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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

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

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

Temporal action segmentation in untrimmed procedural videos aims to densely label frames into action classes. These videos inherently exhibit long-tailed distributions, where actions vary widely in frequency and duration. In temporal action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhanzhong Pang , Fadime Sener , Shrinivas Ramasubramanian , Angela Yao

The datasets used for Deep Neural Network training (e.g., ImageNet, MSCOCO, etc.) are often manually balanced across categories (classes) to facilitate learning of all the categories. This curation process is often expensive and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Harsh Rangwani

Long-tailed classification is challenging due to its heavy imbalance in class probabilities. While existing methods often focus on overall accuracy or accuracy for tail classes, they overlook a critical aspect: certain types of errors can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Bolian Li , Ruqi Zhang

How to estimate the uncertainty of a given model is a crucial problem. Current calibration techniques treat different classes equally and thus implicitly assume that the distribution of training data is balanced, but ignore the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Jiahao Chen , Bing Su

Long-tailed distributions in image recognition pose a considerable challenge due to the severe imbalance between a few dominant classes with numerous examples and many minority classes with few samples. Recently, the use of large generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Guangxi Li , Yinsheng Song , Mingkai Zheng

This paper proposes a new pipeline for long-tail (LT) recognition. Instead of re-weighting or re-sampling, we utilize the long-tailed dataset itself to generate a balanced proxy that can be optimized through cross-entropy (CE).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Jie Shao , Ke Zhu , Hanxiao Zhang , Jianxin Wu

Machine learning models fail to perform well on real-world applications when 1) the category distribution P(Y) of the training dataset suffers from long-tailed distribution and 2) the test data is drawn from different conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Xiao Gu , Yao Guo , Zeju Li , Jianing Qiu , Qi Dou , Yuxuan Liu , Benny Lo , Guang-Zhong Yang

In scenarios with long-tailed distributions, the model's ability to identify tail classes is limited due to the under-representation of tail samples. Class rebalancing, information augmentation, and other techniques have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yanbiao Ma , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Xu Liu , Lingling Li

In this work, we analyze the optimization behaviour of common private learning optimization algorithms under heavy-tail class imbalanced distribution. We show that, in a stylized model, optimizing with Gradient Descent with differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Qiaoyue Tang , Alain Zhiyanov , Mathias Lécuyer

Deep learning has achieved remarkable progress for visual recognition on large-scale balanced datasets but still performs poorly on real-world long-tailed data. Previous methods often adopt class re-balanced training strategies to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Tianhao Li , Limin Wang , Gangshan Wu

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

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

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

Long-tail distribution is widely spread in real-world applications. Due to the extremely small ratio of instances, tail categories often show inferior accuracy. In this paper, we find such performance bottleneck is mainly caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jingru Tan , Bo Li , Xin Lu , Yongqiang Yao , Fengwei Yu , Tong He , Wanli Ouyang

Recently, large-scale pre-trained vision-language models have presented benefits for alleviating class imbalance in long-tailed recognition. However, the long-tailed data distribution can corrupt the representation space, where the distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Siming Fu , Xiaoxuan He , Xinpeng Ding , Yuchen Cao , Hualiang Wang

The imbalanced distribution of long-tailed data presents a significant challenge for deep learning models, causing them to prioritize head classes while neglecting tail classes. Two key factors contributing to low recognition accuracy are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mengke Li , Zhikai Hu , Yang Lu , Weichao Lan , Yiu-ming Cheung , Hui Huang

Sequential user behavior modeling plays a crucial role in online user-oriented services, such as product purchasing, news feed consumption, and online advertising. The performance of sequential modeling heavily depends on the scale and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jianwen Yin , Chenghao Liu , Weiqing Wang , Jianling Sun , Steven C. H. Hoi