Multilabel Classification in Parallel Tasks

In real world multilabel problems, it is often the case that e.g. documents are simultaneously classified with labels from multiple domains, such as genres in addition to topics. In practice, each of these problems is solved independently without taking advantage of possible label correlations between domains. Following the multi-task learning setting, in which multiple similar tasks are learned in parallel, we propose a global learning approach that jointly considers all domains. It is empirically demonstrated in this work that this approach is effective despite its simplicity when using a multilabel learner that takes label correlations into account.