VSE-ens: Visual-Semantic Embeddings with Efficient Negative Sampling

Jointing visual-semantic embeddings (VSE) have become a research hotpot for the task of image annotation, which suffers from the issue of semantic gap, i.e., the gap between images' visual features (low-level) and labels' semantic features (high-level). This issue will be even more challenging if visual features cannot be retrieved from images, that is, when images are only denoted by numerical IDs as given in some real datasets. The typical way of existing VSE methods is to perform a uniform sampling method for negative examples that violate the ranking order against positive examples, which requires a time-consuming search in the whole label space. In this paper, we propose a fast adaptive negative sampler that can work well in the settings of no figure pixels available. Our sampling strategy is to choose the negative examples that are most likely to meet the requirements of violation according to the latent factors of images. In this way, our approach can linearly scale up to large datasets. The experiments demonstrate that our approach converges 5.02x faster than the state-of-the-art approaches on OpenImages, 2.5x on IAPR-TCI2 and 2.06x on NUS-WIDE datasets, as well as better ranking accuracy across datasets.Comment: Published by The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18

基于邻域粗糙集的多标记属性约简算法

在多标记学习中,属性约简是解决多标记数据维数灾难的一个关键技术.针对邻域粗糙集属性约简在计算正域代价较大和多标记数据中标记具有不同的强弱性问题,提出了基于邻域粗糙集的多标记属性约简算法.该算法首先利用样本在整个属性空间下到其异类样本的平均距离与到其同类样本的平均距离的差值对标记进行加权;其次,利用取整函数对样本空间进行划分,提出了一种新的多标记邻域粗糙集快速计算正域的方法;最后,根据前向贪心搜索算法进行属性约简,以获得一组新的属性排序.实验给出了5个多标记数据集在4个评价准则上的对比结果,实验结果分析表明了所提算法的有效性.国家青年科学基金项目(N61603173);;福建省自然科学基金项目(2018J01422);;浙江省海洋大数据挖掘与应用重点实验室开放课题(OBDMA201603

VSE-ens: Visual-Semantic Embeddings with Efficient Negative Sampling

Jointing visual-semantic embeddings (VSE) have become a research hotpot for the task of image annotation, which suffers from the issue of semantic gap, i.e., the gap between images' visual features (low-level) and labels' semantic features (high-level). This issue will be even more challenging if visual features cannot be retrieved from images, that is, when images are only denoted by numerical IDs as given in some real datasets. The typical way of existing VSE methods is to perform a uniform sampling method for negative examples that violate the ranking order against positive examples, which requires a time-consuming search in the whole label space. In this paper, we propose a fast adaptive negative sampler that can work well in the settings of no figure pixels available. Our sampling strategy is to choose the negative examples that are most likely to meet the requirements of violation according to the latent factors of images. In this way, our approach can linearly scale up to large datasets. The experiments demonstrate that our approach converges 5.02x faster than the state-of-the-art approaches on OpenImages, 2.5x on IAPR-TCI2 and 2.06x on NUS-WIDE datasets, as well as better ranking accuracy across datasets.Comment: Published by The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18

Index System Reduction Method Based on the Index Similarity

Multi-attribute decision making (MADM) always suffers from the result inconsistency and computational complexity problem, due to numbers of redundant and relational attributes (indexes) of the initial evaluation index system. Therefore, this paper studies the index system (IS) reduction problem through selecting the most representative indicator from each index subsystem after the IS structure partition. First, we propose and demonstrate the Index Subsystem Judgement theorem to improve the efficiency of the classic system structure partition algorithm. Second, an algorithm of index system reduction based on the index similarity (ISRS) is put forward. The ISRS is able to reduce the index quantity while still keeping the index meaning. Third, we define the direction loss rate to measure the evaluation ability loss of the IS during reduction. The algorithm is tested for a synthetic dataset to compare the proposed ISRS with different index reduction algorithms, followed by an extensive experimentation with a real-world financial dataset. Experiment results illustrate that our proposed method is able to obtain more accessible and available reduction results in practice