cs.LGApr 29, 2026

Semi-supervised learning with max-margin graph cuts

Authors: Branislav KvetonMichal ValkoAli RahimiLing Huang

Organizations: Intel Labs Santa Clara · University of Pittsburgh · Intel Labs Berkeley

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for semisupervised learning. This algorithm learns graph cuts that maximize the margin with respect to the labels induced by the harmonic function solution. We motivate the approach, compare it to existing work, and prove a bound on its generalization error. The quality of our solutions is evaluated on a synthetic problem and three UCI ML repository datasets. In most cases, we outperform manifold regularization of support vector machines, which is a state-of-the-art approach to semi-supervised max-margin learning.

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