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Constrained Instance Clustering in Multi-Instance Multi-Label Learning

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Title Constrained Instance Clustering in Multi-Instance Multi-Label Learning
Names Pei, Yuanli (creator)
Fern, Xiaoli Z. (creator)
Date Issued 2014-02 (iso8601)
Note This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Elsevier and can be found at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pattern-recognition-letters/.
Abstract In multi-instance multi-label (MIML) learning, datasets are given in the form of bags, each of which contains multiple instances
and is associated with multiple labels. This paper considers a novel instance clustering problem in MIML learning, where the
bag labels are used as background knowledge to help group instances into clusters. The goal is to recover the class labels or to
find the subclasses within each class. Prior work on constraint-based clustering focuses on pairwise constraints and can not fully
utilize the bag-level label information. We propose to encode the bag-label knowledge into soft bag constraints that can be easily
incorporated into any optimization based clustering algorithm. As a specific example, we demonstrate how the bag constraints can
be incorporated into a popular spectral clustering algorithm. Empirical results on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that
the proposed method achieves promising performance compared to state-of-the-art methods that use pairwise constraints.
Genre Article
Topic MIML
Identifier Pei, Y., & Fern, X. Z. (2014). Constrained instance clustering in multi-instance multi-label learning. Pattern Recognition Letters, 37, 107-114. doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2013.07.002

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