Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification is a complex classification problem where the classes are hierarchically structured. This task is very common in protein function prediction, where each protein can have more than one function, which in turn can have more than one sub-function. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical multi-label classification algorithm for protein function predict...

In multi-label learning, each training example is associated with a set of labels and the task is to predict the proper label set for each unseen instance. The widely known binary relevance method (BR) for multi-label classification considers each label as an independent binary problem. It is ignored in the literature due to inadequacy of not considering label correlations. In this paper, we pr...

Multi-Instance Multi-Label learning (MIML) deals with data objects that are represented by a bag of instances and associated with a set of class labels simultaneously. Previous studies typically assume that for every training example, all positive labels are tagged whereas the untagged labels are all negative. In many real applications such as image annotation, however, the learning problem oft...

The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) is used to collect voluntarily submitted aviation safety reports from pilots, controllers and others. As such it is particularly useful in researching aviation safety deficiencies. In this paper we address two challenges related to the analysis of ASRS data: (1) the unsupervised extraction of meaningful and interpretable topics from ASRS reports and (...

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 ...

Multi-label classification is a generalization of binary classification where the task consists in predicting sets of labels. With the availability of ever larger datasets, the multi-label setting has become a natural one in many applications, and the interest in solving multi-label problems has grown significantly. As expected, deep learning approaches are now yielding state-of-the-art perform...

Multi-output inference tasks, such as multi-label classification, have become increasingly important in recent years. A popular method for multi-label classification is classifier chains, in which the predictions of individual classifiers are cascaded along a chain, thus taking into account inter-label dependencies and improving the overall performance. Several varieties of classifier chain met...

The benefit of exploiting label dependence in multi-label classification is known to be closely dependent on the type of loss to be minimized. In this paper, we show that the subsets of labels that appear as irreducible factors in the factorization of the conditional distribution of the label set given the input features play a pivotal role for multi-label classification in the context of 0/1 l...

Image and video annotations are challenging but important tasks to understand digital multimedia contents in computer vision, which by nature is a multi-label multi-class classification problem because every image is usually associated with more than one semantic keyword. As a result, label assignments are no longer confined to class membership indications as in traditional single-label multi-c...