Enterprise AI Analysis
Revolutionizing Long-Tailed Learning
Deep neural networks excel with balanced datasets, but real-world data often features 'long-tailed' distributions, where a few 'head' classes dominate, and many 'tail' classes are under-represented. This leads to models overfitting head classes and poor performance on critical tail classes.
Executive Impact
We propose a novel loss reweighting scheme that dynamically adjusts each sample's contribution to the training process. CCAR considers both the model's confidence in its prediction (high vs. low confidence) and the actual frequency of the class (head vs. tail). This allows for a nuanced approach: amplifying learning for uncertain tail-class samples while gently suppressing confident head-class predictions.
CCAR is simple, lightweight, and integrates seamlessly with existing methods. It significantly boosts accuracy across all class frequencies, especially for rare (tail) classes, without altering the fundamental model architecture or inference procedures. This leads to more robust, fair, and generalized AI models, crucial for enterprise applications dealing with real-world data heterogeneity.
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The paper introduces a novel Class-Confidence Aware Reweighting (CCAR) scheme to address long-tailed learning challenges. It adaptively modulates loss contributions based on both prediction confidence and class frequency, ensuring more stable and effective training dynamics.
CCAR is derived from a maximum-entropy perspective, leading to an exponential-family weighting function. This formulation ensures Lipschitz continuity and stable gradient behavior, crucial for robust optimization.
Experimental results on CIFAR-100-LT, ImageNet-LT, and iNaturalist2018 datasets demonstrate significant accuracy improvements, particularly for tail classes, without altering model architecture or inference procedures.
+4.02%
Average Top-1 Accuracy Gain on ImageNet-LT with CE
Enterprise Process Flow
Input Sample (x, y)
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Neural Network Prediction (z)
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Softmax Probability (p)
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Ground-truth Probability (pt)
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Class Frequency (fc)
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Dual-Phase Frequency (fe(pt))
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Adaptive Capacity (ẞc(pt))
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Reweighting Function (Ω(pt, fc))
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Modulated Loss (Ltotal)
| Method | Key Features | Top-1 Accuracy (%) |
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| Cross-Entropy |
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34.84 |
| Focal Loss |
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35.60 |
| Class-Balanced Loss |
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N/A (39.60 @ IF=100) |
| Ours + CE |
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36.12 |
| Balanced Softmax |
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43.30 |
| Ours + BS |
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46.20 |
Tail Class Performance Boost: iNaturalist2018
The CCAR method showed remarkable improvements in tail and medium categories on the iNaturalist2018 dataset. For instance, in the 'Few' category, accuracy increased from 57.20% to 58.12% when using Cross-Entropy, and achieved an overall 70.10% with Balanced Softmax, surpassing the baseline of 69.80%. This demonstrates the effectiveness of CCAR's tail-focused gradient amplification strategy in challenging real-world, highly imbalanced scenarios, enabling more discriminative representation learning for under-represented classes.
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