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Recognizing multiple labels of images is a fundamental but challenging task in computer vision, and remarkable progress has been attained by localizing semantic-aware image regions and predicting their labels with deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Tianshui Chen , Zhouxia Wang , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Few-shot fine-grained visual categorization (FS-FGVC) focuses on identifying various subcategories within a common superclass given just one or few support examples. Most existing methods aim to boost classification accuracy by enriching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhiwen Yang , Jinglin Xu , Yuxin Pen

The aim of multi-label few-shot image classification (ML-FSIC) is to assign semantic labels to images, in settings where only a small number of training examples are available for each label. A key feature of the multi-label setting is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Fangyun Wei , Chang Xu , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Selective classification enables models to make predictions only when they are sufficiently confident, aiming to enhance safety and reliability, which is important in high-stakes scenarios. Previous methods mainly use deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yu-Chang Wu , Shen-Huan Lyu , Haopu Shang , Xiangyu Wang , Chao Qian

The "Curse of dimensionality" is prevalent across various data patterns, which increases the risk of model overfitting and leads to a decline in model classification performance. However, few studies have focused on this issue in Partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wanfu Gao , Hanlin Pan , Qingqi Han , Kunpeng Liu

The key to multi-label image classification (MLC) is to improve model performance by leveraging label correlations. Unfortunately, it has been shown that overemphasizing co-occurrence relationships can cause the overfitting issue of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ming-Kun Xie , Jia-Hao Xiao , Pei Peng , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Sheng-Jun Huang

Multi-label (ML) classification is an actively researched topic currently, which deals with convoluted and overlapping boundaries that arise due to several labels being active for a particular data instance. We propose a classifier capable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Anwesha Law , Ashish Ghosh

Concept Factorization (CF), as a novel paradigm of representation learning, has demonstrated superior performance in multi-view clustering tasks. It overcomes limitations such as the non-negativity constraint imposed by traditional matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Qi Jiang , Guoxu Zhou , Qibin Zhao

Feature selection is an important but challenging task in causal inference for obtaining unbiased estimates of causal quantities. Properly selected features in causal inference not only significantly reduce the time required to implement a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-04 Tianyu Yang , Md. Noor-E-Alam

We consider a challenging multi-label classification problem where both feature matrix $\X$ and label matrix $\Y$ have missing entries. An existing method concatenated $\X$ and $\Y$ as $[\X; \Y]$ and applied a matrix completion (MC) method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Miao Xu , Gang Niu , Bo Han , Ivor W. Tsang , Zhi-Hua Zhou , Masashi Sugiyama

In this paper, we aim to develop a unified view of causal and non-causal feature selection methods. The unified view will fill in the gap in the research of the relation between the two types of methods. Based on the Bayesian network…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Kui Yu , Lin Liu , Jiuyong Li

Multi-view multi-label classification (MvMLC) has recently garnered significant research attention due to its wide range of real-world applications. However, incompleteness in views and labels is a common challenge, often resulting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wulin Xie , Lian Zhao , Jiang Long , Xiaohuan Lu , Bingyan Nie

This work investigates the use of class-level difficulty factors in multi-label classification problems for the first time. Four class-level difficulty factors are proposed: frequency, visual variation, semantic abstraction, and class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Mark Marsden , Kevin McGuinness , Joseph Antony , Haolin Wei , Milan Redzic , Jian Tang , Zhilan Hu , Alan Smeaton , Noel E O'Connor

Multi-label classification (MLC) problems are becoming increasingly popular in the context of medical imaging. This has in part been driven by the fact that acquiring annotations for MLC is far less burdensome than for semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Thomas Kurmann , Pablo Marquez Neila , Sebastian Wolf , Raphael Sznitman

Multi-label classification (MLC) faces challenges from label noise in training data due to annotating diverse semantic labels for each image. Current methods mainly target identifying and correcting label mistakes using trained MLC models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zhixiang Yuan , Kaixin Zhang , Tao Huang

The label-free model evaluation aims to predict the model performance on various test sets without relying on ground truths. The main challenge of this task is the absence of labels in the test data, unlike in classical supervised model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Shuyu Miao , Lin Zheng , Jingjing Liu , and Hong Jin

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

Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) is an important task in data engineering. However, most UFS methods construct models from a single perspective and often fail to simultaneously evaluate feature importance and preserve their inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jingjing Liu , Xiansen Ju , Xianchao Xiu , Wanquan Liu

Multi-label classification (MLC) of medical images aims to identify multiple diseases and holds significant clinical potential. A critical step is to learn class-specific features for accurate diagnosis and improved interpretability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaoxiao Cui , Yiran Li , Kai He , Shanzhi Jiang , Mengli Xue , Wentao Li , Junhong Leng , Zhi Liu , Lizhen Cui , Shuo Li

Feature selection is a crucial step in large-scale industrial machine learning systems, directly affecting model accuracy, efficiency, and maintainability. Traditional feature selection methods rely on labeled data and statistical…