Novel apriori-based multi-label learning algorithm by exploiting coupled label relationship

It is a key challenge to exploit the label coupling relationship in multi-label classification (MLC) problems. Most previous work focused on label pairwise relations, in which generally only global statistical information is used to analyze the coupled label relationship. In this work, firstly Bayesian and hypothesis testing methods are applied to predict the label set size of testing samples within their k nearest neighbor samples, which combines global and local statistical information, and then apriori algorithm is used to mine the label coupling relationship among multiple labels rather than pairwise labels, which can exploit the label coupling relations more accurately and comprehensively. The experimental results on text, biology and audio datasets shown that, compared with the state-of-the-art algorithm, the proposed algorithm can obtain better performance on 5 common criteria.