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Multi-instance partial-label learning (MIPL) is a weakly supervised framework that extends the principles of multi-instance learning (MIL) and partial-label learning (PLL) to address the challenges of inexact supervision in both instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Wei Tang , Yin-Fang Yang , Weijia Zhang , Min-Ling Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable adaptability to diverse tasks, by leveraging context prompts containing instructions, or minimal input-output examples. However, recent work revealed they also exhibit label bias -- an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yuval Reif , Roy Schwartz

Weakly supervised data are widespread and have attracted much attention. However, since label quality is often difficult to guarantee, sometimes the use of weakly supervised data will lead to unsatisfactory performance, i.e., performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li , Ming Li , Jin-Feng Yi , Bo-Wen Zhou , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Training deep neural networks(DNN) with noisy labels is challenging since DNN can easily memorize inaccurate labels, leading to poor generalization ability. Recently, the meta-learning based label correction strategy is widely adopted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

Multilayer perceptron (MLP), one of the most fundamental neural networks, is extensively utilized for classification and regression tasks. In this paper, we establish a new generalization error bound, which reveals how the variance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Feijiang Li , Liuya Zhang , Jieting Wang , Tao Yan , Yuhua Qian

Instance- and Label-dependent label Noise (ILN) widely exists in real-world datasets but has been rarely studied. In this paper, we focus on Bounded Instance- and Label-dependent label Noise (BILN), a particular case of ILN where the label…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-14 Jiacheng Cheng , Tongliang Liu , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we introduce the Dependent Noise-based Inaccurate Label Distribution Learning (DN-ILDL) framework to tackle the challenges posed by noise in label distribution learning, which arise from dependencies on instances and labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhiqiang Kou , Jing Wang , Yuheng Jia , Xin Geng

This work studies algorithms for learning from aggregate responses. We focus on the construction of aggregation sets (called bags in the literature) for event-level loss functions. We prove for linear regression and generalized linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Adel Javanmard , Matthew Fahrbach , Vahab Mirrokni

The success of semi-supervised learning crucially relies on the scalability to a huge amount of unlabelled data that are needed to capture the underlying manifold structure for better classification. Since computing the pairwise similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Raphael Petegrosso , Wei Zhang , Zhuliu Li , Yousef Saad , Rui Kuang

We develop the first active learning method for contextual linear optimization. Specifically, we introduce a label acquisition algorithm that sequentially decides whether to request the ``labels'' of feature samples from an unlabeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Mo Liu , Paul Grigas , Heyuan Liu , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Partial label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning framework, where each training instance is associated with a candidate label set, among which only one label is valid. To solve PLL problems, typically methods try to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Bo-Shi Zou , Ming-Kun Xie , Sheng-Jun Huang

Multi-label learning problems have manifested themselves in various machine learning applications. The key to successful multi-label learning algorithms lies in the exploration of inter-label correlations, which usually incur great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Zongting Lyu , Yan Yan , Fei Wu

In multi-task learning, labels are often missing irregularly across samples, which can be fully labeled, partially labeled or unlabeled. The irregular label presence often appears in scientific studies due to experimental limitations. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Mingqian Li , Qiao Han , Ruifeng Li , Yao Yang , Hongyang Chen

Partial label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning problem in which each instance is associated with a candidate label set, and among which only one is true. However, the assumption that the ground-truth label is always…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yu Shi , Ning Xu , Hua Yuan , Xin Geng

We propose Regularized Learning under Label shifts (RLLS), a principled and a practical domain-adaptation algorithm to correct for shifts in the label distribution between a source and a target domain. We first estimate importance weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anqi Liu , Fanny Yang , Animashree Anandkumar

Prompting LLMs offers an efficient way to guide output generation without explicit model training. In the e-commerce domain, prompting-based applications are widely used for tasks such as query understanding, recommender systems, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jingying Zeng , Zhenwei Dai , Hui Liu , Samarth Varshney , Zhiji Liu , Chen Luo , Zhen Li , Qi He , Xianfeng Tang

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

Label Distribution Learning (LDL) is an effective approach for handling label ambiguity, as it can analyze all labels at once and indicate the extent to which each label describes a given sample. Most existing LDL methods consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ziqi Jia , Xiaoyang Qu , Chenghao Liu , Jianzong Wang

In contrast to conventional (single-label) classification, the setting of multilabel classification (MLC) allows an instance to belong to several classes simultaneously. Thus, instead of selecting a single class label, predictions take the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Vu-Linh Nguyen , Eyke Hüllermeier

In practical machine learning applications, it is often challenging to assign accurate labels to data, and increasing the number of labeled instances is often limited. In such cases, Weakly Supervised Learning (WSL), which enables training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tomoya Tate , Kosuke Sugiyama , Masato Uchida