Learning from labeled and unlabeled data with label propagation

Abstract

We investigate the use of unlabeled data to help labeled data in classification. We propose a simple iterative algorithm, label propagation, to propagate labels through the dataset along high density areas defined by unlabeled data. We analyze the algorithm, show its solution, and its connection to several other algorithms. We also show how to learn parameters by minimum spanning tree heuristic and entropy minimization, and the algorithms ability to perform feature selection. Experiment results are promising.