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Taxonomies are of great value to many knowledge-rich applications. As the manual taxonomy curation costs enormous human effects, automatic taxonomy construction is in great demand. However, most existing automatic taxonomy construction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Jiaming Shen , Zeqiu Wu , Dongming Lei , Chao Zhang , Xiang Ren , Michelle T. Vanni , Brian M. Sadler , Jiawei Han

Label hierarchies are often available apriori as part of biological taxonomy or language datasets WordNet. Several works exploit these to learn hierarchy aware features in order to improve the classifier to make semantically meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Ashima Garg , Depanshu Sani , Saket Anand

Taxonomies have been widely used in various machine learning and text mining systems to organize knowledge and facilitate downstream tasks. One critical challenge is that, as data and business scope grow in real applications, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xiangchen Song , Jiaming Shen , Jieyu Zhang , Jiawei Han

Taxonomies, which organize domain concepts into hierarchical structures, are crucial for building knowledge systems and downstream applications. As domain knowledge evolves, taxonomies need to be continuously updated to include new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Fei Xia , Yixuan Weng , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Taxonomies represent an arborescence hierarchical structure that establishes relationships among entities to convey knowledge within a specific domain. Each edge in the taxonomy signifies a hypernym-hyponym relationship. Taxonomies find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sahil Mishra , Ujjwal Sudev , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Taxonomies consist of machine-interpretable semantics and provide valuable knowledge for many web applications. For example, online retailers (e.g., Amazon and eBay) use taxonomies for product recommendation, and web search engines (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Jiaming Shen , Zhihong Shen , Chenyan Xiong , Chi Wang , Kuansan Wang , Jiawei Han

Hierarchical knowledge structures are ubiquitous across real-world domains and play a vital role in organizing information from coarse to fine semantic levels. While such structures have been widely used in taxonomy systems, biomedical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yunhui Liu , Yongchao Liu , Yinfeng Chen , Chuntao Hong , Tao Zheng , Tieke He

Inspired by the human ability to learn and organize knowledge into hierarchical taxonomies with prototypes, this paper addresses key limitations in current deep hierarchical clustering methods. Existing methods often tie the structure to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zekun Wang , Ethan Haarer , Tianyi Zhu , Zhiyi Dai , Christopher J. MacLellan

Learning hierarchical features in Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) is essential for capturing the structured nature of real-world data and mitigating issues like feature absorption or splitting. Existing works attempt to identify hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tue M. Cao , Hoang X. Nhat , Raed Alharbi , Phi Le Nguyen , My T. Thai

Taxonomies are valuable resources for many applications, but the limited coverage due to the expensive manual curation process hinders their general applicability. Prior works attempt to automatically expand existing taxonomies to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Mingyu Derek Ma , Muhao Chen , Te-Lin Wu , Nanyun Peng

Taxonomies are important knowledge ontologies that underpin numerous applications on a daily basis, but many taxonomies used in practice suffer from the low coverage issue. We study the taxonomy expansion problem, which aims to expand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Yue Yu , Yinghao Li , Jiaming Shen , Hao Feng , Jimeng Sun , Chao Zhang

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is essential for various real applications. However, HTC models are challenging to develop because they often require processing a large volume of documents and labels with hierarchical taxonomy.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 SangHun Im , Gibaeg Kim , Heung-Seon Oh , Seongung Jo , Donghwan Kim

We present a novel end-to-end reinforcement learning approach to automatic taxonomy induction from a set of terms. While prior methods treat the problem as a two-phase task (i.e., detecting hypernymy pairs followed by organizing these pairs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yuning Mao , Xiang Ren , Jiaming Shen , Xiaotao Gu , Jiawei Han

Hierarchical classification (HC) plays a pivotal role in multi-class classification tasks, where objects are organized into a hierarchical structure. This study explores the performance of HC through a comprehensive analysis that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Celal Alagoz

Recognizing similarities among entities is central to both human cognition and computational intelligence. Within this broader landscape, Entity Set Expansion is one prominent task aimed at taking an initial set of (tuples of) entities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Giovanni Amendola , Pietro Cofone , Marco Manna , Aldo Ricioppo

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) depends on taxonomies that organize labels into structured hierarchies. However, many real-world taxonomies introduce ambiguities, such as identical leaf names under similar parent nodes, which prevent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jonas Golde , Nicolaas Jedema , Ravi Krishnan , Phong Le

Demand forecasting in competitive, uncertain business environments requires models that can integrate multiple evaluation perspectives rather than being restricted to hyperparameter optimization based on a single metric. This traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Adolfo González , Víctor Parada

Hierarchy is a natural representation of semantic taxonomies, including the ones routinely used in image segmentation. Indeed, recent work on semantic segmentation reports improved accuracy from supervised training leveraging hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Simon Weber , Barış Zöngür , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers

Hierarchical classification aims to sort the object into a hierarchical structure of categories. For example, a bird can be categorized according to a three-level hierarchy of order, family, and species. Existing methods commonly address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Renzhen Wang , De cai , Kaiwen Xiao , Xixi Jia , Xiao Han , Deyu Meng

In hierarchical text classification, we perform a sequence of inference steps to predict the category of a document from top to bottom of a given class taxonomy. Most of the studies have focused on developing novels neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Kervy Rivas Rojas , Gina Bustamante , Arturo Oncevay , Marco A. Sobrevilla Cabezudo
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