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Real-world visual recognition requires handling the extreme sample imbalance in large-scale long-tailed data. We propose a "divide&conquer" strategy for the challenging LVIS task: divide the whole data into balanced parts and then apply…

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Real-world data distributions are often highly skewed. This has spurred a growing body of research on long-tailed recognition, aimed at addressing the imbalance in training classification models. Among the methods studied, multiplicative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Naoya Hasegawa , Issei Sato

Many data distributions in the real world are hardly uniform. Instead, skewed and long-tailed distributions of various kinds are commonly observed. This poses an interesting problem for machine learning, where most algorithms assume or work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Charika de Alvis , Suranga Seneviratne

Camera traps are a method for monitoring wildlife and they collect a large number of pictures. The number of images collected of each species usually follows a long-tail distribution, i.e., a few classes have a large number of instances,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Fagner Cunha , Eulanda M. dos Santos , Juan G. Colonna

Real-world large-scale datasets are both noisily labeled and class-imbalanced. The issues seriously hurt the generalization of trained models. It is hence significant to address the simultaneous incorrect labeling and class-imbalance, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Manyi Zhang , Xuyang Zhao , Jun Yao , Chun Yuan , Weiran Huang

In spite of the dominant performances of deep neural networks, recent works have shown that they are poorly calibrated, resulting in over-confident predictions. Miscalibration can be exacerbated by overfitting due to the minimization of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Bingyuan Liu , Ismail Ben Ayed , Adrian Galdran , Jose Dolz

Balancing performance trade-off on long-tail (LT) data distributions remains a long-standing challenge. In this paper, we posit that this dilemma stems from a phenomenon called "tail performance degradation" (the model tends to severely…

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Classification is an important statistical learning tool. In real application, besides high prediction accuracy, it is often desirable to estimate class conditional probabilities for new observations. For traditional problems where the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Guo Xian Yau , Chong Zhang

With the development of deep learning, Deep Metric Learning (DML) has achieved great improvements in face recognition. Specifically, the widely used softmax loss in the training process often bring large intra-class variations, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Bowen Wu , Huaming Wu , Monica M. Y. Zhang

Foundation models like CLIP allow zero-shot transfer on various tasks without additional training data. Yet, the zero-shot performance is less competitive than a fully supervised one. Thus, to enhance the performance, fine-tuning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Beier Zhu , Kaihua Tang , Qianru Sun , Hanwang Zhang

While modern visual recognition systems have made significant advancements, many continue to struggle with the open problem of learning from few exemplars. This paper focuses on the task of object detection in the setting where object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Phi Vu Tran

Real-world datasets often follow a long-tailed distribution, making generalization to tail classes difficult. Recent methods resorted to long-tail variants of Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM), such as ImbSAM and CC-SAM, to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sicong Li , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Zitai Wang , Linchao Zhang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

We present a formulation of deep learning that aims at producing a large margin classifier. The notion of margin, minimum distance to a decision boundary, has served as the foundation of several theoretically profound and empirically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-05 Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Dilip Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi , Kevin Regan , Samy Bengio

Causal inference has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate long-tail classification by handling the biases introduced by class imbalance. However, along with the change of advanced backbone models from Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xiaoshuo Yan , Zhaochuan Li , Lei Meng , Zhuang Qi , Wei Wu , Zixuan Li , Xiangxu Meng

In ordinal classification, misclassifying neighboring ranks is common, yet the consequences of these errors are not the same. For example, misclassifying benign tumor categories is less consequential, compared to an error at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dileepa Pitawela , Gustavo Carneiro , Hsiang-Ting Chen

Long-tailed object detection faces great challenges because of its extremely imbalanced class distribution. Recent methods mainly focus on the classification bias and its loss function design, while ignoring the subtle influence of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Jie Shao , Tianyu Liu , Jianxin Wu

Contrastive learning, along with its variations, has been a highly effective self-supervised learning method across diverse domains. Contrastive learning measures the distance between representations using cosine similarity and uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Daniel Rho , TaeSoo Kim , Sooill Park , Jaehyun Park , JaeHan Park

Long-tailed classification, where a small number of frequent classes dominate many rare ones, remains challenging because models systematically favor frequent classes at inference time. Existing post-hoc methods such as logit adjustment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhanliang Wang , Hongzhuo Chen , Quan Minh Nguyen , Mian Umair Ahsan , Kai Wang

In the real world, long-tailed data distributions are prevalent, making it challenging for models to effectively learn and classify tail classes. However, we discover that in the field of drug chemistry, certain tail classes exhibit higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yujia Su , Xinjie Li , Lionel Z. Wang

Deep models trained on long-tailed datasets exhibit unsatisfactory performance on tail classes. Existing methods usually modify the classification loss to increase the learning focus on tail classes, which unexpectedly sacrifice the…

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