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Label distribution learning (LDL) is an effective method to predict the label description degree (a.k.a. label distribution) of a sample. However, annotating label distribution (LD) for training samples is extremely costly. So recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yuheng Jia , Jiawei Tang , Jiahao Jiang

The concept of Label Distribution Learning (LDL) is a technique to stabilize classification and regression problems with ambiguous and/or imbalanced labels. A prototypical use-case of LDL is human age estimation based on profile images.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Maurice Günder , Nico Piatkowski , Christian Bauckhage

Label distribution learning (LDL) is a novel paradigm that describe the samples by label distribution of a sample. However, acquiring LDL dataset is costly and time-consuming, which leads to the birth of incomplete label distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiecheng Jiang , Jiawei Tang , Jiahao Jiang , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Yuheng Jia

Label distribution learning (LDL) provides a framework wherein a distribution over categories rather than a single category is predicted, with the aim of addressing ambiguity in labeled data. Existing research on LDL mainly focuses on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Daokun Zhang , Russell Tsuchida , Dino Sejdinovic

Automatic facial age estimation can be used in a wide range of real-world applications. However, this process is challenging due to the randomness and slowness of the aging process. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Xusheng Zeng , Changxing Ding , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Class distribution plays an important role in learning deep classifiers. When the proportion of each class in the test set differs from the training set, the performance of classification nets usually degrades. Such a label distribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Wenao Ma , Cheng Chen , Shuang Zheng , Jing Qin , Huimao Zhang , Qi Dou

Label distribution learning (LDL) is a new machine learning paradigm for solving label ambiguity. Since it is difficult to directly obtain label distributions, many studies are focusing on how to recover label distributions from logical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yifei Wang , Yiyang Zhou , Jihua Zhu , Xinyuan Liu , Wenbiao Yan , Zhiqiang Tian

In this paper, we propose a progressive margin loss (PML) approach for unconstrained facial age classification. Conventional methods make strong assumption on that each class owns adequate instances to outline its data distribution, likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Zongyong Deng , Hao Liu , Yaoxing Wang , Chenyang Wang , Zekuan Yu , Xuehong Sun

Semantic segmentation has been continuously investigated in the last ten years, and majority of the established technologies are based on supervised models. In recent years, image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xiangrong Zhang , Zelin Peng , Peng Zhu , Tianyang Zhang , Chen Li , Huiyu Zhou , Licheng Jiao

Label distribution learning (LDL) is a general learning framework, which assigns to an instance a distribution over a set of labels rather than a single label or multiple labels. Current LDL methods have either restricted assumptions on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Wei Shen , Kai Zhao , Yilu Guo , Alan Yuille

Human age estimation has attracted increasing researches due to its wide applicability in such as security monitoring and advertisement recommendation. Although a variety of methods have been proposed, most of them focus only on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Qing Tian , Songcan Chen , Xiaoyang Tan

Time series forecasting in real-world applications requires both high predictive accuracy and interpretable uncertainty quantification. Traditional point prediction methods often fail to capture the inherent uncertainty in time series data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zhen Zhou , Zhirui Wang , Qi Hong , Yunyang Shi , Ziyuan Gu , Zhiyuan Liu

Dermatological diseases are among the most common disorders worldwide. This paper presents the first study of the interpretability and imbalanced semi-supervised learning of the multiclass intelligent skin diagnosis framework (ISDL) using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Futian Weng , Yuanting Ma , Jinghan Sun , Shijun Shan , Qiyuan Li , Jianping Zhu , Yang Wang , Yan Xu

With basic Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) techniques, one-stage detectors generally obtain limited promotions compared with two-stage clusters. We experimentally find that the root lies in two kinds of ambiguities: (1) Selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chang Liu , Weiming Zhang , Xiangru Lin , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan , Junyu Han , Xiaomao Li , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Facial expression recognition (FER) plays a significant role in our daily life. However, annotation ambiguity in the datasets could greatly hinder the performance. In this paper, we address FER task via label distribution learning paradigm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Shu Liu , Yan Xu , Tongming Wan , Xiaoyan Kui

We introduce a novel approach for annotating large quantity of in-the-wild facial images with high-quality posterior age distribution as labels. Each posterior provides a probability distribution of estimated ages for a face. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Yunxuan Zhang , Li Liu , Cheng Li , Chen change Loy

Label Distribution Learning (LDL) is a novel machine learning paradigm that assigns label distribution to each instance. Many LDL methods proposed to leverage label correlation in the learning process to solve the exponential-sized output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zhiqiang Kou jing wang yuheng jia xin geng

Label distribution learning (LDL) is an emerging learning paradigm designed to capture the relative importance of labels for each instance. Label-specific features (LSFs), constructed by LIFT, have proven effective for learning tasks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Suping Xu , Chuyi Dai , Lin Shang , Changbin Shao , Xibei Yang , Witold Pedrycz

Two challenges lie in the facial attractiveness computation research: the lack of true attractiveness labels (scores), and the lack of an accurate face representation. In order to address the first challenge, this paper recasts facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Shu Liu , Bo Li , Yangyu Fan , Zhe Guo , Ashok Samal

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