Joint & Progressive Learning from High-Dimensional Data for Multi-Label Classification
This work addresses multi-label classification challenges by improving feature representation from high-dimensional data, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing subspace learning techniques.
The paper tackled the limitations of nonlinear subspace learning techniques in explainability, generalization, and cost-effectiveness by developing a novel linearized subspace learning method called J-Play for multi-label classification, achieving superior performance in extensive experiments compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Despite the fact that nonlinear subspace learning techniques (e.g. manifold learning) have successfully applied to data representation, there is still room for improvement in explainability (explicit mapping), generalization (out-of-samples), and cost-effectiveness (linearization). To this end, a novel linearized subspace learning technique is developed in a joint and progressive way, called \textbf{j}oint and \textbf{p}rogressive \textbf{l}earning str\textbf{a}teg\textbf{y} (J-Play), with its application to multi-label classification. The J-Play learns high-level and semantically meaningful feature representation from high-dimensional data by 1) jointly performing multiple subspace learning and classification to find a latent subspace where samples are expected to be better classified; 2) progressively learning multi-coupled projections to linearly approach the optimal mapping bridging the original space with the most discriminative subspace; 3) locally embedding manifold structure in each learnable latent subspace. Extensive experiments are performed to demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of the proposed method in comparison with previous state-of-the-art methods.