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Multiple instance learning (MIL) is the preferred approach for whole slide image classification. However, most MIL approaches do not exploit the interdependencies of tiles extracted from a whole slide image, which could provide valuable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Marvin Lerousseau , Maria Vakalopoulou , Eric Deutsch , Nikos Paragios

Uncertainty estimation (UE), as an effective means of quantifying predictive uncertainty, is crucial for safe and reliable decision-making, especially in high-risk scenarios. Existing UE schemes usually assume that there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Pei Liu , Luping Ji

In computational pathology, weak supervision has become the standard for deep learning due to the gigapixel scale of WSIs and the scarcity of pixel-level annotations, with Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) established as the principal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Andreas Lolos , Theofilos Christodoulou , Aris L. Moustakas , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou

In multi-instance (MI) learning, each object (bag) consists of multiple feature vectors (instances), and is most commonly regarded as a set of points in a multidimensional space. A different viewpoint is that the instances are realisations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-16 Kajsa Møllersen , Jon Yngve Hardeberg , Fred Godtliebsen

In Multiple Instance learning (MIL), weak labels are provided at the bag level with only presence/absence information known. However, there is a considerable gap in performance in comparison to a fully supervised model, limiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Anxiang Zhang , Ankit Shah , Bhiksha Raj

The deployment of machine learning solutions in real-world scenarios often involves addressing the challenge of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. While significant efforts have been devoted to OOD detection in classical supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Loïc Le Bescond , Maria Vakalopoulou , Stergios Christodoulidis , Fabrice André , Hugues Talbot

We study the problem of learning from aggregate observations where supervision signals are given to sets of instances instead of individual instances, while the goal is still to predict labels of unseen individuals. A well-known example is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-08 Yivan Zhang , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Zhenguo Wu , Masashi Sugiyama

Multi-view Multi-instance Multi-label Learning(M3L) deals with complex objects encompassing diverse instances, represented with different feature views, and annotated with multiple labels. Existing M3L solutions only partially explore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yuying Xing , Guoxian Yu , Carlotta Domeniconi , Jun Wang , Zili Zhang , Maozu Guo

Convolutional Dictionary Learning (CDL) has emerged as a powerful approach for signal representation by learning translation-invariant features through convolution operations. While existing CDL methods are predominantly designed and used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Hao Chen , Dayuan Tan

We explore multiple instance verification, a problem setting in which a query instance is verified against a bag of target instances with heterogeneous, unknown relevancy. We show that naive adaptations of attention-based multiple instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xin Xu , Eibe Frank , Geoffrey Holmes

Class incremental learning (CIL) algorithms aim to continually learn new object classes from incrementally arriving data while not forgetting past learned classes. The common evaluation protocol for CIL algorithms is to measure the average…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sungmin Cha , Jihwan Kwak , Dongsub Shim , Hyunwoo Kim , Moontae Lee , Honglak Lee , Taesup Moon

With the development of computational pathology, deep learning methods for Gleason grading through whole slide images (WSIs) have excellent prospects. Since the size of WSIs is extremely large, the image label usually contains only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Hao Bian , Zhuchen Shao , Yang Chen , Yifeng Wang , Haoqian Wang , Jian Zhang , Yongbing Zhang

Multiple-instance learning is a subset of weakly supervised learning where labels are applied to sets of instances rather than the instances themselves. Under the standard assumption, a set is positive only there is if at least one instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Daniel Grahn

The quantity and the quality of the training labels are central problems in high-resolution land-cover mapping with machine-learning-based solutions. In this context, weak labels can be gathered in large quantities by leveraging on existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Gianmarco Perantoni , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Positive instance detection, especially for these in positive bags (true positive instances, TPIs), plays a key role for multiple instance learning (MIL) arising from a specific classification problem only provided with bag (a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Dongkuan Xu , Jia Wu , Wei Zhang , Yingjie Tian

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize and recognize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level category labels during training. Without instance-level annotations, most existing methods follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Huan Ren , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

Whole-slide image classification represents a key challenge in computational pathology and medicine. Attention-based multiple instance learning (MIL) has emerged as an effective approach for this problem. However, the effect of attention…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Rajiv Krishnakumar , Julien Baglio , Frederik F. Flöther , Christian Ruiz , Stefan Habringer , Nicole H. Romano

Multi-Instance Multi-Label learning (MIML) models complex objects (bags), each of which is associated with a set of interrelated labels and composed with a set of instances. Current MIML solutions still focus on a single-type of objects and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yuanlin Yang , Guoxian Yu , Jun Wang , Lei Liu , Carlotta Domeniconi , Maozu Guo

With the rapid development of facial manipulation techniques, face forgery has received considerable attention in multimedia and computer vision community due to security concerns. Existing methods are mostly designed for single-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Xiaodan Li , Yining Lang , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaofeng Mao , Yuan He , Shuhui Wang , Hui Xue , Quan Lu

Digitizing pathological images into gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs) has opened new avenues for Computational Pathology (CPath). As positive tissue comprises only a small fraction of gigapixel WSIs, existing Multiple Instance Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wenhao Tang , Sheng Huang , Heng Fang , Fengtao Zhou , Bo Liu , Qingshan Liu