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Coherent Hierarchical Multi−Label Classification Networks

Eleonora Giunchiglia and Thomas Lukasiewicz

Abstract

Hierarchical multi-label classification (HMC) is a challenging classification task extending standard multi-label classification problems by imposing a hierarchy constraint on the classes. In this paper, we propose C-HMCNN(h), a novel approach for HMC problems, which, given a network h for the underlying multi-label classification problem, exploits the hierarchy information in order to produce predictions consistent with the constraint and improve performance. We conduct an extensive experimental analysis showing the superior performance of C-HMCNN(h) when compared to state-of-the-art models.

Book Title
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems‚ NeurIPS 2020‚ December 6–12‚ 2020
Month
December
Year
2020