Label Enhancement for Label Distribution Learning

Label Enhancement for Label Distribution Learning

Ning Xu, An Tao, Xin Geng

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 2926-2932. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/406

Label distribution is more general than both single-label annotation and multi-label annotation. It covers a certain number of labels, representing the degree to which each label describes the instance. The learning process on the instances labeled by label distributions is called label distribution learning (LDL). Unfortunately, many training sets only contain simple logical labels rather than label distributions due to the difficulty of obtaining the label distributions directly.  To solve the problem, one way is to recover the label distributions from the logical labels in the training set via leveraging the topological information of the feature space and the correlation among the labels. Such process of recovering label distributions from logical labels is defined as label enhancement (LE), which reinforces the supervision information in the training sets. This paper proposes a novel LE algorithm called Graph Laplacian Label Enhancement (GLLE). Experimental results on one artificial dataset and fourteen real-world datasets show clear advantages of GLLE over several existing LE algorithms.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Machine Learning
Machine Learning: Multi-instance;Multi-label;Multi-view learning