PLOOD: Partial Label Learning with Out-of-distribution Objects

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Main Authors: Huang, Jintao, Cheung, Yiu-Ming, Vong, Chi-Man
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author Huang, Jintao
Cheung, Yiu-Ming
Vong, Chi-Man
author_facet Huang, Jintao
Cheung, Yiu-Ming
Vong, Chi-Man
contents Existing Partial Label Learning (PLL) methods posit that training and test data adhere to the same distribution, a premise that frequently does not hold in practical application where Out-of-Distribution (OOD) objects are present. We introduce the OODPLL paradigm to tackle this significant yet underexplored issue. And our newly proposed PLOOD framework enables PLL to tackle OOD objects through Positive-Negative Sample Augmented (PNSA) feature learning and Partial Energy (PE)-based label refinement. The PNSA module enhances feature discrimination and OOD recognition by simulating in- and out-of-distribution instances, which employ structured positive and negative sample augmentation, in contrast to conventional PLL methods struggling to distinguish OOD samples. The PE scoring mechanism combines label confidence with energy-based uncertainty estimation, thereby reducing the impact of imprecise supervision and effectively achieving label disambiguation. Experimental results on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, alongside various OOD datasets, demonstrate that conventional PLL methods exhibit substantial degradation in OOD scenarios, underscoring the necessity of incorporating OOD considerations in PLL approaches. Ablation studies show that PNSA feature learning and PE-based label refinement are necessary for PLOOD to work, offering a robust solution for open-set PLL problems.
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spellingShingle PLOOD: Partial Label Learning with Out-of-distribution Objects
Huang, Jintao
Cheung, Yiu-Ming
Vong, Chi-Man
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Existing Partial Label Learning (PLL) methods posit that training and test data adhere to the same distribution, a premise that frequently does not hold in practical application where Out-of-Distribution (OOD) objects are present. We introduce the OODPLL paradigm to tackle this significant yet underexplored issue. And our newly proposed PLOOD framework enables PLL to tackle OOD objects through Positive-Negative Sample Augmented (PNSA) feature learning and Partial Energy (PE)-based label refinement. The PNSA module enhances feature discrimination and OOD recognition by simulating in- and out-of-distribution instances, which employ structured positive and negative sample augmentation, in contrast to conventional PLL methods struggling to distinguish OOD samples. The PE scoring mechanism combines label confidence with energy-based uncertainty estimation, thereby reducing the impact of imprecise supervision and effectively achieving label disambiguation. Experimental results on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, alongside various OOD datasets, demonstrate that conventional PLL methods exhibit substantial degradation in OOD scenarios, underscoring the necessity of incorporating OOD considerations in PLL approaches. Ablation studies show that PNSA feature learning and PE-based label refinement are necessary for PLOOD to work, offering a robust solution for open-set PLL problems.
title PLOOD: Partial Label Learning with Out-of-distribution Objects
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06681