SyMIL: MinMax Latent SVM for Weakly Labeled Data

Designing powerful models able to handle weakly labeled data are a crucial problem in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a new multiple instance learning (MIL) framework. Examples are represented as bags of instances, but we depart from standard MIL assumptions by introducing a symmetric st...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transaction on neural networks and learning systems 2018-12, Vol.29 (12), p.6099-6112
Hauptverfasser: Durand, Thibaut, Thome, Nicolas, Cord, Matthieu
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Zusammenfassung:Designing powerful models able to handle weakly labeled data are a crucial problem in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a new multiple instance learning (MIL) framework. Examples are represented as bags of instances, but we depart from standard MIL assumptions by introducing a symmetric strategy (SyMIL) that seeks discriminative instances in positive and negative bags. The idea is to use the instance the most distant from the hyper-plan to classify the bag. We provide a theoretical analysis featuring the generalization properties of our model. We derive a large margin formulation of our problem, which is cast as a difference of convex functions, and optimized using concave-convex procedure. We provide a primal version optimizing with stochastic subgradient descent and a dual version optimizing with one-slack cutting-plane. Successful experimental results are reported on standard MIL and weakly supervised object detection data sets: SyMIL significantly outperforms competitive methods (mi/MI/Latent-SVM), and gives very competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art works. We also analyze the selected instances of symmetric and asymmetric approaches on weakly supervised object detection and text classification tasks. Finally, we show complementarity of SyMIL with recent works on learning with label proportions on standard MIL data sets.
ISSN:2162-237X
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DOI:10.1109/TNNLS.2018.2820055