While Multiple Instance (MI) data are point patterns -- sets or multi-sets of unordered points -- appropriate statistical point pattern models have not been used in MI learning. This article proposes a framework for model-based MI learning using point process theory. Likelihood functions for point pattern data derived from point process theory enable principled yet conceptually transparent extensions of learning tasks, such as classification, novelty detection and clustering, to point pattern data. Furthermore, tractable point pattern models as well as solutions for learning and decision making from point pattern data are developed.
@article{arxiv.1703.02155,
title = {Model-Based Multiple Instance Learning},
author = {Ba-Ngu Vo and Dinh Phung and Quang N. Tran and Ba-Tuong Vo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02155},
year = {2017}
}