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Learning-based solutions for long-tailed recognition face difficulties in generalizing on balanced test datasets. Due to imbalanced data prior, the learned \textit{a posteriori} distribution is biased toward the most frequent (head)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 S Divakar Bhat , Amit More , Mudit Soni , Surbhi Agrawal

This paper addresses the problem of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) under a long-tailed distribution, which involves discovering novel categories in an unlabelled dataset using knowledge from a set of labelled categories. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Bingchen Zhao , Kai Han

Learning from imbalanced data is one of the most significant challenges in real-world classification tasks. In such cases, neural networks performance is substantially impaired due to preference towards the majority class. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-13 Bronislav Yasinnik , Moshe Salhov , Ofir Lindenbaum , Amir Averbuch

Long-tail learning has garnered widespread attention and achieved significant progress in recent times. However, even with pre-trained prior knowledge, models still exhibit weaker generalization performance on tail classes. The promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mengke Li , Ye Liu , Yang Lu , Yiqun Zhang , Yiu-ming Cheung , Hui Huang

This paper presents an investigation into long-tail video recognition. We demonstrate that, unlike naturally-collected video datasets and existing long-tail image benchmarks, current video benchmarks fall short on multiple long-tailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Toby Perrett , Saptarshi Sinha , Tilo Burghardt , Majid Mirmehdi , Dima Damen

The fine-tuning paradigm has emerged as a prominent approach for addressing long-tail learning tasks in the era of foundation models. However, the impact of fine-tuning strategies on long-tail learning performance remains unexplored. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jiang-Xin Shi , Tong Wei , Yu-Feng Li

Deep neural networks often degrade significantly when training data suffer from class imbalance problems. Existing approaches, e.g., re-sampling and re-weighting, commonly address this issue by rearranging the label distribution of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Renzhen Wang , Kaiqin Hu , Yanwen Zhu , Jun Shu , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Extreme value theory provides rigorous theory and statistical tools for extrapolation in machine learning, particularly in settings where traditional methods struggle due to data scarcity in the tails. A broad range of tasks benefit from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-05 Sebastian Engelke , Nicola Gnecco , Anne Sabourin

Computer vision tasks are traditionally defined and evaluated using semantic categories. However, it is known to the field that semantic classes do not necessarily correspond to a unique visual class (e.g. inside and outside of a car).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Hossein Azizpour , Stefan Carlsson

Learning generalizable representation and classifier for class-imbalanced data is challenging for data-driven deep models. Most studies attempt to re-balance the data distribution, which is prone to overfitting on tail classes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Recent studies on Neural Collapse (NC) reveal that, under class-balanced conditions, the class feature means and classifier weights spontaneously align into a simplex equiangular tight frame (ETF). In long-tailed regimes, however, severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jinping Wang , Zhiqiang Gao , Zhiwu Xie

When trained with severely imbalanced data, deep neural networks often struggle to accurately recognize classes with only a few samples. Previous studies in long-tailed recognition have attempted to rebalance biased learning using known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Minseok Son , Inyong Koo , Jinyoung Park , Changick Kim

We target open-world feature extrapolation problem where the feature space of input data goes through expansion and a model trained on partially observed features needs to handle new features in test data without further retraining. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Qitian Wu , Chenxiao Yang , Junchi Yan

Class imbalance is a common challenge in real-world recognition tasks, where the majority of classes have few samples, also known as tail classes. We address this challenge with the perspective of generalization and empirically find that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yixuan Zhou , Yi Qu , Xing Xu , Hengtao Shen

Long-tail learning is the problem of learning under skewed label distributions, which pose a challenge for standard learners. Several recent approaches for the problem have proposed enforcing a suitable margin in logit space. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Wittawat Jitkrittum , Aditya Krishna Menon , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sanjiv Kumar

Most existing state-of-the-art video classification methods assume that the training data obey a uniform distribution. However, video data in the real world typically exhibit an imbalanced long-tailed class distribution, resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yufan Hu , Junyu Gao , Changsheng Xu

Data augmentation for minority classes is an effective strategy for long-tailed recognition, thus developing a large number of methods. Although these methods all ensure the balance in sample quantity, the quality of the augmented samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Enhao Zhang , Chuanxing Geng , Songcan Chen

Today, scene graph generation(SGG) task is largely limited in realistic scenarios, mainly due to the extremely long-tailed bias of predicate annotation distribution. Thus, tackling the class imbalance trouble of SGG is critical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Shaotian Yan , Chen Shen , Zhongming Jin , Jianqiang Huang , Rongxin Jiang , Yaowu Chen , Xian-Sheng Hua

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 visual recognition problems often exhibit long-tailed distributions, where the amount of data for learning in different categories shows significant imbalance. Standard classification models learned on such data distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Lvlong Lai , Henghui Ding , Qingyao Wu