Coupled attribute similarity learning on categorical data for multi-label classification

In this paper a novel coupled attribute similarity learning method is proposed with the basis on the multi-label categorical data (CASonMLCD). The CASonMLCD method not only computes the correlations between different attributes and multi-label sets using information gain, which can be regarded as the important degree of each attribute in the attribute learning method, but also further analyzes the intra-coupled and inter-coupled interactions between an attribute value pair for different attributes and multiple labels. The paper compared the CASonMLCD method with the OF distance and Jaccard similarity, which is based on the MLKNN algorithm according to 5 common evaluation criteria. The experiment results demonstrated that the CASonMLCD method can mine the similarity relationship more accurately and comprehensively, it can obtain better performance than compared methods.