Pseudo-Label Reconstruction for Partial Multi-Label Learning
Pseudo-Label Reconstruction for Partial Multi-Label Learning
Yu Chen, Fang Li, Na Han, Guanbin Li, Hongbo Gao, Sixian Chan, Xiaozhao Fang
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 4896-4904.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/545
In Partial Multi-Label Learning (PML), each instance is associated with a candidate label set containing multiple relevant labels along with other false positive labels. Currently, most PML methods directly extract instance correlation from instance features while ignoring the candidate labels, which may contain more discriminative instance-related information. This paper argues that, with a well-designed model, more accurate instance correlation can be mined from the candidate labels to facilitate label disambiguation. To this end, we propose a novel PML method based on pseudo-label reconstruction (PML-PLR). Specifically, we first propose a novel orthogonal candidate label reconstruction method, which jointly optimizes with instance features to extract more consistent instance correlation. Then, we use instance correlation as reconstruction coefficient to reconstruct pseudo-labels. Subsequently, through local manifold learning, the reconstructed pseudo-labels are leveraged to propagate the consistency relationship between labels and instances, thereby improving the accuracy of pseudo-labels. Extensive experiments and analyses demonstrate that the proposed PML-PLR outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: ML: Multi-label learning
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization: CSO: Constraint optimization problems
Machine Learning: ML: Optimization
Machine Learning: ML: Regression
