Positive Label Is All You Need for Multi-Label Classification

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Main Authors: Yuan, Zhixiang, Zhang, Kaixin, Huang, Tao
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author Yuan, Zhixiang
Zhang, Kaixin
Huang, Tao
author_facet Yuan, Zhixiang
Zhang, Kaixin
Huang, Tao
contents Multi-label classification (MLC) faces challenges from label noise in training data due to annotating diverse semantic labels for each image. Current methods mainly target identifying and correcting label mistakes using trained MLC models, but still struggle with persistent noisy labels during training, resulting in imprecise recognition and reduced performance. Our paper addresses label noise in MLC by introducing a positive and unlabeled multi-label classification (PU-MLC) method. To counteract noisy labels, we directly discard negative labels, focusing on the abundance of negative labels and the origin of most noisy labels. PU-MLC employs positive-unlabeled learning, training the model with only positive labels and unlabeled data. The method incorporates adaptive re-balance factors and temperature coefficients in the loss function to address label distribution imbalance and prevent over-smoothing of probabilities during training. Additionally, we introduce a local-global convolution module to capture both local and global dependencies in the image without requiring backbone retraining. PU-MLC proves effective on MLC and MLC with partial labels (MLC-PL) tasks, demonstrating significant improvements on MS-COCO and PASCAL VOC datasets with fewer annotations. Code is available at: https://github.com/TAKELAMAG/PU-MLC.
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Yuan, Zhixiang
Zhang, Kaixin
Huang, Tao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multi-label classification (MLC) faces challenges from label noise in training data due to annotating diverse semantic labels for each image. Current methods mainly target identifying and correcting label mistakes using trained MLC models, but still struggle with persistent noisy labels during training, resulting in imprecise recognition and reduced performance. Our paper addresses label noise in MLC by introducing a positive and unlabeled multi-label classification (PU-MLC) method. To counteract noisy labels, we directly discard negative labels, focusing on the abundance of negative labels and the origin of most noisy labels. PU-MLC employs positive-unlabeled learning, training the model with only positive labels and unlabeled data. The method incorporates adaptive re-balance factors and temperature coefficients in the loss function to address label distribution imbalance and prevent over-smoothing of probabilities during training. Additionally, we introduce a local-global convolution module to capture both local and global dependencies in the image without requiring backbone retraining. PU-MLC proves effective on MLC and MLC with partial labels (MLC-PL) tasks, demonstrating significant improvements on MS-COCO and PASCAL VOC datasets with fewer annotations. Code is available at: https://github.com/TAKELAMAG/PU-MLC.
title Positive Label Is All You Need for Multi-Label Classification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16016