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Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification (HMC) faces critical challenges in maintaining structural consistency and balancing loss weighting in Multi-Task Learning (MTL). In order to address these issues, we propose a classifier called HCAL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ruobing Jiang , Mengzhe Liu , Haobing Liu , Yanwei Yu

Few-Shot Text Classification (FSTC) imitates humans to learn a new text classifier efficiently with only few examples, by leveraging prior knowledge from historical tasks. However, most prior works assume that all the tasks are sampled from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Juan Zha , Zheng Li , Ying Wei , Yu Zhang

This paper considers the problem of Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification (HMC), where (i) several labels can be present for each example, and (ii) labels are related via a domain-specific hierarchy tree. Guided by the intuition that all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Ashwin Vaswani , Gaurav Aggarwal , Praneeth Netrapalli , Narayan G Hegde

Multi-label text classification (MLTC) is an attractive and challenging task in natural language processing (NLP). Compared with single-label text classification, MLTC has a wider range of applications in practice. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Irene Li , Aosong Feng , Hao Wu , Tianxiao Li , Toyotaro Suzumura , Ruihai Dong

Hierarchical classification problems are commonly seen in practice. However, most existing methods do not fully utilize the hierarchical information among class labels. In this paper, a novel label embedding approach is proposed, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-23 Yiwei Fan , Xiaoling Lu , Yufeng Liu , Junlong Zhao

A common use of machine learning (ML) models is predicting the class of a sample. Object detection is an extension of classification that includes localization of the object via a bounding box within the sample. Classification, and by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Erin Lanus , Daniel Wolodkin , Laura J. Freeman

Multi-label classification (MLC) is an important class of machine learning problems that come with a wide spectrum of applications, each demanding a possibly different evaluation criterion. When solving the MLC problems, we generally expect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yao-Yuan Yang , Yi-An Lin , Hong-Min Chu , Hsuan-Tien Lin

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

Multi-label text classification (MLC) is a challenging task in settings of large label sets, where label support follows a Zipfian distribution. In this paper, we address this problem through retrieval augmentation, aiming to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ilias Chalkidis , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Multi-label classification (MLC) is an ML task of predictive modeling in which a data instance can simultaneously belong to multiple classes. MLC is increasingly gaining interest in different application domains such as text mining,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ana Kostovska , Carola Doerr , Sašo Džeroski , Dragi Kocev , Panče Panov , Tome Eftimov

Multi-label classification (MLC) is a supervised learning problem in which, contrary to standard multiclass classification, an instance can be associated with several class labels simultaneously. In this chapter, we advocate a rule-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Eneldo Loza Mencía , Johannes Fürnkranz , Eyke Hüllermeier , Michael Rapp

Text classification with hierarchical labels is a prevalent and challenging task in natural language processing. Examples include assigning ICD codes to patient records, tagging patents into IPC classes, assigning EUROVOC descriptors to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Nan Li , Bo Kang , Tijl De Bie

Hierarchical text classification aims to categorize each document into a set of classes in a label taxonomy, which is a fundamental web text mining task with broad applications such as web content analysis and semantic indexing. Most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yunyi Zhang , Ruozhen Yang , Xueqiang Xu , Rui Li , Jinfeng Xiao , Jiaming Shen , Jiawei Han

In the context of distance oracles, a labeling algorithm computes vertex labels during preprocessing. An $s,t$ query computes the corresponding distance from the labels of $s$ and $t$ only, without looking at the input graph. Hub labels is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Andrew V. Goldberg , Ilya Razenshteyn , Ruslan Savchenko

Hierarchical text classification, which aims to classify text documents into a given hierarchy, is an important task in many real-world applications. Recently, deep neural models are gaining increasing popularity for text classification due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Yu Meng , Jiaming Shen , Chao Zhang , Jiawei Han

Multi-label classification is a common challenge in various machine learning applications, where a single data instance can be associated with multiple classes simultaneously. The current paper proposes a novel tree-based method for…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-01 Chhavi Tyagi , Wenge Guo

Multi-label text classification (MLTC) is the task of assigning multiple labels to a given text, and has a wide range of application domains. Most existing approaches require an enormous amount of annotated data to learn a classifier and/or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Muberra Ozmen , Joseph Cotnareanu , Mark Coates

In this article we propose a novel ranking algorithm, referred to as HierLPR, for the multi-label classification problem when the candidate labels follow a known hierarchical structure. HierLPR is motivated by a new metric called eAUC that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-19 Christine Ho , Yuting Ye , Ci-Ren Jiang , Wayne Tai Lee , Haiyan Huang

Deep learning approaches exhibit promising performances on various text tasks. However, they are still struggling on medical text classification since samples are often extremely imbalanced and scarce. Different from existing mainstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiahuan Yan , Haojun Gao , Zhang Kai , Weize Liu , Danny Chen , Jian Wu , Jintai Chen

Image classification has been studied extensively, but there has been limited work in using unconventional, external guidance other than traditional image-label pairs for training. We present a set of methods for leveraging information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Ankit Dhall , Anastasia Makarova , Octavian Ganea , Dario Pavllo , Michael Greeff , Andreas Krause