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The problem of high-dimensional and large-scale representation of visual data is addressed from an unsupervised learning perspective. The emphasis is put on discrete representations, where the description length can be measured in bits and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Sohrab Ferdowsi

Data redundancy is ubiquitous in the inputs and intermediate results of Deep Neural Networks (DNN). It offers many significant opportunities for improving DNN performance and efficiency and has been explored in a large body of work. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Jou-An Chen , Wei Niu , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang , Xipeng Shen

While modern visual recognition systems have made significant advancements, many continue to struggle with the open problem of learning from few exemplars. This paper focuses on the task of object detection in the setting where object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Phi Vu Tran

Deep long-tailed learning aims to train useful deep networks on practical, real-world imbalanced distributions, wherein most labels of the tail classes are associated with a few samples. There has been a large body of work to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Harsh Rangwani , Naman Jaswani , Tejan Karmali , Varun Jampani , R. Venkatesh Babu

Deep classifiers have achieved great success in visual recognition. However, real-world data is long-tailed by nature, leading to the mismatch between training and testing distributions. In this paper, we show that the Softmax function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Jiawei Ren , Cunjun Yu , Shunan Sheng , Xiao Ma , Haiyu Zhao , Shuai Yi , Hongsheng Li

Learning-based techniques, especially advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) for code, have gained considerable popularity in various software engineering (SE) tasks. However, most existing works focus on designing better learning-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Xin Zhou , Kisub Kim , Bowen Xu , Jiakun Liu , DongGyun Han , David Lo

Conventional multi-label classification (MLC) methods assume that all samples are fully labeled and identically distributed. Unfortunately, this assumption is unrealistic in large-scale MLC data that has long-tailed (LT) distribution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Wenqiao Zhang , Changshuo Liu , Lingze Zeng , Beng Chin Ooi , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Real-world imagery is often characterized by a significant imbalance of the number of images per class, leading to long-tailed distributions. An effective and simple approach to long-tailed visual recognition is to learn feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ahmet Iscen , André Araujo , Boqing Gong , Cordelia Schmid

Learning with limited data is one of the biggest problems of machine learning. Current approaches to this issue consist in learning general representations from huge amounts of data before fine-tuning the model on a small dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Grégoire Mialon

A significant challenge in achieving ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence is the limited ability of models to rapidly learn new information in real-world scenarios where data follows long-tailed distributions, all while avoiding forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Modern text-to-image synthesis models have achieved an exceptional level of photorealism, generating high-quality images from arbitrary text descriptions. In light of the impressive synthesis ability, several studies have exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Joonghyuk Shin , Minguk Kang , Jaesik Park

Long-tailed recognition has benefited from foundation models and fine-tuning paradigms, yet existing studies and benchmarks are mainly confined to natural image domains, where pre-training and fine-tuning data share similar distributions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiahao Chen , Bing Su

Training on datasets with long-tailed distributions has been challenging for major recognition tasks such as classification and detection. To deal with this challenge, image resampling is typically introduced as a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Nadine Chang , Zhiding Yu , Yu-Xiong Wang , Anima Anandkumar , Sanja Fidler , Jose M. Alvarez

Real-world datasets are often highly class-imbalanced, which can adversely impact the performance of deep learning models. The majority of research on training neural networks under class imbalance has focused on specialized loss functions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Micah Goldblum , Yucen Lily Li , C. Bayan Bruss , Andrew Gordon Wilson

While generalist robot policies hold significant promise for learning diverse manipulation skills through imitation, their performance is often hindered by the long-tail distribution of training demonstrations. Policies learned on such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Junhong Zhu , Ji Zhang , Jingkuan Song , Lianli Gao , Heng Tao Shen

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

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

Deep learning has excelled in image recognition tasks through neural networks inspired by the human brain. However, the necessity for large models to improve prediction accuracy introduces significant computational demands and extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Taigo Sakai , Kazuhiro Hotta

Real-world training data usually exhibits long-tailed distribution, where several majority classes have a significantly larger number of samples than the remaining minority classes. This imbalance degrades the performance of typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Shuang Li , Kaixiong Gong , Chi Harold Liu , Yulin Wang , Feng Qiao , Xinjing Cheng

Real-world datasets commonly exhibit noisy labels and class imbalance, such as long-tailed distributions. While previous research addresses this issue by differentiating noisy and clean samples, reliance on information from predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ying-Hsuan Wu , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Li Xin , Shin-You Teng , Yi-Kuan Hsieh , Ming-Ching Chang