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Long-tailed relation classification is a challenging problem as the head classes may dominate the training phase, thereby leading to the deterioration of the tail performance. Existing solutions usually address this issue via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Haiyang Yu , Ningyu Zhang , Shumin Deng , Zonggang Yuan , Yantao Jia , Huajun Chen

Real-world data are long-tailed, the lack of tail samples leads to a significant limitation in the generalization ability of the model. Although numerous approaches of class re-balancing perform well for moderate class imbalance problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yanbiao Ma , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Xu Liu , Puhua Chen

Long-tailed datasets, where head classes comprise much more training samples than tail classes, cause recognition models to get biased towards the head classes. Weighted loss is one of the most popular ways of mitigating this issue, and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Saptarshi Sinha , Hiroki Ohashi

Long-tailed datasets are very frequently encountered in real-world use cases where few classes or categories (known as majority or head classes) have higher number of data samples compared to the other classes (known as minority or tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Saptarshi Sinha , Hiroki Ohashi , Katsuyuki Nakamura

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

Main challenges in long-tailed recognition come from the imbalanced data distribution and sample scarcity in its tail classes. While techniques have been proposed to achieve a more balanced training loss and to improve tail classes data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Bo Liu , Haoxiang Li , Hao Kang , Nuno Vasconcelos , Gang Hua

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

Conventional detectors suffer from performance degradation when dealing with long-tailed data due to a classification bias towards the majority head categories. In this paper, we contend that the learning bias originates from two factors:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Tianhao Qi , Hongtao Xie , Pandeng Li , Jiannan Ge , Yongdong Zhang

Food classification serves as the basic step of image-based dietary assessment to predict the types of foods in each input image. However, food image predictions in a real world scenario are usually long-tail distributed among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Jiangpeng He , Luotao Lin , Heather Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

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

Real-world data usually present long-tailed distributions. Training on imbalanced data tends to render neural networks perform well on head classes while much worse on tail classes. The severe sparseness of training instances for the tail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Chaozheng Wang , Shuzheng Gao , Cuiyun Gao , Pengyun Wang , Wenjie Pei , Lujia Pan , Zenglin Xu

Recently computer-aided diagnosis has demonstrated promising performance, effectively alleviating the workload of clinicians. However, the inherent sample imbalance among different diseases leads algorithms biased to the majority…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Li Pan , Yupei Zhang , Qiushi Yang , Tan Li , Zhen Chen

Deep learning algorithms face great challenges with long-tailed data distribution which, however, is quite a common case in real-world scenarios. Previous methods tackle the problem from either the aspect of input space (re-sampling classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Jiequan Cui , Shu Liu , Zhuotao Tian , Zhisheng Zhong , Jiaya Jia

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

Learning discriminative image representations plays a vital role in long-tailed image classification because it can ease the classifier learning in imbalanced cases. Given the promising performance contrastive learning has shown recently in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Peng Wang , Kai Han , Xiu-Shen Wei , Lei Zhang , Lei Wang

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

Recognizing images with long-tailed distributions remains a challenging problem while there lacks an interpretable mechanism to solve this problem. In this study, we formulate Long-tailed recognition as Domain Adaption (LDA), by modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zhiliang Peng , Wei Huang , Zonghao Guo , Xiaosong Zhang , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

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

Object detection has been widely explored for class-balanced datasets such as COCO. However, real-world scenarios introduce the challenge of long-tailed distributions, where numerous categories contain only a few instances. This inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Satyam Gaba

The training datasets used in long-tailed recognition are extremely unbalanced, resulting in significant variation in per-class accuracy across categories. Prior works mostly used average accuracy to evaluate their algorithms, which easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Hao Yu , Yingxiao Du , Jianxin Wu