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In real-world scenarios, the number of training samples across classes usually subjects to a long-tailed distribution. The conventionally trained network may achieve unexpected inferior performance on the rare class compared to the frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yuxiang Bao , Guoliang Kang , Linlin Yang , Xiaoyue Duan , Bo Zhao , Baochang Zhang

Real-world data often follows a long-tailed distribution, where a few head classes occupy most of the data and a large number of tail classes only contain very limited samples. In practice, deep models often show poor generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Haolin Pan , Yong Guo , Mianjie Yu , Jian Chen

Reinforcement learning(RL) post-training has become essential for aligning large language models (LLMs), yet its efficiency is increasingly constrained by the rollout phase, where long trajectories are generated token by token. We identify…

We analyze neural scaling laws in a solvable model of last-layer fine-tuning where targets have intrinsic, instance-heterogeneous difficulty. In our Latent Instance Difficulty (LID) model, each input's target variance is governed by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Noam Levi

Modern image classifiers perform well on populated classes, while degrading considerably on tail classes with only a few instances. Humans, by contrast, effortlessly handle the long-tailed recognition challenge, since they can learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yingjun Du , Jiayi Shen , Xiantong Zhen , Cees G. M. Snoek

Long-tailed recognition with imbalanced class distribution naturally emerges in practical machine learning applications. Existing methods such as data reweighing, resampling, and supervised contrastive learning enforce the class balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Chengkai Hou , Jieyu Zhang , Haonan Wang , Tianyi Zhou

Normalising flows are tractable probabilistic models that leverage the power of deep learning to describe a wide parametric family of distributions, all while remaining trainable using maximum likelihood. We discuss how these methods can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Simon Alexanderson , Gustav Eje Henter

Real-world data often follow a long-tailed distribution as the frequency of each class is typically different. For example, a dataset can have a large number of under-represented classes and a few classes with more than sufficient data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Peng Chu , Xiao Bian , Shaopeng Liu , Haibin Ling

Despite impressive accuracy, deep neural networks are often miscalibrated and tend to overly confident predictions. Recent techniques like temperature scaling (TS) and label smoothing (LS) show effectiveness in obtaining a well-calibrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Mobarakol Islam , Lalithkumar Seenivasan , Hongliang Ren , Ben Glocker

This paper considers deep visual recognition on long-tailed data. To be general, we consider two applied scenarios, \ie, deep classification and deep metric learning. Under the long-tailed data distribution, the majority classes (\ie, tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Jialun Liu , Jingwei Zhang , Yi yang , Wenhui Li , Chi Zhang , Yifan Sun

Datasets with extreme observations and/or heavy-tailed error distributions are commonly encountered and should be analyzed with careful consideration of these features from a statistical perspective. Small deviations from an assumed model,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-12 Meadhbh O'Neill , Kevin Burke

Ensuring robust performance on long-tail examples is an important problem for many real-world applications of machine learning, such as autonomous driving. This work focuses on the problem of identifying rare examples within a corpus of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Mao Ye , Gregory P. Meyer , Zaiwei Zhang , Dennis Park , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Yuning Chai , Eric M Wolff

Continued improvements in deep learning architectures have steadily advanced the overall performance of 3D object detectors to levels on par with humans for certain tasks and datasets, where the overall performance is mostly driven by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chiyu Max Jiang , Mahyar Najibi , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov

Class imbalance problems frequently occur in real-world tasks, and conventional deep learning algorithms are well known for performance degradation on imbalanced training datasets. To mitigate this problem, many approaches have aimed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sumyeong Ahn , Jongwoo Ko , Se-Young Yun

Recognizing driving behaviors is important for downstream tasks such as reasoning, planning, and navigation. Existing video recognition approaches work well for common behaviors (e.g. "drive straight", "brake", "turn left/right"). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Chirag Parikh , Ravi Shankar Mishra , Rohan Chandra , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable advancements in various fields using large, well-annotated datasets. However, real-world data often exhibit long-tailed distributions and label noise, significantly degrading generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jae Soon Baik , In Young Yoon , Kun Hoon Kim , Jun Won Choi

Deep learning models for vision tasks are trained on large datasets under the assumption that there exists a universal representation that can be used to make predictions for all samples. Whereas high complexity models are proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Botos Csaba , Adel Bibi , Yanwei Li , Philip Torr , Ser-Nam Lim

We address the challenging problem of Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning (LTSSL) where labeled data exhibit imbalanced class distribution and unlabeled data follow an unknown distribution. Unlike in balanced SSL, the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Chengcheng Ma , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

Long-tailed class distributions are pervasive in multi-class medical datasets and pose significant challenges for deep learning models which typically underperform on tail classes with limited samples. This limitation is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jiaxiang Jiang , Mahesh Subedar , Omesh Tickoo

In realistic medical settings, the data are often inherently long-tailed, with most samples concentrated in a few classes and a long tail of rare classes, usually containing just a few samples. This distribution presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Maximilian Mueller , Matthias Hein