Instance-Level Semisupervised Multiple Instance Learning

Abstract

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a branch of machine learning that attempts to learn information from bags of instances. Many real-world applications such as localized content-based image retrieval and text categorization can be viewed as MIL problems. In this paper, we propose a new graph-based semi-supervised learning approach for multiple instance learning. By defining an instance-level graph on the data, we first propose a new approach to construct an optimization framework for multiple instance semi-supervised learning, and derive an efficient way to overcome the non-convexity of MIL. We empirically show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art MIL algorithms on several real-world data sets.