Title
Multi-instance transfer metric learning by weighted distribution and consistent maximum likelihood estimation.
Abstract
Multi-Instance learning (MIL) aims to predict labels of unlabeled bags by training a model with labeled bags. The usual assumption of existing MIL methods is that the underlying distribution of training data is the same as that of the testing data. However, this assumption may not be valid in practice, especially when training data from a source domain and testing data from a target domain are drawn from different distributions. In this paper, we put forward a novel algorithm Multi-Instance Transfer Metric Learning (MITML). Specially, MITML first attempts to bridge the distributions of different domains by using the bag weighting method. Then a consistent maximum likelihood estimation method is learned to construct an optimal distance metric and exploited to classify testing bags. Comprehensive experimental results on benchmark datasets have demonstrated that the learning performance of the proposed MITML algorithm is better than those of other state-of-the-art MIL algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.neucom.2018.09.004
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-instance learning,Transfer learning,Metric learning,Bag weights estimation,Consistent maximum likelihood estimation
Training set,Weighting,Pattern recognition,Metric (mathematics),Maximum likelihood,Test data,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
321
0925-2312
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
31
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Siyu Jiang142.41
Yong-Hui Xu2337.31
Hengjie Song3465.33
Wu Qingyao425933.46
Ng Michael54231311.70
Huaqing Min624336.37
Shaojian Qiu783.80