Title
Partial multi-label learning based on sparse asymmetric label correlations
Abstract
In many real-world applications, an instance from the training dataset of multi-label learning (MLL) often has some irrelevant labels. Traditional MLL and partial label learning (PLL) cannot deal with this problem very well. This has given rise to partial multi-label learning (PML). In this setting, it is very challenging to distinguish between the ground-truth labels and noisy labels. Most of the existing PML methods focus on identifying the ground-truth labels using label correlations, while they ignore the fact that the real label correlations often have been corrupted due to the noisy labels. Moreover, the existing PML methods usually consider the label correlations to be symmetric. However, in real-world applications, the label correlations are asymmetric. To address the above problems, we present partial multi-label learning based on sparse asymmetric label correlations (PML-SALC). PML-SALC integrates asymmetric label correlation learning and multi-label classifier learning into a unified framework. It utilizes the sparse asymmetric label correlation matrix to alleviate the negative influence of noisy labels to obtain label confidence. Moreover, PML-SALC models the relationship between the feature and label confidence, which makes the model smoother and more robust. The extensive experimental results show that the PML-SALC achieves state-of-the-art performance, which validates the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108601
Knowledge-Based Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Partial multi-label learning,Label confidence,Sparse asymmetric label correlations
Journal
245
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0950-7051
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peng Zhao133.42
Shiyi Zhao200.68
Xuyang Zhao300.34
Huiting Liu465.17
Xia Ji500.34