Maximal Correlation Embedding Network for Multilabel Learning with Missing Labels

Multilabel learning, the problem of mapping each data instance to a subset of labels, appears frequently in many real-world applications. However, obtaining complete label annotation for every instance requires tremendous efforts, especially when the label set is large. As a result, multilabel learning with missing labels remains as a common challenge. Existing works either cannot handle missing labels or lack nonlinear expressiveness and scalability to large label set. In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end solution for multilabel learning with missing labels. Our algorithm, Maximal Correlation Embedding Network learns a low dimensional label embedding using an encoder-decoder architecture. It exploits label similarity through a maximal correlation regularization in the embedded label space to reduce the classification bias due to missing labels. A series of experiments on popular multilabel datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms state of the art, both in complete data and partially observed data.