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First of all, I would like to express my appreciation of Dr.-Ing Jens Sauerbrey for his invitation to do a master thesis project under his supervision and for his patient guidance during my master thesis project hold at Infineon Technologies AG in Munich. I was truly very fortunate to have the opportunity to work under him as a master student. In addition to providing his expert guidance in cir...

Learning with limited supervision presents a major challenge to machine learning systems in practice. Fortunately, various types of extra information exist in real-world problems, characterizing the properties of the model space, the feature space and the label space, respectively. With the goal of supervision reduction, this thesis studies the representation, discovery and incorporation of ext...

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i Preface efore starting the actual thesis dissertation, I would like to give to the reader some information about the context in which this research work took place. This research has been done in the CEXAS team of the LIRIS laboratory (formerly in the LISI laboratory), in the university of Lyon I. B It has been started in November 1999 under the supervision of pr. Jean-Marc Fouet, and later o...