of up to 10%.”
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“In the comparison, we identified that few common ideas are shared by one-stage-semi-supervised and multi-stagesemi-supervised methods.”
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“For the STL-10 dataset, most methods report a better result than the supervised baseline.”
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“The performance gap between supervised and semi-or self-supervised methods is closing and the number of labels to get comparable results to fully supervised learning is decreasing.”
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§ A Survey on Semi-, Self-and Unsupervised Learning for Image Classification > COMPARISON CONCERNING USED COMMON IDEAS
“All one-stage-semi-supervised methods use a cross-entropy loss during training”
§ A Survey on Semi-, Self-and Unsupervised Learning for Image Classification > COMPARISON CONCERNING USED COMMON IDEAS
“All one-stage-semi-supervised methods use no CE and often use a pretext task.”
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§ A Survey on Semi-, Self-and Unsupervised Learning for Image Classification > MEAN SQUARED ERROR (MSE)
“= H (P(•|f (x)) + H (P(•|f (x)) | P(•|f (y))) (5”
§ A Survey on Semi-, Self-and Unsupervised Learning for Image Classification > V. CONCLUSION
“MI balances the effects of maximizing the entropy with a uniform distribution for P(•|f (x)) and minimizing the conditional entropy by equalizing P(•|f (x)) and P(•|f (y)).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schmarje, L., Santarossa, M., Schroder, S.-M., & Koch, R.
- Affiliations
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (DE)
- Venue
- IEEE Access
- Published
- 2021
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 82146-82168
- ISSN
- 2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3171229070
- Cited by
- 246
- References
- 120
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 47 · 2021: 31
- FWCI
- 13.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- IEEE Access (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- MACAU: Open Access Repository of Kiel University (University Library Kiel) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Land Schleswig-Holstein through the Open Access Publikationsfonds Funding Program
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Algorithms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Data Classification
- Keywords
- image classification, semi-supervised learning, self-supervised learning, unsupervised learning, limited labeled data, unlabeled data, class imbalance, fuzzy labels, method comparison
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Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
