Incomplete Label Distribution Learning

Incomplete Label Distribution Learning

Miao Xu, Zhi-Hua Zhou

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 3175-3181. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/443

Label distribution learning (LDL) assumes labels can be associated to an instance to some degree, thus it can learn the relevance of a label to a particular instance. Although LDL has got successful practical applications, one problem with existing LDL methods is that they are designed for data with \emph{complete} supervised information, while in reality, annotation information may be \emph{incomplete}, because assigning each label a real value to indicate its association with a particular instance will result in large cost in labor and time. In this paper, we will solve LDL problem when given \emph{incomplete} supervised information. We propose an objective based on trace norm minimization to exploit the correlation between labels. We develop a proximal gradient descend algorithm and an algorithm based on alternating direction method of multipliers. Experiments validate the effectiveness of our proposal.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Machine Learning
Machine Learning: Multi-instance/Multi-label/Multi-view learning