Combining Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Label Classification Tasks with Partial Labels

Z Jia, J Li, S Zhang, A Liu, Z Zheng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16293, 2024 - arxiv.org
arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16293, 2024arxiv.org
Traditional supervised learning heavily relies on human-annotated datasets, especially in
data-hungry neural approaches. However, various tasks, especially multi-label tasks like
document-level relation extraction, pose challenges in fully manual annotation due to the
specific domain knowledge and large class sets. Therefore, we address the multi-label
positive-unlabelled learning (MLPUL) problem, where only a subset of positive classes is
annotated. We propose Mixture Learner for Partially Annotated Classification (MLPAC), an …
Traditional supervised learning heavily relies on human-annotated datasets, especially in data-hungry neural approaches. However, various tasks, especially multi-label tasks like document-level relation extraction, pose challenges in fully manual annotation due to the specific domain knowledge and large class sets. Therefore, we address the multi-label positive-unlabelled learning (MLPUL) problem, where only a subset of positive classes is annotated. We propose Mixture Learner for Partially Annotated Classification (MLPAC), an RL-based framework combining the exploration ability of reinforcement learning and the exploitation ability of supervised learning. Experimental results across various tasks, including document-level relation extraction, multi-label image classification, and binary PU learning, demonstrate the generalization and effectiveness of our framework.
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