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Existing HSI classification algorithms that are based on deep learning use a large number of labeled samples to train models to ensure excellent classification effects, but when the labeled samples are insufficient, the deep learning model is prone to overfitting. In practice, there are a large number of unlabeled samples that have not been effectively utilized, so it is meaningful to study a semi-supervised method. In this paper, an adversarial representation learning that is based on a generative adversarial networks (ARL-GAN) method is proposed to solve the small samples problem in hyperspectral image classification by applying GAN to the representation learning domain in a semi-supervised manner. The proposed method has the following distinctive advantages. First, we build a hyperspectral image block generator whose input is the feature vector that is extracted from the encoder and use the encoder as a feature extractor to extract more discriminant information. Second, the distance of the class probability output by the discriminator is used to measure the error between the generated image block and the real image instead of the root mean square error (MSE), so that the encoder can extract more useful information for classification. Third, GAN and conditional entropy are used to improve the utilization of unlabeled data and solve the small sample problem in hyperspectral image classification. Experiments on three public datasets show that the method achieved better classification accuracy with a small number of labeled samples compared to other state-of-the-art methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14112612","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,31]],"date-time":"2022-05-31T02:30:06Z","timestamp":1653964206000},"page":"2612","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Adversarial Representation Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification with Small-Sized Labeled Set"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9467-8765","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuhan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaohua","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2581-840X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tianrui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Hongyun","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Xianghai","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"34","DOI":"10.1109\/MSP.2013.2278992","article-title":"Hyperspectral target detection: An overview of current and future challenges","volume":"31","author":"Nasrabadi","year":"2013","journal-title":"IEEE Signal Process. 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