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Robust Label Proportions Learning

Conference Paper Main Conference Track Artificial Intelligence ยท Machine Learning

Abstract

Learning from Label Proportions (LLP) is a weakly-supervised paradigm that uses bag-level label proportions to train instance-level classifiers, offering a practical alternative to costly instance-level annotation. However, the weak supervision makes effective training challenging, and existing methods often rely on pseudo-labeling, which introduces noise. To address this, we propose RLPL, a two-stage framework. In the first stage, we use unsupervised contrastive learning to pretrain the encoder and train an auxiliary classifier with bag-level supervision. In the second stage, we introduce an LLP-OTD mechanism to refine pseudo labels and split them into high- and low-confidence sets. These sets are then used in LLPMix to train the final classifier. Extensive experiments and ablation studies on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that RLPL achieves comparable state-of-the-art performance and effectively mitigates pseudo-label noise.

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Context

Venue
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Archive span
1987-2025
Indexed papers
30776
Paper id
229466279116192734
v2026.09.13