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The foundational concept of Max-Margin in machine learning is ill-posed for output spaces with more than two labels such as in structured prediction. In this paper, we show that the Max-Margin loss can only be consistent to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Alex Nowak-Vila , Alessandro Rudi , Francis Bach

Real world data often have a long-tailed and open-ended distribution. A practical recognition system must classify among majority and minority classes, generalize from a few known instances, and acknowledge novelty upon a never seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Ziwei Liu , Zhongqi Miao , Xiaohang Zhan , Jiayun Wang , Boqing Gong , Stella X. Yu

Real-world data tends to follow a long-tailed distribution, where the class imbalance results in dominance of the head classes during training. In this paper, we propose a frustratingly simple but effective step-wise learning framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Na Dong , Yongqiang Zhang , Mingli Ding , Gim Hee Lee

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

Object detection is an important task in computer vision which serves a lot of real-world applications such as autonomous driving, surveillance and robotics. Along with the rapid thrive of large-scale data, numerous state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Trong Huy Phan , Kazuma Yamamoto

Real-world data is often unbalanced and long-tailed, but deep models struggle to recognize rare classes in the presence of frequent classes. To address unbalanced data, most studies try balancing the data, the loss, or the classifier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Dvir Samuel , Gal Chechik

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

Natural data are often long-tail distributed over semantic classes. Existing recognition methods tackle this imbalanced classification by placing more emphasis on the tail data, through class re-balancing/re-weighting or ensembling over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xudong Wang , Long Lian , Zhongqi Miao , Ziwei Liu , Stella X. Yu

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

Anomaly detection is crucial in industrial applications for identifying rare and unseen patterns to ensure system reliability. Traditional models, trained on a single class of normal data, struggle with real-world distributions where normal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-07 Jungi Lee , Jungkwon Kim , Chi Zhang , Sangmin Kim , Kwangsun Yoo , Seok-Joo Byun

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) utilizes labeled samples of known classes to discover novel classes in unlabeled samples. Existing methods show effective performance on artificial datasets with balanced distributions. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Cuong Manh Hoang

Long-tailed data is still a big challenge for deep neural networks, even though they have achieved great success on balanced data. We observe that vanilla training on long-tailed data with cross-entropy loss makes the instance-rich head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung , Yang Lu

Long-tailed multi-label visual recognition (LTML) task is a highly challenging task due to the label co-occurrence and imbalanced data distribution. In this work, we propose a unified framework for LTML, namely prompt tuning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Peng Xia , Di Xu , Ming Hu , Lie Ju , Zongyuan Ge

Scene text detection has seen the emergence of high-performing methods that excel on academic benchmarks. However, these detectors often fail to replicate such success in real-world scenarios. We uncover two key factors contributing to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tianjiao Cao , Jiahao Lyu , Weichao Zeng , Weimin Mu , Yu Zhou

Pre-training plays a vital role in various vision tasks, such as object recognition and detection. Commonly used pre-training methods, which typically rely on randomized approaches like uniform or Gaussian distributions to initialize model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Chen-Long Duan , Yong Li , Xiu-Shen Wei , Lin Zhao

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

Long-tailed (LT) classification is an unavoidable and challenging problem in the real world. Most existing long-tailed classification methods focus only on solving the class-wise imbalance while ignoring the attribute-wise imbalance. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jinye Yang , Ji Xu , Di Wu , Jianhang Tang , Shaobo Li , Guoyin Wang

Deep learning enables impressive performance in image recognition using large-scale artificially-balanced datasets. However, real-world datasets exhibit highly class-imbalanced distributions, yielding two main challenges: relative imbalance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Saurabh Sharma , Ning Yu , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Object frequency in the real world often follows a power law, leading to a mismatch between datasets with long-tailed class distributions seen by a machine learning model and our expectation of the model to perform well on all classes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Muhammad Abdullah Jamal , Matthew Brown , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Liqiang Wang , Boqing Gong

Real-world data is extremely imbalanced and presents a long-tailed distribution, resulting in models that are biased towards classes with sufficient samples and perform poorly on rare classes. Recent methods propose to rebalance classes but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Weiqi Li , Fan Lyu , Fanhua Shang , Liang Wan , Wei Feng