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Minimal learning machine for multi-label learning

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Joonas Hämäläinen *
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Antoine Hubermont
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Amauri H. Souza
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César Mattos
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João P. P. Gomes
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Tommi Kärkkäinen
DOI:10.1007/s10994-025-06923-wdelete
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Distance-based supervised method, the minimal learning machine, constructs a predictive model from data by learning a mapping between input and output distance matrices. In this paper, we propose new methods and evaluate how their core component, the distance mapping, can be adapted to multi-label learning. The proposed approach is based on combining the distance mapping with an inverse distance weighting. Although the proposal is one of the simplest methods in the multi-label learning literature, it achieves state-of-the-art performance for small to moderate-sized multi-label learning problems. In addition to its simplicity, the proposed method is fully deterministic: Its hyper-parameter can be selected via ranking loss-based statistic which has a closed form, thus avoiding conventional cross-validation-based hyper-parameter tuning. In addition, due to its simple linear distance mapping-based construction, we demonstrate that the proposed method can assess the uncertainty of the predictions for multi-label classification, which is a valuable capability for data-centric machine learning pipelines.
Keywords:
Multi-label learning
Multi-label classification
Inverse-distance weighting
Minimal learning machine
Uncertainty
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