Polycategorical classification deals with the task of solving multiple interdependent classification problems. The key challenge
is to systematically exploit possible dependencies among the labels to improve on the standard approach of solving each classification
problem independently. Our method operates in two stages: the first stage uses the observed set of labels to learn a joint
label model that can be used to predict unobserved pattern labels purely based on inter-label dependencies. The second stage
uses the observed labels as well as inferred label predictions as input to a generalized transductive support vector machine.
The resulting mixed integer program is heuristically solved with a continuation method. We report experimental results on
a collaborative filtering task that provide empirical support for our approach.