Further reading

A solid place to start understanding Semi-supervised learning methods is Xiaojin Zhu's very thorough literature survey, available at http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jerryzhu/pub/ssl_survey.pdf.

I also recommend a tutorial by the same author, available in the slide format at http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jerryzhu/pub/sslicml07.pdf.

The key paper on Contastive Pessimistic Likelihood Estimation is Loog's 2015 paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00269.

This chapter made a reference to the distinction between generative and discriminative models. A couple of relatively clear explanations of the distinction between generative and discriminative algorithms are provided by Andrew Ng (http://cs229.stanford.edu/notes/cs229-notes2.pdf) and Michael Jordan ...

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