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Main Authors: Aimar, Emanuel Sanchez, Helgesen, Nathaniel, Xu, Yonghao, Kuhlmann, Marco, Felsberg, Michael
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04621
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author Aimar, Emanuel Sanchez
Helgesen, Nathaniel
Xu, Yonghao
Kuhlmann, Marco
Felsberg, Michael
author_facet Aimar, Emanuel Sanchez
Helgesen, Nathaniel
Xu, Yonghao
Kuhlmann, Marco
Felsberg, Michael
contents Long-tailed semi-supervised learning (LTSSL) represents a practical scenario for semi-supervised applications, challenged by skewed labeled distributions that bias classifiers. This problem is often aggravated by discrepancies between labeled and unlabeled class distributions, leading to biased pseudo-labels, neglect of rare classes, and poorly calibrated probabilities. To address these issues, we introduce Flexible Distribution Alignment (FlexDA), a novel adaptive logit-adjusted loss framework designed to dynamically estimate and align predictions with the actual distribution of unlabeled data and achieve a balanced classifier by the end of training. FlexDA is further enhanced by a distillation-based consistency loss, promoting fair data usage across classes and effectively leveraging underconfident samples. This method, encapsulated in ADELLO (Align and Distill Everything All at Once), proves robust against label shift, significantly improves model calibration in LTSSL contexts, and surpasses previous state-of-of-art approaches across multiple benchmarks, including CIFAR100-LT, STL10-LT, and ImageNet127, addressing class imbalance challenges in semi-supervised learning. Our code is available at https://github.com/emasa/ADELLO-LTSSL.
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spellingShingle Flexible Distribution Alignment: Towards Long-tailed Semi-supervised Learning with Proper Calibration
Aimar, Emanuel Sanchez
Helgesen, Nathaniel
Xu, Yonghao
Kuhlmann, Marco
Felsberg, Michael
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Long-tailed semi-supervised learning (LTSSL) represents a practical scenario for semi-supervised applications, challenged by skewed labeled distributions that bias classifiers. This problem is often aggravated by discrepancies between labeled and unlabeled class distributions, leading to biased pseudo-labels, neglect of rare classes, and poorly calibrated probabilities. To address these issues, we introduce Flexible Distribution Alignment (FlexDA), a novel adaptive logit-adjusted loss framework designed to dynamically estimate and align predictions with the actual distribution of unlabeled data and achieve a balanced classifier by the end of training. FlexDA is further enhanced by a distillation-based consistency loss, promoting fair data usage across classes and effectively leveraging underconfident samples. This method, encapsulated in ADELLO (Align and Distill Everything All at Once), proves robust against label shift, significantly improves model calibration in LTSSL contexts, and surpasses previous state-of-of-art approaches across multiple benchmarks, including CIFAR100-LT, STL10-LT, and ImageNet127, addressing class imbalance challenges in semi-supervised learning. Our code is available at https://github.com/emasa/ADELLO-LTSSL.
title Flexible Distribution Alignment: Towards Long-tailed Semi-supervised Learning with Proper Calibration
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04621