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Deep learning-based methods have become the de facto standard for industrial defect detection. However, their data-hungry nature and inherent "black-box" characteristics often lead to performance bottlenecks and limited trustworthiness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hang-Cheng Dong , Guodong Liu , Dong Ye , Bingguo Liu

Classification is a fundamental task in machine learning. While conventional methods-such as binary, multiclass, and multi-label classification-are effective for simpler problems, they may not adequately address the complexities of some…

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

Label smoothing is widely used in deep neural networks for multi-class classification. While it enhances model generalization and reduces overconfidence by aiming to lower the probability for the predicted class, it distorts the predicted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mohamed Maher , Meelis Kull

Many classification problems involve data instances that are interlinked with each other, such as webpages connected by hyperlinks. Techniques for "collective classification" (CC) often increase accuracy for such data graphs, but usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Luke McDowell , David Aha

One important characteristic of modern fault classification systems is the ability to flag the system when faced with previously unseen fault types. This work considers the unknown fault detection capabilities of deep neural network-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Nurettin Sergin , Jiayu Huang , Tzyy-Shuh Chang , Hao Yan

Most information in our world is organized hierarchically; however, many Deep Learning approaches do not leverage this semantically rich structure. Research suggests that human learning benefits from exploiting the hierarchical structure of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Alexandru Manole , Laura Diosan

In this work, we propose a simple yet effective meta-learning algorithm in semi-supervised learning. We notice that most existing consistency-based approaches suffer from overfitting and limited model generalization ability, especially when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Xin-Yu Zhang , Taihong Xiao , Haolin Jia , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Taxonomy is a hierarchically structured knowledge graph that plays a crucial role in machine intelligence. The taxonomy expansion task aims to find a position for a new term in an existing taxonomy to capture the emerging knowledge in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Suyuchen Wang , Ruihui Zhao , Xi Chen , Yefeng Zheng , Bang Liu

Taxonomy building is a task that requires interpreting and classifying data within a given frame of reference, which comes to play in many areas of application that deal with knowledge and information organization. In this paper, we explore…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Sebastian Meier , Katrin Glinka

We propose a meta-learning method for learning from multiple noisy annotators. In many applications such as crowdsourcing services, labels for supervised learning are given by multiple annotators. Since the annotators have different skills…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Taishi Nishiyama , Yasutoshi Ida , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Recent semi-supervised learning methods have shown to achieve comparable results to their supervised counterparts while using only a small portion of labels in image classification tasks thanks to their regularization strategies. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Wei-Hong Li , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Hakan Bilen

One characteristic that sets humans apart from modern learning-based computer vision algorithms is the ability to acquire knowledge about the world and use that knowledge to reason about the visual world. Humans can learn about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Kenneth Marino , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Abhinav Gupta

We propose a meta-learning method for semi-supervised learning that learns from multiple tasks with heterogeneous attribute spaces. The existing semi-supervised meta-learning methods assume that all tasks share the same attribute space,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai

In multi-class classification tasks, like human activity recognition, it is often assumed that classes are separable. In real applications, this assumption becomes strong and generates inconsistencies. Besides, the most commonly used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Aomar Osmani , Massinissa Hamidi , Pegah Alizadeh

Few-shot learning amounts to learning representations and acquiring knowledge such that novel tasks may be solved with both supervision and data being limited. Improved performance is possible by transductive inference, where the entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki , Yannis Avrithis

Multi-level Hierarchical Classification (MLHC) tackles the challenge of categorizing items within a complex, multi-layered class structure. However, traditional MLHC classifiers often rely on a backbone model with independent output layers,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shijing Chen , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Shoaib Jameel , Usman Naseem , Basem Suleiman , Flora D. Salim , Hakim Hacid , Imran Razzak

In this paper, a novel pattern classification approach is proposed by regularizing the classifier learning to maximize mutual information between the classification response and the true class label. We argue that, with the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Jim Jing-Yan Wang , Yi Wang , Shiguang Zhao , Xin Gao

This paper describes a hierarchical system that predicts one label at a time for automated student response analysis. For the task, we build a classification binary tree that delays more easily confused labels to later stages using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Itziar Aldabe , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio , Montse Maritxalar

This paper addresses image classification through learning a compact and discriminative dictionary efficiently. Given a structured dictionary with each atom (columns in the dictionary matrix) related to some label, we propose cross-label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Xiudong Wang , Yuantao Gu