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ReMixMatch: Semi-Supervised Learning with Distribution Alignment and Augmentation Anchoring

21 Nov 2019arXiv:1911.09785archive 2025-07-28

David Berthelot, Nicholas Carlini, Ekin D. Cubuk, Alex Kurakin, Kihyuk Sohn, Han Zhang, Colin Raffel

We improve the recently-proposed "MixMatch" semi-supervised learning algorithm by introducing two new techniques: distribution alignment and augmentation anchoring. Distribution alignment encourages the marginal distribution of predictions on unlabeled data to be close to the marginal distribution of ground-truth labels. Augmentation anchoring feeds multiple strongly augmented versions of an input into the model and encourages each output to be close to the prediction for a weakly-augmented version of the same input. To produce strong augmentations, we propose a variant of AutoAugment which learns the augmentation policy while the model is being trained. Our new algorithm, dubbed ReMixMatch, is significantly more data-efficient than prior work, requiring between 5× and 16× less data to reach the same accuracy. For example, on CIFAR-10 with 250 labeled examples we reach 93.73% accuracy (compared to MixMatch's accuracy of 93.58% with 4,000 examples) and a median accuracy of 84.92% with just four labels per class. We make our code and data open-source at https://github.com/google-research/remixmatch.

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Image ClassificationSemi-Supervised Image Classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Classification STL-10 ReMixMatch (K=4) Percentage correct 93.82 #24 of 117 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification STL-10 ReMixMatch (K=1) Percentage correct 93.23 #26 of 117 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification STL-10 MixMatch Percentage correct 89.82 #36 of 117 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification STL-10 CC-GAN Percentage correct 77.80 #70 of 117 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification STL-10 SWWAE Percentage correct 74.30 #78 of 117 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Image Classification CIFAR-10, 250 Labels ReMixMatch Percentage error 6.27 #19 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Image Classification CIFAR-10, 40 Labels ReMixMatch Percentage error 19.10 #21 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Image Classification CIFAR-10, 4000 Labels ReMixMatch Percentage error 5.14 #24 of 49 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Image Classification CIFAR-100, 2500 Labels ReMixMatch Percentage error 27.43±0.31 #14 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Image Classification CIFAR-100, 400 Labels ReMixMatch Percentage error 44.28±2.06 #17 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Image Classification STL-10, 1000 Labels ReMixMatch Accuracy 93.82 #8 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Image Classification SVHN, 1000 labels ReMixMatch Accuracy 97.17 #6 of 17 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Image Classification cifar10, 250 Labels ReMixMatch Percentage correct 93.73 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report

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