Representation Learning With Dual Autoencoder for Multi-Label Classification

Multi-label classification aims to deal with the problem that an object may be associated with one or more labels, which is a more difficult task due to the complex nature of multi-label data. The crucial problem of multi-label classification is the more robust and higher-level feature representation learning, which can reduce non-helpful feature attributes from the input space prior to training. In recent years, deep learning methods based on autoencoders have achieved excellent performance in multi-label classification for the advantages of powerful representations learning ability and fast convergence speed. However, most existing autoencoder-based methods only rely on the single autoencoder model, which pose challenges for multi-label feature representations learning and fail to measure similarities between data spaces. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel representation learning method with dual autoencoder for multi-label classification. Compared to the existing autoencoder-based methods, our proposed method can capture different characteristics and more abstract features from data by the serially connection of two different types of autoencoders. More specifically, firstly, the algorithm of Reconstruction Independent Component Analysis (RICA) in sparse autoencoder is trained on patches on all training and test dataset for robust global feature representations learning. Secondly, with the output of RICA, stacked autoencoder with manifold regularization (SAMR) is introduced to ameliorate the quality of multi-label features learning. Comprehensive experiments on several real-world data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach compared with several competing state-of-the-art methods.