一种启发式多标记分类器选择与排序策略

在多标记分类问题当中,多标记分类器的目的是为实例预测一个与其关联的标记集合。典型方法之一是将多标记分类问题转化为多个二类分类问题,这些二类分类器之间可以存在一定的关系。简单地考虑标记间依赖关系可以在一定程度上改善分类性能,但同时计算复杂度也是必须考虑的问题。该文提出了一种利用多标记间依赖关系的有序分类器集合算法,该算法通过启发式的搜索策略寻找分类器之间的某种次序,这种次序可以更好地反映标记间的依赖关系。在实验中,该文选取了来自不同领域的数据集和多个评价指标,实验结果表明该文所提出的算法比一般多标记分类算法具有更好的分类性能。     

基于标记与特征依赖最大化的弱标记集成分类

弱标记学习是多标记学习的一个重要分支,近几年已被广泛研究并被应用于多标记样本的缺失标记补全和预测等问题.然而,针对特征集合较大、更容易拥有多个语义标记和出现标记缺失的高维数据问题,现有弱标记学习方法普遍易受这类数据包含的噪声和冗余特征的干扰.为了对高维多标记数据进行准确的分类,提出了一种基于标记与特征依赖最大化的弱标记集成分类方法EnWL.EnWL首先在高维数据的特征空间多次利用近邻传播聚类方法,每次选择聚类中心构成具有代表性的特征子集,降低噪声和冗余特征的干扰;再在每个特征子集上训练一个基于标记与特征依赖最大化的半监督多标记分类器;最后,通过投票集成这些分类器实现多标记分类.在多种高维数据集上的实验结果表明,EnWL在多种评价度量上的预测性能均优于已有相关方法.     

Compressed labeling on distilled labelsets for multi-label learning

Directly applying single-label classification methods to the multi-label learning problems substantially limits both the performance and speed due to the imbalance, dependence and high dimensionality of the given label matrix. Existing methods either ignore these three problems or reduce one with the price of aggravating another. In this paper, we propose a {0,1} label matrix compression and recovery method termed ??compressed labeling (CL)?? to simultaneously solve or at least reduce these three problems. CL first compresses the original label matrix to improve balance and independence by preserving the signs of its Gaussian random projections. Afterward, we directly utilize popular binary classification methods (e.g., support vector machines) for each new label. A fast recovery algorithm is developed to recover the original labels from the predicted new labels. In the recovery algorithm, a ??labelset distilling method?? is designed to extract distilled labelsets (DLs), i.e., the frequently appeared label subsets from the original labels via recursive clustering and subtraction. Given a distilled and an original label vector, we discover that the signs of their random projections have an explicit joint distribution that can be quickly computed from a geometric inference. Based on this observation, the original label vector is exactly determined after performing a series of Kullback-Leibler divergence based hypothesis tests on the distribution about the new labels. CL significantly improves the balance of?the training samples and reduces the dependence between different labels. Moreover, it accelerates the learning process by training fewer binary classifiers for compressed labels, and makes use of label dependence via DLs based tests. Theoretically, we prove the recovery bounds of CL which verifies the effectiveness of CL for label compression and multi-label classification performance improvement brought by label correlations preserved in DLs. We show the effectiveness, efficiency and robustness of CL via 5 groups of experiments on 21 datasets from text classification, image annotation, scene classification, music categorization, genomics and web page classification.     

Enhancing multi-label classification by modeling dependencies among labels

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for multi-label classification, which directly models the dependencies among labels using a Bayesian network. Each node of the Bayesian network represents a label, and the links and conditional probabilities capture the probabilistic dependencies among multiple labels. We employ our Bayesian network structure learning method, which guarantees to find the global optimum structure, independent of the initial structure. After structure learning, maximum likelihood estimation is used to learn the conditional probabilities among nodes. Any current multi-label classifier can be employed to obtain the measurements of labels. Then, using the learned Bayesian network, the true labels are inferred by combining the relationship among labels with the labels? estimates obtained from a current multi-labeling method. We further extend the proposed multi-label classification method to deal with incomplete label assignments. Structural Expectation-Maximization algorithm is adopted for both structure and parameter learning. Experimental results on two benchmark multi-label databases show that our approach can effectively capture the co-occurrent and the mutual exclusive relation among labels. The relation modeled by our approach is more flexible than the pairwise or fixed subset labels captured by current multi-label learning methods. Thus, our approach improves the performance over current multi-label classifiers. Furthermore, our approach demonstrates its robustness to incomplete multi-label classification.     

Binary relevance for multi-label learning: an overview

Multi-label learning deals with problems where each example is represented by a single instance while being associated with multiple class labels simultaneously. Binary relevance is arguably the most intuitive solution for learning from multi-label examples. It works by decomposing the multi-label learning task into a number of independent binary learning tasks (one per class label). In view of its potential weakness in ignoring correlations between labels, many correlation-enabling extensions to binary relevance have been proposed in the past decade. In this paper, we aim to review the state of the art of binary relevance from three perspectives. First, basic settings for multi-label learning and binary relevance solutions are briefly summarized. Second, representative strategies to provide binary relevancewith label correlation exploitation abilities are discussed. Third, some of our recent studies on binary relevance aimed at issues other than label correlation exploitation are introduced. As a conclusion, we provide suggestions on future research directions.     

An evolutionary approach to build ensembles of multi-label classifiers

In recent years, the multi-label classification task has gained the attention of the scientific community given its ability to solve problems where each of the instances of the dataset may be associated with several class labels at the same time instead of just one. The main problems to deal with in multi-label classification are the imbalance, the relationships among the labels, and the high complexity of the output space. A large number of methods for multi-label classification has been proposed, but although they aimed to deal with one or many of these problems, most of them did not take into account these characteristics of the data in their building phase. In this paper we present an evolutionary algorithm for automatic generation of ensembles of multi-label classifiers by tackling the three previously mentioned problems, called Evolutionary Multi-label Ensemble (EME). Each multi-label classifier is focused on a small subset of the labels, still considering the relationships among them but avoiding the high complexity of the output space. Further, the algorithm automatically designs the ensemble evaluating both its predictive performance and the number of times that each label appears in the ensemble, so that in imbalanced datasets infrequent labels are not ignored. For this purpose, we also proposed a novel mutation operator that considers the relationship among labels, looking for individuals where the labels are more related. EME was compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms for multi-label classification over a set of fourteen multi-label datasets and using five evaluation measures. The experimental study was carried out in two parts, first comparing EME to classic multi-label classification methods, and second comparing EME to other ensemble-based methods in multi-label classification. EME performed significantly better than the rest of classic methods in three out of five evaluation measures. On the other hand, EME performed the best in one measure in the second experiment and it was the only one that did not perform significantly worse than the control algorithm in any measure. These results showed that EME achieved a better and more consistent performance than the rest of the state-of-the-art methods in MLC.     

Clustered intrinsic label correlations for multi-label classification

Currently a consensus on multi-label classification is to exploit label correlations for performance improvement. Many approaches build one classifier for each label based on the one-versus-all strategy, and integrate classifiers by enforcing a regularization term on the global weights to exploit label correlations. However, this strategy might be suboptimal since it may be only part of the global weights that support the assumption. This paper proposes clustered intrinsic label correlations for multi-label classification (CILC), which extends traditional support vector machine to the multi-label setting. The predictive function of each classifier consists of two components: one component is the common information among all labels, and the other component is a label-specific one which highly depends on the corresponding label. The label-specific one representing the intrinsic label correlations is regularized by clustered structure assumption. The appealing features of the proposed method are that it separates the common information and the label-specific information of the labels and utilizes clustered structures among labels represented by the label-specific parts. The practical multi-label classification problems can be directly solved by the proposed CILC method, such as text categorization, image annotation and sentiment analysis. Experiments across five data sets validate the effectiveness of CILC, compared with six well-established multi-label classification algorithms.     

Statistical topic models for multi-label document classification

Machine learning approaches to multi-label document classification have to date largely relied on discriminative modeling techniques such as support vector machines. A?drawback of these approaches is that performance rapidly drops off as the total number of labels and the number of labels per document increase. This problem is amplified when the label frequencies exhibit the type of highly skewed distributions that are often observed in real-world datasets. In this paper we investigate a class of generative statistical topic models for multi-label documents that associate individual word tokens with different labels. We investigate the advantages of this approach relative to discriminative models, particularly with respect to classification problems involving large numbers of relatively rare labels. We compare the performance of generative and discriminative approaches on document labeling tasks ranging from datasets with several thousand labels to datasets with tens of labels. The experimental results indicate that probabilistic generative models can achieve competitive multi-label classification performance compared to discriminative methods, and have advantages for datasets with many labels and skewed label frequencies.     

基于Tri-training的半监督多标记学习算法

传统的多标记学习是监督意义下的学习,它要求获得完整的类别标记.但是当数据规模较大且类别数目较多时,获得完整类别标记的训练样本集是非常困难的.因而,在半监督协同训练思想的框架下,提出了基于Tri-training的半监督多标记学习算法（SMLT）.在学习阶段,SMLT引入一个虚拟类标记,然后针对每一对类别标记,利用协同训练机制Tri-training算法训练得到对应的分类器;在预测阶段,给定一个新的样本,将其代入上述所得的分类器中,根据类别标记得票数的多少将多标记学习问题转化为标记排序问题,并将虚拟类标记的得票数作为阈值对标记排序结果进行划分.在UCI中4个常用的多标记数据集上的对比实验表明,SMLT算法在4个评价指标上的性能大多优于其他对比算法,验证了该算法的有效性.     

ML-KNN: A lazy learning approach to multi-label learning

Multi-label learning originated from the investigation of text categorization problem, where each document may belong to several predefined topics simultaneously. In multi-label learning, the training set is composed of instances each associated with a set of labels, and the task is to predict the label sets of unseen instances through analyzing training instances with known label sets. In this paper, a multi-label lazy learning approach named ML-KNN is presented, which is derived from the traditional K-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm. In detail, for each unseen instance, its K nearest neighbors in the training set are firstly identified. After that, based on statistical information gained from the label sets of these neighboring instances, i.e. the number of neighboring instances belonging to each possible class, maximum a posteriori (MAP) principle is utilized to determine the label set for the unseen instance. Experiments on three different real-world multi-label learning problems, i.e. Yeast gene functional analysis, natural scene classification and automatic web page categorization, show that ML-KNN achieves superior performance to some well-established multi-label learning algorithms.     

多标记数据特征提取方法的核改进

针对多标记数据特征提取方法中输出核函数没有准确刻画标记间的相关性的问题,在充分度量标记间相关性的基础上,提出了两种新的输出核函数构造方法。第一种方法首先将多标记数据转化为单标记数据,并使用标记集合来刻画标记间的相关性;然后从损失函数的角度出发定义新的输出核函数。第二种方法是利用互信息来度量标记间的两两相关性,在此基础上进一步构造新的输出核函数。3个多标记数据集上2种分类器的实验结果表明,与原有核函数对应的多标记特征提取方法相比,基于损失函数的输出核函数对应的特征提取方法性能最好,5个评价指标的性能平均提高了10%左右, 尤其在Yeast数据集上,Coverage指标下降幅度达到了30%左右;基于互信息的输出核函数次之,性能平均提高了5%左右。实验结果表明,基于新的输出核函数的特征提取方法能够更加有效地提取特征,并进一步简化分类器的学习过程,提高分类器的泛化性能。     

Incremental Multi-Label Learning with Active Queries

In multi-label learning,it is rather expensive to label instances since they are simultaneously associated with multiple labels.Therefore,active learning,which reduces the labeling cost by actively querying the labels of the most valuable data,becomes particularly important for multi-label learning.A good multi-label active learning algorithm usually consists of two crucial elements:a reasonable criterion to evaluate the gain of querying the label for an instance,and an effective classification model,based on whose prediction the criterion can be accurately computed.In this paper,we first introduce an effective multi-label classification model by combining label ranking with threshold learning,which is incrementally trained to avoid retraining from scratch after every query.Based on this model,we then propose to exploit both uncertainty and diversity in the instance space as well as the label space,and actively query the instance-label pairs which can improve the classification model most.Extensive experiments on 20 datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approach to state-of-the-art methods.     

融合标签关系的法律文本多标签分类方法

随着大数据技术的快速发展,多标签文本分类在司法领域也催生出诸多应用.在法律文本中通常存在多个要素标签,标签之间往往具有相互依赖性或相关性,准确识别这些标签需要多标签分类方法的支持.因此,文中提出融合标签关系的法律文本多标签分类方法.方法构建标签的共现矩阵,利用图卷积网络捕捉标签之间的依赖关系,并结合标签注意力机制,计算法律文本和标签每个词的相关程度,得到特定标签的法律文本语义表示.最后,融合标签图构建的依赖关系和特定标签的法律文本语义表示,对文本进行综合表示,实现文本的多标签分类.在法律数据集上的实验表明,文中方法获得较好的分类精度和稳定性.     

Bayesian multi-instance multi-label learning using Gaussian process prior

Multi-instance multi-label learning (MIML) is a newly proposed framework, in which the multi-label problems are investigated by representing each sample with multiple feature vectors named instances. In this framework, the multi-label learning task becomes to learn a many-to-many relationship, and it also offers a possibility for explaining why a concerned sample has the certain class labels. The connections between instances and labels as well as the correlations among labels are equally crucial information for MIML. However, the existing MIML algorithms can rarely exploit them simultaneously. In this paper, a new MIML algorithm is proposed based on Gaussian process. The basic idea is to suppose a latent function with Gaussian process prior in the instance space for each label and infer the predictive probability of labels by integrating over uncertainties in these functions using the Bayesian approach, so that the connection between instances and every label can be exploited by defining a likelihood function and the correlations among labels can be identified by the covariance matrix of the latent functions. Moreover, since different relationships between instances and labels can be captured by defining different likelihood functions, the algorithm may be used to deal with the problems with various multi-instance assumptions. Experimental results on several benchmark data sets show that the proposed algorithm is valid and can achieve superior performance to the existing ones.     

基于负相关性增强的不平衡多标签学习算法

由于标签空间过大,标签分布不平衡问题在多标签数据集中广泛存在,解决该问题在一定程度上可以提高多标签学习的分类性能。通过标签相关性提升分类性能是解决该问题的一种最常见的有效策略,众多学者进行了大量研究,然而这些研究更多地是采用基于正相关性策略提升性能。在实际问题中,除了正相关性外,标签的负相关性也可能存在,如果在考虑正相关性的同时,兼顾负相关性,无疑能够进一步改善分类器的性能。基于此,提出了一种基于负相关性增强的不平衡多标签学习算法——MLNCE,旨在解决多标签不平衡问题的同时,兼顾标签间的正负相关性,从而提高多标签分类器的分类性能。首先利用标签密度信息改造标签空间;然后在密度标签空间中探究标签真实的正反相关性信息,并添加到分类器目标函数中;最后利用加速梯度下降法求解输出权重以得到预测结果。在11个多标签标准数据集上与其他6种多标签学习算法进行对比实验,结果表明MLNCE算法可以有效提高分类精度。     

一种基于树型贝叶斯网络的集成多标记分类算法

在多标记分类问题中,有效地利用标记间的依赖关系是进一步提升分类器性能的主要途径之一。基于分类器链算法,利用互信息度量理论构造分类对象的类属性之间明确的多标记关系依赖模型,并依据建立的标记依赖模型将分类器链中的线性依赖拓展成树型依赖,以适应更为复杂的标记依赖关系;同时,在此基础上利用Stacking集成学习方法建立最终训练模型,提出了一种新的针对树型依赖表示模型的Stacking算法。 在多个实验数据集上的实验结果表明,与原有的Stacking集成学习相比,该算法提升了分类器的相应评价指标。     

基于图卷积网络的多标签遥感图像分类

由于遥感图像包含物体类别多样,单个语义类别标签无法全面地描述图像内容,而多标签图像分类任务更加具有挑战性.通过探索深度图卷积网络(GCN),解决了多标签遥感图像分类缺乏对标签语义信息相关性利用的问题,提出了一种新的基于图卷积的多标签遥感图像分类网络,它包含图像特征学习模块、基于图卷积网络的分类器学习模块和图像特征差异化模块三个部分.在公开多标签遥感数据集Planet和UCM上与相关模型进行对比,在多标签遥感图像分类任务上可以得到了较好的分类结果.该方法使用图卷积等模块将多标签图像分类方法应用到遥感领域,提高了模型分类能力,缩短了模型训练时间.     

Applying semi-supervised learning in hierarchical multi-label classification

In classification problems with hierarchical structures of labels, the target function must assign labels that are hierarchically organized and it can be used either for single-label (one label per instance) or multi-label classification problems (more than one label per instance). In parallel to these developments, the idea of semi-supervised learning has emerged as a solution to the problems found in a standard supervised learning procedure (used in most classification algorithms). It combines labelled and unlabelled data during the training phase. Some semi-supervised methods have been proposed for single-label classification methods. However, very little effort has been done in the context of multi-label hierarchical classification. Therefore, this paper proposes a new method for supervised hierarchical multi-label classification, called HMC-RAkEL. Additionally, we propose the use of semi-supervised learning, self-training, in hierarchical multi-label classification, leading to three new methods, called HMC-SSBR, HMC-SSLP and HMC-SSRAkEL. In order to validate the feasibility of these methods, an empirical analysis will be conducted, comparing the proposed methods with their corresponding supervised versions. The main aim of this analysis is to observe whether the semi-supervised methods proposed in this paper have similar performance of the corresponding supervised versions.     

基于非负矩阵分解与稀疏表示的多标签分类算法

传统的多标签分类算法是以二值标签预测为基础的,而二值标签由于仅能指示数据是否具有相关类别,所含语义信息较少,无法充分表示标签语义信息。为充分挖掘标签空间的语义信息,提出了一种基于非负矩阵分解和稀疏表示的多标签分类算法（MLNS）。该算法结合非负矩阵分解与稀疏表示技术,将数据的二值标签转化为实值标签,从而丰富标签语义信息并提升分类效果。首先,对标签空间进行非负矩阵分解以获得标签潜在语义空间,并将标签潜在语义空间与原始特征空间结合以形成新的特征空间;然后,对此特征空间进行稀疏编码来获得样本间的全局相似关系;最后,利用该相似关系重构二值标签向量,从而实现二值标签与实值标签的转化。在5个标准多标签数据集和5个评价指标上将所提算法与MLBGM、ML²、LIFT和MLRWKNN等算法进行对比。实验结果表明,所提MLNS在多标签分类中优于对比的多标签分类算法,在50%的案例中排名第一,在76%的案例中排名前二,在全部的案例中排名前三。     

特征特定标记关联挖掘的类属属性学习

在多标记分类中,某个标记可能只由其自身的某些特有属性决定,这些特定属性称之为类属属性利用类属属性进行多标记分类,可以有效避免某些无用特征影响构建分类模型的性能然而类属属性算法仅从标记角度去提取重要特征,而忽略了从特征角度去提取重要标记事实上,如果能从特征角度提前关注某些标记,更容易获取这些标记的特有属性基于此,提出了一...