Fast Label Embeddings via Randomized Linear Algebra
Abstract
Many modern multiclass and multilabel problems are characterized by increasingly large output spaces. For these problems, label embeddings have been shown to be a useful primitive that can improve computational and statistical efficiency. In this work we utilize a correspondence between rank constrained estimation and low dimensional label embeddings that uncovers a fast label embedding algorithm which works in both the multiclass and multilabel settings. The result is a randomized algorithm whose running time is exponentially faster than naive algorithms. We demonstrate our techniques on two large-scale public datasets, from the Large Scale Hierarchical Text Challenge and the Open Directory Project, where we obtain state of the art results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.6547,
title = {Fast Label Embeddings via Randomized Linear Algebra},
author = {Paul Mineiro and Nikos Karampatziakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.6547},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 2015 conference. Reference implementation available at https://github.com/pmineiro/randembed