Partial multi-view classification (PMvC) poses a significant challenge due to the incomplete nature of multi-view data, which complicates effective information fusion and accurate classification. Existing PMvC methods typically rely on heuristic evaluations of view informativeness to achieve global alignment for downstream classification tasks. However, these approaches suffer from two critical issues: information redundancy and semantic misalignment. The complexity of missing data not only leads to over-reliance on redundant or less informative views but also exacerbates semantic misalignment across views, making it difficult for existing methods to effectively capture and discriminate the class-related features. To address these issues, this work proposes a novel GLobal-semantic Alignment Distillation (GLAD) model for partial multi-view classification without requiring imputation. Our approach incorporates a self-distillation mechanism that enables the model to extract informative features and achieve global semantic alignment across views. The key insight of GLAD is leveraging labels as semantic anchors to guide the alignment of partial multi-view features. By integrating labels with extracted features via a cross-attention mechanism, we generate ideal embeddings that consistently capture global semantics across views. These embeddings then serve as intermediate supervision for distilling the student model, ensuring robust semantic alignment even with missing views. We further introduce a margin-aware weighting strategy to enhance the model's discriminative ability. Extensive experimental results validate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, showcasing significant improvements in classification performance over existing techniques.

Semi-supervised multi-view learning is a remarkable but challenging task. Existing semi-supervised multi-view classification (SMVC) approaches mainly focus on performance improvement while ignoring decision reliability, which limits their deployment in safety-critical applications. Although several trusted multi-view classification methods are proposed recently, they rely on manual annotations. Therefore, this work emphasizes trusted multi-view classification learning under semi-supervised conditions. Different from existing SMVC methods, this work jointly models class probabilities and uncertainties based on evidential deep learning to formulate view-specific opinions. Moreover, unlike previous works that explore cross-view consistency in a single schema, this work proposes a multi-level consistency constraint. Specifically, we explore instance-level consistency on the view-specific representation space and category-level consistency on opinions from multiple views. Our proposed trusted graph-based contrastive loss nicely establishes the relationship between joint opinions and view-specific representations, which enables view-specific representations to enjoy a good manifold to improve classification performance. Overall, the proposed approach provides reliable and superior semi-supervised multiview classification decisions. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness, reliability and robustness of the proposed model.