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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Universum Prescription: Regularization using Unlabeled Data · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1511.03719/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1511.03719/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Universum Prescription: Regularization using Unlabeled Data — mentioned by kastnerkyle</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611582</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1511.03719:10611582</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:33:29 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;X. Zhang and Y. LeCun had an article [1] about using this technique for regularization very recently. We aren&amp;#x27;t talking specifically about overfitting in this case, but rather a lack of diversity / size in the training data, however it seems like this kind of thing might help for a variety of tasks. One more idea would be to have a (non-differentiable / REINFORCE?) penalty based on sentence likelihood using doc2vec or skip-thoughts to avoid the &amp;quot;blah and a blah on a blah&amp;quot; type errors that seem to be common in captioning. One more would be to use TV / YouTube captions, but that data is…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1511.03719/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item></channel></rss>
