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Learning with label proportions (LLP), which is a learning task that only provides unlabeled data in bags and each bag's label proportion, has widespread successful applications in practice. However, most of the existing LLP methods don't…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yanshan Xiao , HuaiPei Wang , Bo Liu

In the problem of learning with label proportions, which we call LLP learning, the training data is unlabeled, and only the proportions of examples receiving each label are given. The goal is to learn a hypothesis that predicts the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Benjamin Fish , Lev Reyzin

In the task of Learning from Label Proportions (LLP), a model is trained on groups (a.k.a bags) of instances and their corresponding label proportions to predict labels for individual instances. LLP has been applied pre-dominantly on two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Anand Brahmbhatt , Mohith Pokala , Rishi Saket , Aravindan Raghuveer

Learning from label proportions (LLP), i.e., a challenging weakly-supervised learning task, aims to train a classifier by using bags of instances and the proportions of classes within bags, rather than annotated labels for each instance.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Tianhao Ma , Han Chen , Juncheng Hu , Yungang Zhu , Ximing Li

In recent years the framework of learning from label proportions (LLP) has been gaining importance in machine learning. In this setting, the training examples are aggregated into subsets or bags and only the average label per bag is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Venkatesan Guruswami , Rishi Saket

Learning from Label Proportions (LLP) is a learning problem where only aggregate level labels are available for groups of instances, called bags, during training, and the aim is to get the best performance at the instance-level on the test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Shreyas Havaldar , Navodita Sharma , Shubhi Sareen , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Aravindan Raghuveer

Deep learning algorithms have recently produced state-of-the-art accuracy in many classification tasks, but this success is typically dependent on access to many annotated training examples. For domains without such data, an attractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Ehsan Mohammady Ardehaly , Aron Culotta

In learning from aggregate labels, the training data consists of sets or "bags" of feature-vectors (instances) along with an aggregate label for each bag derived from the (usually {0,1}-valued) labels of its instances. In learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yukti Makhija , Rishi Saket

In this paper, we address the segmentation of tumor subtypes in whole slide images (WSI) by utilizing incomplete label proportions. Specifically, we utilize `partial' label proportions, which give the proportions among tumor subtypes but do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Shinnosuke Matsuo , Daiki Suehiro , Seiichi Uchida , Hiroaki Ito , Kazuhiro Terada , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Ryoma Bise

In recent years, Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) has achieved impressive recognition accuracy, despite minimal inter-class variations. However, existing methods heavily rely on instance-level labels, making them impractical in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jinyi Chang , Dongliang Chang , Lei Chen , Bingyao Yu , Zhanyu Ma

The paper proposes a novel multi-class Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL) problem called Learning from Majority Label (LML). In LML, the majority class of instances in a bag is assigned as the bag-level label. The goal of LML is to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Shiku Kaito , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Daiki Suehiro , Ryoma Bise

Multiple Instance Regression (MIR) and Learning from Label Proportions (LLP) are learning frameworks arising in many applications, where the training data is partitioned into disjoint sets or bags, and only an aggregate label i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Sushant Agarwal , Yukti Makhija , Rishi Saket , Aravindan Raghuveer

The paper proposes a novel problem in multi-class Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL) called Learning from the Majority Label (LML). In LML, the majority class of instances in a bag is assigned as the bag's label. LML aims to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Kaito Shiku , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Daiki Suehiro , Ryoma Bise

Learning from Label Proportion (LLP) is a weakly supervised learning scenario in which training data is organized into predefined bags of instances, disclosing only the class label proportions per bag. This paradigm is essential for user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jialiang Wang , Ning Zhang , Shimin Di , Ruidong Wang , Lei Chen

Objective: Using traditional approaches, a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) requires the collection of calibration data for new subjects prior to online use. Calibration time can be reduced or eliminated e.g.~by transfer of a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-05 D Hübner , T Verhoeven , K Schmid , K-R Müller , M Tangermann , P-J Kindermans

Motivated by problems in online advertising, we address the task of Learning from Label Proportions (LLP). We introduce a novel and versatile low-variance debiasing methodology to learn from aggregate label information, significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Lorne Applebaum , Travis Dick , Claudio Gentile , Haim Kaplan , Tomer Koren

Although multi-label learning can deal with many problems with label ambiguity, it does not fit some real applications well where the overall distribution of the importance of the labels matters. This paper proposes a novel learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Xin Geng

Partial label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning problem, where each training example is associated with a set of candidate labels among which only one is true. Most existing PLL approaches assume that the incorrect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ning Xu , Congyu Qiao , Xin Geng , Min-Ling Zhang

By allowing models to predict without task-specific training, in-context learning (ICL) with pretrained LLMs has enormous potential in NLP. However, a number of problems persist in ICL. In particular, its performance is sensitive to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhichao Xu , Daniel Cohen , Bei Wang , Vivek Srikumar

Aligning large language models (LLMs) depends on high-quality datasets of human preference labels, which are costly to collect. Although active learning has been studied to improve sample efficiency relative to passive collection, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yao Zhao , Kwang-Sung Jun