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Multi-label classification aims to assign a set of proper labels for each instance, where distance metric learning can help improve the generalization ability of instance-based multi-label classification models. Existing multi-label metric learning techniques work by utilizing pairwise constraints to enforce that examples with similar label assignments should have close distance in the embedded feature space. In this paper, a novel distance metric learning approach for multi-label classification is proposed by modeling structural interactions between instance space and label space. On one hand, compositional distance metric is employed which adopts the representation of a weighted sum of rank-1 PSD matrices based on component bases. On the other hand, compositional weights are optimized by exploiting triplet similarity constraints derived from both instance and label spaces. Due to the compositional nature of employed distance metric, the resulting problem admits quadratic programming formulation with linear optimization complexity w.r.t. the number of training examples. We also derive the generalization bound for the proposed approach based on algorithmic robustness analysis of the compositional metric. Extensive experiments on sixteen benchmark data sets clearly validate the usefulness of compositional metric in yielding effective distance metric for multi-label classification.
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Yan-Ping Sun received the BSc degree in computer science from Jiangnan University, China, the MSc degree in computer Science from Southeast University, China in 2016 and 2019 respectively. Currently, she is an Algorithm Engineer at the AI platform of JD Intelligent City Business Department. Her main research interests include machine learning and data mining, especially in learning from multi-label data.
Min-Ling Zhang received the BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in computer science from Nanjing University, China in 2001, 2004 and 2007, respectively. Currently, he is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China. His main research interests include machine learning and data mining. In recent years, Dr. Zhang has served as the General Co-Chairs of ACML’18, Program Co-Chairs of PAKDD’19, CCF-ICAI’19, ACML’17, CCFAI’17, PRICAI’16, Senior PC member or Area Chair of AAAI 2017–2020, IJCAI 2017–2020, ICDM 2015–2019, etc. He is also on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Neural Networks, Frontiers of Computer Science, Science China Information Sciences, etc. Dr. Zhang is the Steering Committee Member of ACML and PAKDD, secretary-general of the CAAI Machine Learning Society, standing committee member of the CCF Artificial Intelligence & Pattern Recognition Society.
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Sun, YP., Zhang, ML. Compositional metric learning for multi-label classification. Front. Comput. Sci. 15, 155320 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-020-9294-7
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