Revisiting Sparsity Constraint Under High-Rank Property in Partial Multi-Label Learning

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Main Authors: Si, Chongjie, Cui, Yidan, Yang, Fuchao, Yang, Xiaokang, Shen, Wei
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Published: 2025
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author Si, Chongjie
Cui, Yidan
Yang, Fuchao
Yang, Xiaokang
Shen, Wei
author_facet Si, Chongjie
Cui, Yidan
Yang, Fuchao
Yang, Xiaokang
Shen, Wei
contents Partial Multi-Label Learning (PML) extends the multi-label learning paradigm to scenarios where each sample is associated with a candidate label set containing both ground-truth labels and noisy labels. Existing PML methods commonly rely on two assumptions: sparsity of the noise label matrix and low-rankness of the ground-truth label matrix. However, these assumptions are inherently conflicting and impractical for real-world scenarios, where the true label matrix is typically full-rank or close to full-rank. To address these limitations, we demonstrate that the sparsity constraint contributes to the high-rank property of the predicted label matrix. Based on this, we propose a novel method Schirn, which introduces a sparsity constraint on the noise label matrix while enforcing a high-rank property on the predicted label matrix. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of Schirn compared to state-of-the-art methods, validating its effectiveness in tackling real-world PML challenges.
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spellingShingle Revisiting Sparsity Constraint Under High-Rank Property in Partial Multi-Label Learning
Si, Chongjie
Cui, Yidan
Yang, Fuchao
Yang, Xiaokang
Shen, Wei
Machine Learning
Partial Multi-Label Learning (PML) extends the multi-label learning paradigm to scenarios where each sample is associated with a candidate label set containing both ground-truth labels and noisy labels. Existing PML methods commonly rely on two assumptions: sparsity of the noise label matrix and low-rankness of the ground-truth label matrix. However, these assumptions are inherently conflicting and impractical for real-world scenarios, where the true label matrix is typically full-rank or close to full-rank. To address these limitations, we demonstrate that the sparsity constraint contributes to the high-rank property of the predicted label matrix. Based on this, we propose a novel method Schirn, which introduces a sparsity constraint on the noise label matrix while enforcing a high-rank property on the predicted label matrix. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of Schirn compared to state-of-the-art methods, validating its effectiveness in tackling real-world PML challenges.
title Revisiting Sparsity Constraint Under High-Rank Property in Partial Multi-Label Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20938