Estimating labels from label proportions

Abstract

Consider the following problem: given sets of unlabeled observations, each set with known label proportions, predict the labels of another set of observations, possibly with known label propor-tions. This problem occurs in areas like e-commerce, politics, spam filtering and improper content detection. We present consistent estimators which can reconstruct the correct labels with high prob-ability in a uniform convergence sense. Experiments show that our method works well in practice. Show more