Deep Multiple Instance

Deep Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) addresses the challenge of classifying collections of data (bags) where only bag-level labels are available, not individual instance labels. Current research focuses on improving MIL's accuracy and interpretability through techniques like attention mechanisms (e.g., smooth attention, distance-aware self-attention, probabilistic attention using Gaussian Processes), hierarchical models, and incorporating external information such as eye-tracking data. This approach is particularly valuable in domains like medical image analysis and natural language processing where obtaining instance-level labels is costly or impractical, enabling the development of more efficient and robust diagnostic tools and information extraction systems.

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