Self-paced multi-label co-training

Yanlu Gong, Quanwang Wu, Mengchu Zhou, Junhao Wen

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Abstract

Multi-label learning aims to solve classification problems where instances are associated with a set of labels. In reality, it is generally easy to acquire unlabeled data but expensive or time-consuming to label them, and this situation becomes more serious in multi-label learning as an instance needs to be annotated with several labels. Hence, semi-supervised multi-label learning approaches emerge as they are able to exploit unlabeled data to help train predictive models. This work proposes a novel approach called Self-paced Multi-label Co-Training (SMCT). It leverages the well-known co-training paradigm to iteratively train two classifiers on two views of a dataset and communicate one classifier's predictions on unlabeled data to augment the other's training set. As pseudo labels may be false in iterative training, self-paced learning is integrated into SMCT to rectify false pseudo labels and avoid error accumulation. Concretely, the multi-label co-training model in SMCT is formulated as an optimization problem by introducing latent weight variables of unlabeled instances. It is then solved via an alternative convex optimization algorithm. Experimental evaluations are carried out based on six benchmark multi-label datasets and three metrics. The results demonstrate that SMCT is very competitive in each setting when compared with five state-of-the-art methods.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)269-281
Number of pages13
JournalInformation sciences
Volume622
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2023

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

Keywords

  • Co-training
  • Label rectification
  • Multi-label classification
  • Self-paced learning
  • Semi-supervised learning

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