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Quasibinary Classifier for Images with Zero and Multiple Labels

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It is shown in a variety of image classification settings and on several datasets, that quasibinary classifiers are considerably better in classification settings where regular binary and softmax classifiers suffer, including zero-label and multi-label classification.

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