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Learning from Label Proportions with Generative Adversarial Networks

Machine Learning 2019-12-03 v4 Machine Learning

Abstract

In this paper, we leverage generative adversarial networks (GANs) to derive an effective algorithm LLP-GAN for learning from label proportions (LLP), where only the bag-level proportional information in labels is available. Endowed with end-to-end structure, LLP-GAN performs approximation in the light of an adversarial learning mechanism, without imposing restricted assumptions on distribution. Accordingly, we can directly induce the final instance-level classifier upon the discriminator. Under mild assumptions, we give the explicit generative representation and prove the global optimality for LLP-GAN. Additionally, compared with existing methods, our work empowers LLP solver with capable scalability inheriting from deep models. Several experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate vivid advantages of the proposed approach.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02180,
  title  = {Learning from Label Proportions with Generative Adversarial Networks},
  author = {Jiabin Liu and Bo Wang and Zhiquan Qi and Yingjie Tian and Yong Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02180},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Accepted as a conference paper at NeurIPS 2019

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