Regularized Semi-Supervised Learning

Regularized semi-supervised learning adds explicit geometric or graph-based penalty terms to a semi-supervised objective so that the decision function varies smoothly over the data manifold. Pioneered through manifold regularization (Belkin, Niyogi & Sindhwani, 2006), it exploits the structure of both labeled and unlabeled examples to learn more accurate models than supervised regularization alone when labeled data are scarce.