Acknowledging the Unknown for Multi-label Learning with Single Positive Labels

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16219v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 11:43:59 GMT
• Title: Acknowledging the Unknown for Multi-label Learning with Single Positive Labels
• Authors: Donghao Zhou, Pengfei Chen, Qiong Wang, Guangyong Chen, Pheng-Ann Heng
• Abstract summary: Traditionally, all unannotated labels are assumed as negative labels in single positive multi-label learning (SPML) We propose entropy-maximization (EM) loss to maximize the entropy of predicted probabilities for all unannotated labels. Considering the positive-negative label imbalance of unannotated labels, we propose asymmetric pseudo-labeling (APL) with asymmetric-tolerance strategies and a self-paced procedure to provide more precise supervision.
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• Abstract: Due to the difficulty of collecting exhaustive multi-label annotations, multi-label training data often contains partial labels. We consider an extreme of this problem, called single positive multi-label learning (SPML), where each multi-label training image has only one positive label. Traditionally, all unannotated labels are assumed as negative labels in SPML, which would introduce false negative labels and make model training be dominated by assumed negative labels. In this work, we choose to treat all unannotated labels from a different perspective, \textit{i.e.} acknowledging they are unknown. Hence, we propose entropy-maximization (EM) loss to maximize the entropy of predicted probabilities for all unannotated labels. Considering the positive-negative label imbalance of unannotated labels, we propose asymmetric pseudo-labeling (APL) with asymmetric-tolerance strategies and a self-paced procedure to provide more precise supervision. Experiments show that our method significantly improves performance and achieves state-of-the-art results on all four benchmarks.

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