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Hierarchical multi-label classification (HMC) has gained considerable attention in recent decades. A seminal line of HMC research addresses the problem in two stages: first, training individual classifiers for each class, then integrating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuting Ye , Christine Ho , Ci-Ren Jiang , Wayne Tai Lee , Haiyan Huang

Automated ICD-10 coding from clinical discharge summaries requires models that are both accurate on long-tailed multi-label classification tasks and interpretable to clinicians. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) offer a principled framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mohammed Sameer Syed , Xuan Lu

We consider Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification (LMTC) in the legal domain. We release a new dataset of 57k legislative documents from EURLEX, annotated with ~4.3k EUROVOC labels, which is suitable for LMTC, few- and zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Ilias Chalkidis , Manos Fergadiotis , Prodromos Malakasiotis , Ion Androutsopoulos

Although there is an emerging trend towards generating embeddings for primarily unstructured data and, recently, for structured data, no systematic suite for measuring the quality of embeddings has been proposed yet. This deficiency is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Faisal Alshargi , Saeedeh Shekarpour , Tommaso Soru , Amit Sheth

Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification (HMC) faces critical challenges in maintaining structural consistency and balancing loss weighting in Multi-Task Learning (MTL). In order to address these issues, we propose a classifier called HCAL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ruobing Jiang , Mengzhe Liu , Haobing Liu , Yanwei Yu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) learn powerful multimodal representations through large-scale image-text pretraining, but adapting them to hierarchical classification is underexplored. Standard approaches treat labels as flat categories and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jiayu Li , Rajesh Gangireddy , Samet Akcay , Wei Cheng , Juhua Hu

An important problem in multi-label classification is to capture label patterns or underlying structures that have an impact on such patterns. This paper addresses one such problem, namely how to exploit hierarchical structures over labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Jinseok Nam , Johannes Fürnkranz

In this paper, we frame homogeneous-feature multi-task learning (MTL) as a hierarchical representation learning problem, with one task-agnostic and multiple task-specific latent representations. Drawing inspiration from the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 João Machado de Freitas , Sebastian Berg , Bernhard C. Geiger , Manfred Mücke

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) introduce interpretability to black-box deep learning models by predicting labels through human-understandable concepts. However, unlike humans, who identify objects at different levels of abstraction using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haodong Xie , Yujun Cai , Rahul Singh Maharjan , Yiwei Wang , Federico Tavella , Angelo Cangelosi

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is a special sub-task of multi-label classification (MLC) whose taxonomy is constructed as a tree and each sample is assigned with at least one path in the tree. Latest HTC models contain three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhijian Chen , Zhonghua Li , Jianxin Yang , Ye Qi

Extreme multi-label text classification (XMTC) is the task of tagging each document with the relevant labels from a very large space of predefined categories. Recently, large pre-trained Transformer models have made significant performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ruohong Zhang , Yau-Shian Wang , Yiming Yang , Tom Vu , Likun Lei

Image classification is one of the most important areas in computer vision. Hierarchical multi-label classification applies when a multi-class image classification problem is arranged into smaller ones based upon a hierarchy or taxonomy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Khondaker Tasrif Noor , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Brano Kusy

Medical Image Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification (MI-HMC) is of paramount importance in modern healthcare, presenting two significant challenges: data imbalance and \textit{hierarchy constraint}. Existing solutions involve complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Meng Wu , Siyan Luo , Qiyu Wu , Wenbin Ouyang

Large-scale multi-label text classification (LMTC) aims to associate a document with its relevant labels from a large candidate set. Most existing LMTC approaches rely on massive human-annotated training data, which are often costly to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yu Zhang , Zhihong Shen , Chieh-Han Wu , Boya Xie , Junheng Hao , Ye-Yi Wang , Kuansan Wang , Jiawei Han

The recent explosion in work on neural topic modeling has been criticized for optimizing automated topic evaluation metrics at the expense of actual meaningful topic identification. But human annotation remains expensive and time-consuming.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Hamed Rahimi , Jacob Louis Hoover , David Mimno , Hubert Naacke , Camelia Constantin , Bernd Amann

Most existing medication recommendation models learn representations for medical concepts based on electronic health records (EHRs) and make recommendations with learnt representations. However, most medications appear in the dataset for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Weicong Tan , Weiqing Wang , Xin Zhou , Wray Buntine , Gordon Bingham , Hongzhi Yin

The organization of latent token representations plays a crucial role in determining the stability, generalization, and contextual consistency of language models, yet conventional approaches to embedding refinement often rely on parameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Meiquan Dong , Haoran Liu , Yan Huang , Zixuan Feng , Jianhong Tang , Ruoxi Wang

Neural networks have recently been proposed for multi-label classification because they are able to capture and model label dependencies in the output layer. In this work, we investigate limitations of BP-MLL, a neural network (NN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jinseok Nam , Jungi Kim , Eneldo Loza Mencía , Iryna Gurevych , Johannes Fürnkranz

Recent years have witnessed increasing interests in developing interpretable models in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most existing models aim at identifying input features such as words or phrases important for model predictions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Yulan He

Long-tailed multi-label visual recognition (LTML) task is a highly challenging task due to the label co-occurrence and imbalanced data distribution. In this work, we propose a unified framework for LTML, namely prompt tuning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Peng Xia , Di Xu , Ming Hu , Lie Ju , Zongyuan Ge