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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

Learning from label proportions (LLP) is a promising weakly supervised learning problem. In LLP, a set of instances (bag) has label proportions, but no instance-level labels are given. LLP aims to train an instance-level classifier by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Takanori Asanomi , 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

Learning from label proportions (LLP) aims at learning an instance-level classifier with label proportions in grouped training data. Existing deep learning based LLP methods utilize end-to-end pipelines to obtain the proportional loss with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jiabin Liu , Bo Wang , Xin Shen , Zhiquan Qi , Yingjie Tian

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

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

We propose a learning algorithm capable of learning from label proportions instead of direct data labels. In this scenario, our data are arranged into various bags of a certain size, and only the proportions of each label within a given bag…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Neil Zeghidour , Marco Cuturi , Lucas Beyer , Jean-Philippe Vert

We study binary classification in the setting where the learner is presented with multiple corrupted training samples, with possibly different sample sizes and degrees of corruption, and introduce an approach based on minimizing a weighted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Clayton Scott , Jianxin Zhang

We consider a weakly supervised learning problem called Learning from Label Proportions (LLP), where examples are grouped into ``bags'' and only the average label within each bag is revealed to the learner. We study various learning rules…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Gene Li , Lin Chen , Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni

In this paper, we leverage generative adversarial networks (GANs) to derive an effective algorithm LLP-GAN for learning from label proportions (LLP), where only the bag-level proportional information in labels is available. Endowed with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Jiabin Liu , Bo Wang , Zhiquan Qi , Yingjie Tian , Yong Shi

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

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

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

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

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

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) often suffers under class imbalance, where pseudo-labeling amplifies majority bias and suppresses minority performance. We address this issue with a lightweight framework that, to our knowledge, is the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Kohki Akiba , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Shota Harada , Ryoma Bise

Much of the progress in contemporary NLP has come from learning representations, such as masked language model (MLM) contextual embeddings, that turn challenging problems into simple classification tasks. But how do we quantify and explain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Gregory Yauney , David Mimno

Label distribution learning (LDL) is an effective method to predict the relative label description degree (a.k.a. label distribution) of a sample. However, the label distribution is not a complete representation of an instance because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jiawei Tang , Yuheng Jia

Existing approaches to few-shot learning in NLP rely on large language models (LLMs) and/or fine-tuning of these to generalise on out-of-distribution data. In this work, we propose a novel few-shot learning approach based on soft-label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Avyav Kumar Singh , Ekaterina Shutova , Helen Yannakoudakis