Uncertainty-aware Sampling for Long-tailed Semi-supervised Learning

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Autores principales: Yang, Kuo, Li, Duo, Hu, Menghan, Zhai, Guangtao, Yang, Xiaokang, Zhang, Xiao-Ping
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Publicado: 2024
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author Yang, Kuo
Li, Duo
Hu, Menghan
Zhai, Guangtao
Yang, Xiaokang
Zhang, Xiao-Ping
author_facet Yang, Kuo
Li, Duo
Hu, Menghan
Zhai, Guangtao
Yang, Xiaokang
Zhang, Xiao-Ping
contents For semi-supervised learning with imbalance classes, the long-tailed distribution of data will increase the model prediction bias toward dominant classes, undermining performance on less frequent classes. Existing methods also face challenges in ensuring the selection of sufficiently reliable pseudo-labels for model training and there is a lack of mechanisms to adjust the selection of more reliable pseudo-labels based on different training stages. To mitigate this issue, we introduce uncertainty into the modeling process for pseudo-label sampling, taking into account that the model performance on the tailed classes varies over different training stages. For example, at the early stage of model training, the limited predictive accuracy of model results in a higher rate of uncertain pseudo-labels. To counter this, we propose an Uncertainty-Aware Dynamic Threshold Selection (UDTS) approach. This approach allows the model to perceive the uncertainty of pseudo-labels at different training stages, thereby adaptively adjusting the selection thresholds for different classes. Compared to other methods such as the baseline method FixMatch, UDTS achieves an increase in accuracy of at least approximately 5.26%, 1.75%, 9.96%, and 1.28% on the natural scene image datasets CIFAR10-LT, CIFAR100-LT, STL-10-LT, and the medical image dataset TissueMNIST, respectively. The source code of UDTS is publicly available at: https://github.com/yangk/UDTS.
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spellingShingle Uncertainty-aware Sampling for Long-tailed Semi-supervised Learning
Yang, Kuo
Li, Duo
Hu, Menghan
Zhai, Guangtao
Yang, Xiaokang
Zhang, Xiao-Ping
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
For semi-supervised learning with imbalance classes, the long-tailed distribution of data will increase the model prediction bias toward dominant classes, undermining performance on less frequent classes. Existing methods also face challenges in ensuring the selection of sufficiently reliable pseudo-labels for model training and there is a lack of mechanisms to adjust the selection of more reliable pseudo-labels based on different training stages. To mitigate this issue, we introduce uncertainty into the modeling process for pseudo-label sampling, taking into account that the model performance on the tailed classes varies over different training stages. For example, at the early stage of model training, the limited predictive accuracy of model results in a higher rate of uncertain pseudo-labels. To counter this, we propose an Uncertainty-Aware Dynamic Threshold Selection (UDTS) approach. This approach allows the model to perceive the uncertainty of pseudo-labels at different training stages, thereby adaptively adjusting the selection thresholds for different classes. Compared to other methods such as the baseline method FixMatch, UDTS achieves an increase in accuracy of at least approximately 5.26%, 1.75%, 9.96%, and 1.28% on the natural scene image datasets CIFAR10-LT, CIFAR100-LT, STL-10-LT, and the medical image dataset TissueMNIST, respectively. The source code of UDTS is publicly available at: https://github.com/yangk/UDTS.
title Uncertainty-aware Sampling for Long-tailed Semi-supervised Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04435