Label Enhancement by Maintaining Positive and Negative Label Relation

Abstract

Label distribution learning (LDL) is a novel machine learning paradigm that gives a description degree of each label to a particular instance. But many existing datasets contain only simple logical labels, since it is difficult and time-consuming to directly obtain the label distribution. So label enhancement (LE) is proposed to convert multi-label datasets consisting of logical labels into label distribution datasets. In recently, many LE algorithms have been proposed and most of them concentrate on the fitting degree, but ignore the ordering relation between positive and negative labels. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an LE algorithm based on maintaining positive and negative label relation, which contains a novel ranking loss that can generate different penalties according to different ranking errors. Our algorithm achieves a good balance between the degree of fitting and the ordering relation. The experimental results on several real-world datasets validate the effectiveness of our method.