Dynamic Correlation Learning and Regularization for Multi-Label Confidence Calibration

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Autores principales: Chen, Tianshui, Wang, Weihang, Pu, Tao, Qin, Jinghui, Yang, Zhijing, Liu, Jie, Lin, Liang
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author Chen, Tianshui
Wang, Weihang
Pu, Tao
Qin, Jinghui
Yang, Zhijing
Liu, Jie
Lin, Liang
author_facet Chen, Tianshui
Wang, Weihang
Pu, Tao
Qin, Jinghui
Yang, Zhijing
Liu, Jie
Lin, Liang
contents Modern visual recognition models often display overconfidence due to their reliance on complex deep neural networks and one-hot target supervision, resulting in unreliable confidence scores that necessitate calibration. While current confidence calibration techniques primarily address single-label scenarios, there is a lack of focus on more practical and generalizable multi-label contexts. This paper introduces the Multi-Label Confidence Calibration (MLCC) task, aiming to provide well-calibrated confidence scores in multi-label scenarios. Unlike single-label images, multi-label images contain multiple objects, leading to semantic confusion and further unreliability in confidence scores. Existing single-label calibration methods, based on label smoothing, fail to account for category correlations, which are crucial for addressing semantic confusion, thereby yielding sub-optimal performance. To overcome these limitations, we propose the Dynamic Correlation Learning and Regularization (DCLR) algorithm, which leverages multi-grained semantic correlations to better model semantic confusion for adaptive regularization. DCLR learns dynamic instance-level and prototype-level similarities specific to each category, using these to measure semantic correlations across different categories. With this understanding, we construct adaptive label vectors that assign higher values to categories with strong correlations, thereby facilitating more effective regularization. We establish an evaluation benchmark, re-implementing several advanced confidence calibration algorithms and applying them to leading multi-label recognition (MLR) models for fair comparison. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the superior performance of DCLR over existing methods in providing reliable confidence scores in multi-label scenarios.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Correlation Learning and Regularization for Multi-Label Confidence Calibration
Chen, Tianshui
Wang, Weihang
Pu, Tao
Qin, Jinghui
Yang, Zhijing
Liu, Jie
Lin, Liang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Modern visual recognition models often display overconfidence due to their reliance on complex deep neural networks and one-hot target supervision, resulting in unreliable confidence scores that necessitate calibration. While current confidence calibration techniques primarily address single-label scenarios, there is a lack of focus on more practical and generalizable multi-label contexts. This paper introduces the Multi-Label Confidence Calibration (MLCC) task, aiming to provide well-calibrated confidence scores in multi-label scenarios. Unlike single-label images, multi-label images contain multiple objects, leading to semantic confusion and further unreliability in confidence scores. Existing single-label calibration methods, based on label smoothing, fail to account for category correlations, which are crucial for addressing semantic confusion, thereby yielding sub-optimal performance. To overcome these limitations, we propose the Dynamic Correlation Learning and Regularization (DCLR) algorithm, which leverages multi-grained semantic correlations to better model semantic confusion for adaptive regularization. DCLR learns dynamic instance-level and prototype-level similarities specific to each category, using these to measure semantic correlations across different categories. With this understanding, we construct adaptive label vectors that assign higher values to categories with strong correlations, thereby facilitating more effective regularization. We establish an evaluation benchmark, re-implementing several advanced confidence calibration algorithms and applying them to leading multi-label recognition (MLR) models for fair comparison. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the superior performance of DCLR over existing methods in providing reliable confidence scores in multi-label scenarios.
title Dynamic Correlation Learning and Regularization for Multi-Label Confidence Calibration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06844