arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

Beyond the Dominant Label: Recovering Coexisting Lesion Evidence with Multiple Instance Learning

The paper introduces DomSet-MIL, a multiple instance learning framework designed to recover evidence of coexisting lesions in whole-slide images when only the most severe diagnosis is weakly supervised. It models the dominant-label mechanism through a censored likelihood that treats the reported diagnosis as the maximum severity without assuming other lesions are absent, and employs severity-ordered residual routing with top‑q pooling to preserve secondary findings. Experiments on natural and controlled datasets show that DomSet-MIL outperforms standard MIL approaches in dominant-label prediction while better recovering latent coexisting-lesion evidence.

By Lubin Gan, Jing Zhang, Xinming Zhang, Chengpeng Xu, Siying Wu, Xiaoyan Sun
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

LadderMIL: Multiple Instance Learning with Coarse-to-Fine Self-Distillation

arXiv:2502.02707v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) for whole slide image (WSI) analysis in computational pathology often neglects instance-level learning as supervis...

By Shuyang Wu, Yifu Qiu, Ines P. Nearchou, Sandrine Prost, Jonathan A. Fallowfield, Hideki Ueno, Hitoshi Tsuda, David J. Harrison, Hakan Bilen, Timothy J. Kendall
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

In-Context Multiple Instance Learning

arXiv:2606. 06458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) addresses problems where supervision is available at the level of bags of instances and has been successfully applied in fields ranging from computational pathology to satellite imagery.

By Alexander M\"ollers, Marvin Sextro, Julius Hense, Gabriel Dernbach, Klaus-Robert M\"uller