# Recurrent Halting Chain for Early Multi-label Classification

Published in KDD, 2020

Early Multi-label Classification of the Time Series is the task of predicting a label set for a time series instance while observing as few time steps per class as possible. This is extremely important in time-sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, and weather prediction. A key example of this setting is in Clinical Diagnosis: Given a patient’s physiological stream, predict their set of conditions early enough to allow a clinician to react in time. The key challenge/opportunity in this problem is to use the correlations between labels to predict more-accurate label sets earlier. We propose the first solution to this open problem, combining a recurrent neural network, classifier chain, and reinforcement-learning based halting policy network. At every time step, the model chooses whether or not to halt and predict each class. Once a label is predicted, it is added to a growing set of already-predicted labels which is fed back into the model itself, serving as a classifier chain. We validate our approach using human activity recognition data.

@inproceedings{hartvigsen2020recurrent,
title={Recurrent Halting Chain for Early Multi-label Classification},
author={Hartvigsen, Thomas and Sen, Cansu and Kong, Xiangnan and Rundensteiner, Elke},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining},
year={2020},
organization={ACM}
}