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Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in bearing fault diagnosis. However, its performance oftentimes deteriorates when dealing with highly imbalanced or long-tailed data, while such cases are prevalent in industrial settings…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Wei-En Yu , Jinwei Sun , Shiping Zhang , Xiaoge Zhang , Jing-Xiao Liao

Class imbalance and noisy labels are the norm rather than the exception in many large-scale classification datasets. Nevertheless, most works in machine learning typically assume balanced and clean data. There have been some recent attempts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Shyamgopal Karthik , Jérome Revaud , Boris Chidlovskii

In the context of long-tail classification on graphs, the vast majority of existing work primarily revolves around the development of model debiasing strategies, intending to mitigate class imbalances and enhance the overall performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Haohui Wang , Baoyu Jing , Kaize Ding , Yada Zhu , Wei Cheng , Si Zhang , Yonghui Fan , Liqing Zhang , Dawei Zhou

Imbalanced classification datasets pose significant challenges in machine learning, often leading to biased models that perform poorly on underrepresented classes. With the rise of foundation models, recent research has focused on the full,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Nakul Sharma

Conventional knowledge distillation, designed for model compression, fails on long-tailed distributions because the teacher model tends to be biased toward head classes and provides limited supervision for tail classes. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Seonghak Kim

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

In this paper, our goal is to design a simple learning paradigm for long-tail visual recognition, which not only improves the robustness of the feature extractor but also alleviates the bias of the classifier towards head classes while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Fei Du , Peng Yang , Qi Jia , Fengtao Nan , Xiaoting Chen , Yun Yang

Long-tailed recognition suffers from a persistent head--tail trade-off: improving tail performance often degrades head accuracy and can increase training instability. Despite strong empirical results from re-weighting, decoupled training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chang Chu , Qingyue Zhang , Shao-Lun Huang , Junxiong Zheng

Data is the foundation for the development of computer vision, and the establishment of datasets plays an important role in advancing the techniques of fine-grained visual categorization~(FGVC). In the existing FGVC datasets used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Shuo Ye , Shiming Chen , Ruxin Wang , Tianxu Wu , Jiamiao Xu , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Owing to their remarkable learning (and relearning) capabilities, deep neural networks (DNNs) find use in numerous real-world applications. However, the learning of these data-driven machine learning models is generally as good as the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mahum Naseer , Muhammad Shafique

Real-world datasets often exhibit long-tailed distributions, where a few dominant "Head" classes have abundant samples while most "Tail" classes are severely underrepresented, leading to biased learning and poor generalization for the Tail.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Mahdiyar Molahasani , Michael Greenspan , Ali Etemad

Data collected from the real world typically exhibit long-tailed distributions, where frequent classes contain abundant data while rare ones have only a limited number of samples. While existing supervised learning approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Ci-Siang Lin , Min-Hung Chen , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Class imbalance is a common problem in the case of real-world object detection and classification tasks. Data of some classes is abundant making them an over-represented majority, and data of other classes is scarce, making them an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Mohammed Bennamoun , Ferdous Sohel , Roberto Togneri

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

Bayesian decision theory advocates the Bayes classifier as the optimal approach for minimizing the risk in machine learning problems. Current deep learning algorithms usually solve for the optimal classifier by \emph{implicitly} estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Chaoqun Du , Yulin Wang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Graph classification, aiming at learning the graph-level representations for effective class assignments, has received outstanding achievements, which heavily relies on high-quality datasets that have balanced class distribution. In fact,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Siyu Yi , Zhengyang Mao , Wei Ju , Yongdao Zhou , Luchen Liu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

The distribution of data in the world (eg, internet, etc.) significantly differs from the well-curated datasets and is often over-populated with samples from common categories. The algorithms designed for well-curated datasets perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Harsh Rangwani

The visual world naturally exhibits an imbalance in the number of object or scene instances resulting in a \emph{long-tailed distribution}. This imbalance poses significant challenges for classification models based on deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Rahul Vigneswaran , Marc T. Law , Vineeth N. Balasubramanian , Makarand Tapaswi

We propose a distance supervised relation extraction approach for long-tailed, imbalanced data which is prevalent in real-world settings. Here, the challenge is to learn accurate "few-shot" models for classes existing at the tail of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Ningyu Zhang , Shumin Deng , Zhanlin Sun , Guanying Wang , Xi Chen , Wei Zhang , Huajun Chen

Massive classification, a classification task defined over a vast number of classes (hundreds of thousands or even millions), has become an essential part of many real-world systems, such as face recognition. Existing methods, including the…

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