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Real-world data universally confronts a severe class-imbalance problem and exhibits a long-tailed distribution, i.e., most labels are associated with limited instances. The na\"ive models supervised by such datasets would prefer dominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhengzhuo Xu , Zenghao Chai , Chun Yuan

Training deep object detectors demands expensive bounding box annotation. Active learning (AL) is a promising technique to alleviate the annotation burden. Performing AL at box-level for object detection, i.e., selecting the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jingyi Liao , Xun Xu , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Lile Cai

Softmax-based losses have achieved state-of-the-art performances on various tasks such as face recognition and re-identification. However, these methods highly relied on clean datasets with global labels, which limits their usage in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Qiang Meng , Xinqian Gu , Xiaqing Xu , Feng Zhou

We present a new loss function called Distribution-Balanced Loss for the multi-label recognition problems that exhibit long-tailed class distributions. Compared to conventional single-label classification problem, multi-label recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Tong Wu , Qingqiu Huang , Ziwei Liu , Yu Wang , Dahua Lin

We present an elegant and effective approach for addressing limitations in existing multi-label classification models by incorporating interaction matching, a concept shown to be useful for ad-hoc search result ranking. By performing soft…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Sean MacAvaney , Franck Dernoncourt , Walter Chang , Nazli Goharian , Ophir Frieder

The real-world data distribution is essentially long-tailed, which poses great challenge to the deep model. In this work, we propose a new method, Gradual Balanced Loss and Adaptive Feature Generator (GLAG) to alleviate imbalance. GLAG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zihan Zhang , Xiang Xiang

Normalization is a vital process for any machine learning task as it controls the properties of data and affects model performance at large. The impact of particular forms of normalization, however, has so far been investigated in limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chintan Trivedi , Konstantinos Makantasis , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

The conventional detectors tend to make imbalanced classification and suffer performance drop, when the distribution of the training data is severely skewed. In this paper, we propose to use the mean classification score to indicate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Chengjian Feng , Yujie Zhong , Weilin Huang

Data in real-world object detection often exhibits the long-tailed distribution. Existing solutions tackle this problem by mitigating the competition between the head and tail categories. However, due to the scarcity of training samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Bo Li , Yongqiang Yao , Jingru Tan , Xin Lu , Fengwei Yu , Ye Luo , Jianwei Lu

In many real-world applications, the frequency distribution of class labels for training data can exhibit a long-tailed distribution, which challenges traditional approaches of training deep neural networks that require heavy amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Richard Franklin , Jiawei Yao , Deyang Zhong , Qi Qian , Juhua Hu

The label distribution skew induced data heterogeniety has been shown to be a significant obstacle that limits the model performance in federated learning, which is particularly developed for collaborative model training over decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Jian Xu , Meiling Yang , Wenbo Ding , Shao-Lun Huang

Active learning (AL) algorithms aim to identify an optimal subset of data for annotation, such that deep neural networks (DNN) can achieve better performance when trained on this labeled subset. AL is especially impactful in industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zeyad Ali Sami Emam , Hong-Min Chu , Ping-Yeh Chiang , Wojciech Czaja , Richard Leapman , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

The long-tail distribution of the visual world poses great challenges for deep learning based classification models on how to handle the class imbalance problem. Existing solutions usually involve class-balancing strategies, e.g., by loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Bingyi Kang , Saining Xie , Marcus Rohrbach , Zhicheng Yan , Albert Gordo , Jiashi Feng , Yannis Kalantidis

Despite achieving state-of-the-art results in nearly all Natural Language Processing applications, fine-tuning Transformer-based language models still requires a significant amount of labeled data to work. A well known technique to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Julius Gonsior , Christian Falkenberg , Silvio Magino , Anja Reusch , Maik Thiele , Wolfgang Lehner

Mixup is a popular data augmentation method, with many variants subsequently proposed. These methods mainly create new examples via convex combination of random data pairs and their corresponding one-hot labels. However, most of them adhere…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Shaoyu Zhang , Chen Chen , Xiujuan Zhang , Silong Peng

Training deep learning models on in-home IoT sensory data is commonly used to recognise human activities. Recently, federated learning systems that use edge devices as clients to support local human activity recognition have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yuchen Zhao , Hanyang Liu , Honglin Li , Payam Barnaghi , Hamed Haddadi

Real-world visual recognition problems often exhibit long-tailed distributions, where the amount of data for learning in different categories shows significant imbalance. Standard classification models learned on such data distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Lvlong Lai , Henghui Ding , Qingyao Wu

Training with more data has always been the most stable and effective way of improving performance in deep learning era. As the largest object detection dataset so far, Open Images brings great opportunities and challenges for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Junran Peng , Xingyuan Bu , Ming Sun , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan , Junjie Yan

Deep long-tailed learning, one of the most challenging problems in visual recognition, aims to train well-performing deep models from a large number of images that follow a long-tailed class distribution. In the last decade, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yifan Zhang , Bingyi Kang , Bryan Hooi , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Real-world data often have a long-tailed distribution, where the number of samples per class is not equal over training classes. The imbalanced data form a biased feature space, which deteriorates the performance of the recognition model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Minki Jeong , Changick Kim