AME-LSIFT: Attention-Aware Multi-Label Ensemble With Label Subset-SpecIfic FeaTures

Multi-label ensemble can achieve superior performance on multi-label learning problems by integrating a number of base classifiers. In existing multi-label ensemble methods, the base classifiers are usually trained with the same original features; it is difficult for each base classifier to capture label-relevant or label subset-relevant information. Meanwhile, the manually designed integrating strategies cannot automatically distinguish the importance of the base classifiers, which also lack flexibility and scalability. In order to resolve these problems, this paper proposes a new multi-label ensemble framework, named Attention-aware Multi-label Ensemble with Label Subset-specIfic FeaTures (AME-LSIFT). It utilizes <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$c$</tex-math></inline-formula>-means clustering to produce Label Subset-specIfic FeaTures (LSIFT), constructs a neural network based model for each label subset, and integrates the base models with a dynamic and automatic attention-aware mechanism. Moreover, an objective function that considers both the label subset accuracy and ensemble accuracy is developed for training the proposed AME-LSIFT. Experiments conducted on ten benchmark datasets demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method compared with state-of-the-art approaches.