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Multi-label classification (MLC) is a generalization of standard classification where multiple labels may be assigned to a given sample. In the real world, it is more common to deal with noisy datasets than clean datasets, given how modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Wenting Zhao , Carla Gomes

In multi-label learning, the issue of missing labels brings a major challenge. Many methods attempt to recovery missing labels by exploiting low-rank structure of label matrix. However, these methods just utilize global low-rank label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Zhongchen Ma , Songcan Chen

Multi-label classification is prevalent in real-world settings, but the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) in this setting is understudied. We investigate how autoregressive LLMs perform multi-label classification, focusing on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Marcus Ma , Georgios Chochlakis , Niyantha Maruthu Pandiyan , Jesse Thomason , Shrikanth Narayanan

Multi-label learning often requires identifying all relevant labels for training instances, but collecting full label annotations is costly and labor-intensive. In many datasets, only a single positive label is annotated per training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Misgina Tsighe Hagos , Claes Lundström

Semi-supervised learning is a powerful technique for leveraging unlabeled data to improve machine learning models, but it can be affected by the presence of ``informative'' labels, which occur when some classes are more likely to be labeled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-16 Aude Sportisse , Hugo Schmutz , Olivier Humbert , Charles Bouveyron , Pierre-Alexandre Mattei

Since the rise of deep learning, many computer vision tasks have seen significant advancements. However, the downside of deep learning is that it is very data-hungry. Especially for segmentation problems, training a deep neural net requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Robby Neven , Davy Neven , Bert De Brabandere , Marc Proesmans , Toon Goedemé

Large datasets in NLP suffer from noisy labels, due to erroneous automatic and human annotation procedures. We study the problem of text classification with label noise, and aim to capture this noise through an auxiliary noise model over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Siddhant Garg , Goutham Ramakrishnan , Varun Thumbe

Deep learning is very data hungry, and supervised learning especially requires massive labeled data to work well. Machine listening research often suffers from limited labeled data problem, as human annotations are costly to acquire, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Ho-Hsiang Wu , Chieh-Chi Kao , Qingming Tang , Ming Sun , Brian McFee , Juan Pablo Bello , Chao Wang

Collecting labeled data to train deep neural networks is costly and even impractical for many tasks. Thus, research effort has been focused in automatically curated datasets or unsupervised and weakly supervised learning. The common problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Nam Le , Jean-Marc Odobez

In hierarchical multi-label classification, a persistent challenge is enabling model predictions to reach deeper levels of the hierarchy for more detailed or fine-grained classifications. This difficulty partly arises from the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Isaac Xu , Martin Gillis , Ayushi Sharma , Benjamin Misiuk , Craig J. Brown , Thomas Trappenberg

Partial Label Learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning task, which assumes each training instance is annotated with a set of candidate labels containing the ground-truth label. Recent PLL methods adopt identification-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jiayu Hu , Senlin Shu , Beibei Li , Tao Xiang , Zhongshi He

Learning to rank has recently emerged as an attractive technique to train deep convolutional neural networks for various computer vision tasks. Pairwise ranking, in particular, has been successful in multi-label image classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Yuncheng Li , Yale Song , Jiebo Luo

In reality, learning from multi-view multi-label data inevitably confronts three challenges: missing labels, incomplete views, and non-aligned views. Existing methods mainly concern the first two and commonly need multiple assumptions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xiang Li , Songcan Chen

Many real-world classification tasks require predicting multiple labels per instance, necessitating the optimization of complex evaluation metrics such as the $F$-measure and Jaccard index. While the Empirical Utility Maximization (EUM)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mehryar Mohri , Yutao Zhong

Multi-label classification poses challenges due to imbalanced and noisy labels in training data. We propose a unified data augmentation method, named BalanceMix, to address these challenges. Our approach includes two samplers for imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Hwanjun Song , Minseok Kim , Jae-Gil Lee

In a standard multi-output classification scenario, both features and labels of training data are partially observed. This challenging issue is widely witnessed due to sensor or database failures, crowd-sourcing and noisy communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Giancarlo Fissore , Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner , Yufei Han

Multi-label classification studies the task where each example belongs to multiple labels simultaneously. As a representative method, Ranking Support Vector Machine (Rank-SVM) aims to minimize the Ranking Loss and can also mitigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Guoqiang Wu , Ruobing Zheng , Yingjie Tian , Dalian Liu

A straightforward application of semi-supervised machine learning to the problem of treatment effect estimation would be to consider data as "unlabeled" if treatment assignment and covariates are observed but outcomes are unobserved.…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-15 Andrew Herren , P. Richard Hahn

In Multi-Label Learning (MLL), it is extremely challenging to accurately annotate every appearing object due to expensive costs and limited knowledge. When facing such a challenge, a more practical and cheaper alternative should be Single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiang Li , Xinrui Wang , Songcan Chen

In many classification problems, misclassification costs are highly asymmetric, while training labels are often corrupted due to measurement error, annotator variability, or adversarial noise. The Neyman-Pearson multiclass classification…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-22 Qiong Zhang , Qinglong Tian , Pengfei Li