Soft-label recover based label-specific features learning

Presently, multi-label classification algorithms are mainly based on positive and negative logical labels, which have achieved good results. However, logical labeling inevitably leads to the label misclassification problem. In addition, missing labels are common in multi-label datasets. Recovering missing labels and constructing soft labels that reflect the mapping relationship between instances and labels is a difficult task. Most existing algorithms can only solve one of these problems. Based on this, this paper proposes a soft-label recover based label-specific features learning (SLR-LSF) to solve the above problems simultaneously. Firstly, the information entropy is used to calculate the confidence matrix between labels, and the membership degree of soft labels is obtained by combining the label density information. Secondly, the membership degree and confidence matrix are combined to construct soft labels, and this process not only solves the problem of missing labels but also obtains soft labels with richer semantic information. Finally, in the process of learning specific label features for soft labels. The local smoothness of the labels learned through stream regularization is complemented by the global label correlation, thus improving the classification performance of the algorithm. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we conduct comprehensive experiments on several datasets.