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Multi-label classification with a reject option

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Ignazio Pillai *
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Giorgio Fumera
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Fabio Roli
DOI:10.1016/j.patcog.2013.01.035delete
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We consider multi-label classification problems in application scenarios where classifier accuracy is not satisfactory, but manual annotation is too costly. In single-label problems, a well known solution consists of using a reject option, i.e., allowing a classifier to withhold unreliable decisions, leaving them (and only them) to human operators. We argue that this solution can be exploited also in multi-label problems. However, the current theoretical framework for classification with a reject option applies only to single-label problems. We thus develop a specific framework for multi-label ones. In particular, we extend multi-label accuracy measures to take into account rejections, and define manual annotation cost as a cost function. We then formalise the goal of attaining a desired trade-off between classifier accuracy on non-rejected decisions, and the cost of manually handling rejected decisions, as a constrained optimisation problem. We finally develop two possible implementations of our framework, tailored to the widely used F accuracy measure, and to the only cost models proposed so far for multi-label annotation tasks, and experimentally evaluate them on five application domains. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Multi-label classification
Manual annotation
Reject option
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Pattern Recognition
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university of cagliari
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