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Wei-Xuan Bao

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AAAI Conference 2026 Conference Paper

Collaborative Dual Representations for Semi-Supervised Partial Label Learning

Wei-Xuan Bao
Yong Rui
Min-Ling Zhang

Semi-supervised partial label learning (SSPLL) aims to improve the generalization performance of partial label (PL) classifiers by effectively leveraging unlabeled data. Nevertheless, the inherent ambiguity in supervision, where the ground-truth label of a PL example is hidden within a set of candidate labels, poses significant challenges. The presence of false positive labels potentially misleads model's judgment, resulting in pronounced confirmation bias. To address these issues, we propose a novel approach named CODUAL, which jointly learns a pair of dual representations for each instance: the predictive class distribution and the low-dimensional embedding. The dual representations interact and progress collaboratively during training. On one hand, in the embedding space the class prototypes are derived via solving a tailored empirical distance minimization problem and employed to smooth the pseudo-targets of unlabeled instances. On the other hand, the refined class distributions regularize the embedding space via encouraging instances with similar pseudo-targets to exhibit similar embeddings. Through an in-depth analysis, we provide-to the best of our knowledge-the first theoretical explanation of how collaborative dual representations facilitate more effective use of unlabeled data for disambiguation. Extensive experiments over benchmark datasets validate the superiority of our proposed approach.

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AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Disentangled Partial Label Learning

Wei-Xuan Bao
Yong Rui
Min-Ling Zhang

Partial label learning (PLL) induces a multi-class classifier from training examples each associated with a set of candidate labels, among which only one is valid. The formation of real-world data typically arises from heterogeneous entanglement of series latent explanatory factors, which are considered intrinsic properties for discriminating between different patterns. Though learning disentangled representation is expected to facilitate label disambiguation for partial-label (PL) examples, few existing works were dedicated to addressing this issue. In this paper, we make the first attempt towards disentangled PLL and propose a novel approach named TERIAL, which makes predictions according to derived disentangled representation of instances and label embeddings. The TERIAL approach formulates the PL examples as an undirected bipartite graph where instances are only connected with their candidate labels, and employs a tailored neighborhood routing mechanism to yield disentangled representation of nodes in the graph. Specifically, the proposed routing mechanism progressively infers the explanatory factors that contribute to the edge between adjacent nodes and augments the representation of the central node with factor-aware embedding information propagated from specific neighbors simultaneously via iteratively analyzing the promising subspace clusters formed by the node and its neighbors. The estimated labeling confidence matrix is also introduced to accommodate unreliable links owing to the inherent ambiguity of PLL. Moreover, we theoretically prove that the neighborhood routing mechanism will converge to the point estimate that maximizes the marginal likelihood of observed PL training examples. Comprehensive experiments over various datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art counterparts.

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