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A review of multi-instance learning assumptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2010

James Foulds  and
Eibe Frank
James Foulds*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand
Eibe Frank*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand
*
e-mail: jf47@cs.waikato.ac.nz, eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz
e-mail: jf47@cs.waikato.ac.nz, eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz
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Abstract

Multi-instance (MI) learning is a variant of inductive machine learning, where each learning example contains a bag of instances instead of a single feature vector. The term commonly refers to the supervised setting, where each bag is associated with a label. This type of representation is a natural fit for a number of real-world learning scenarios, including drug activity prediction and image classification, hence many MI learning algorithms have been proposed. Any MI learning method must relate instances to bag-level class labels, but many types of relationships between instances and class labels are possible. Although all early work in MI learning assumes a specific MI concept class known to be appropriate for a drug activity prediction domain; this ‘standard MI assumption’ is not guaranteed to hold in other domains. Much of the recent work in MI learning has concentrated on a relaxed view of the MI problem, where the standard MI assumption is dropped, and alternative assumptions are considered instead. However, often it is not clearly stated what particular assumption is used and how it relates to other assumptions that have been proposed. In this paper, we aim to clarify the use of alternative MI assumptions by reviewing the work done in this area.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 1 - 25
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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