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The world is long-tailed. What does this mean for computer vision and visual recognition? The main two implications are (1) the number of categories we need to consider in applications can be very large, and (2) the number of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Grant Van Horn , Pietro Perona

Exemplar-free Class Incremental Learning (EFCIL) aims to learn from a sequence of tasks without having access to previous task data. In this paper, we consider the challenging Cold Start scenario in which insufficient data is available in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Simone Magistri , Tomaso Trinci , Albin Soutif-Cormerais , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique that enables a large amount of edge computing devices to collaboratively train a global learning model. Due to privacy concerns, the raw data on devices could not be available for centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Miao Yang , Akitanoshou Wong , Hongbin Zhu , Haifeng Wang , Hua Qian

Large pre-trained language models (LMs) have demonstrated remarkable ability as few-shot learners. However, their success hinges largely on scaling model parameters to a degree that makes it challenging to train and serve. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Sinong Wang , Han Fang , Madian Khabsa , Hanzi Mao , Hao Ma

For object detection detectors, enhancing model performance hinges on the ability to simultaneously consider inconsistencies across tasks and focus on difficult-to-train samples. Achieving this necessitates incorporating information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yanquan Huang , Liu Wei Zhen , Yun Hao , Mengyuan Zhang , Qingyao Wu , Zikun Deng , Xueming Liu , Hong Deng

The successful application of semantic segmentation technology in the real world has been among the most exciting achievements in the computer vision community over the past decade. Although the long-tailed phenomenon has been investigated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Shan Li , Lu Yang , Pu Cao , Liulei Li , Huadong Ma

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative machine learning across distributed data owners, but data heterogeneity poses a challenge for model calibration. While prior work focused on improving accuracy for non-iid data, calibration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongyi Peng , Han Yu , Xiaoli Tang , Xiaoxiao Li

Benchmark datasets for visual recognition assume that data is uniformly distributed, while real-world datasets obey long-tailed distribution. Current approaches handle the long-tailed problem to transform the long-tailed dataset to uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Renhui Zhang , Tiancheng Lin , Rui Zhang , Yi Xu

Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) requires identifying novel classes from unlabeled data while retaining knowledge of known classes over time. Existing methods typically update classifier weights dynamically, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , SongLin Dong , Yuhang He , Shaokun Wang , Qiang Wang , Yihong Gong

Although contrastive learning methods have shown prevailing performance on a variety of representation learning tasks, they encounter difficulty when the training dataset is long-tailed. Many researchers have combined contrastive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Min-Kook Suh , Seung-Woo Seo

Deep learning has achieved remarkable accuracy in medical image segmentation, particularly for larger structures with well-defined boundaries. However, its effectiveness can be challenged by factors such as irregular object shapes and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Md Rakibul Islam , Riad Hassan , Abdullah Nazib , Kien Nguyen , Clinton Fookes , Md Zahidul Islam

The long-tailed distribution datasets poses great challenges for deep learning based classification models on how to handle the class imbalance problem. Existing solutions usually involve class-balacing strategies or transfer learing from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Gongzhe Li , Zhiwen Tan , Linpeng Pan

Facial age estimation is an important yet very challenging problem in computer vision. To improve the performance of facial age estimation, we first formulate a simple standard baseline and build a much strong one by collecting the tricks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zenghao Bao , Zichang Tan , Yu Zhu , Jun Wan , Xibo Ma , Zhen Lei , Guodong Guo

Long-tailed recognition is ubiquitous and challenging in deep learning and even in the downstream finetuning of foundation models, since the skew class distribution generally prevents the model generalization to the tail classes. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jiaan Luo , Feng Hong , Qiang Hu , Xiaofeng Cao , Feng Liu , Jiangchao Yao

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-protected machine learning paradigm that allows model to be trained directly at the edge without uploading data. One of the biggest challenges faced by FL in practical applications is the heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zirui Zhu , Ziyi Ye

Federated learning (FL) provides a decentralized machine learning paradigm where a server collaborates with a group of clients to learn a global model without accessing the clients' data. User heterogeneity is a significant challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jiangming Shi , Shanshan Zheng , Xiangbo Yin , Yang Lu , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

Real-world data often exhibits long tail distributions with heavy class imbalance, where the majority classes can dominate the training process and alter the decision boundaries of the minority classes. Recently, researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Tianhong Li , Peng Cao , Yuan Yuan , Lijie Fan , Yuzhe Yang , Rogerio Feris , Piotr Indyk , Dina Katabi

Edge detection is among the most fundamental vision problems for its role in perceptual grouping and its wide applications. Recent advances in representation learning have led to considerable improvements in this area. Many state of the art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Zhiding Yu , Weiyang Liu , Yang Zou , Chen Feng , Srikumar Ramalingam , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar , Jan Kautz

Federated Learning (FL) aims at unburdening the training of deep models by distributing computation across multiple devices (clients) while safeguarding data privacy. On top of that, Federated Continual Learning (FCL) also accounts for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Riccardo Salami , Pietro Buzzega , Matteo Mosconi , Mattia Verasani , Simone Calderara

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training while preserving data privacy. Despite its benefits, FL faces challenges with non-identically distributed (non-IID) data, especially in long-tailed scenarios with imbalanced class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Tianle Li , Yongzhi Huang , Linshan Jiang , Qipeng Xie , Chang Liu , Wenfeng Du , Lu Wang , Kaishun Wu