Revising the Problem of Partial Labels from the Perspective of CNNs' Robustness

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Xin, Song, Yuqi, McCurdy, Wyatt, Wang, Xiaofeng, Zuo, Fei
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author Zhang, Xin
Song, Yuqi
McCurdy, Wyatt
Wang, Xiaofeng
Zuo, Fei
author_facet Zhang, Xin
Song, Yuqi
McCurdy, Wyatt
Wang, Xiaofeng
Zuo, Fei
contents Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained increasing popularity and versatility in recent decades, finding applications in diverse domains. These remarkable achievements are greatly attributed to the support of extensive datasets with precise labels. However, annotating image datasets is intricate and complex, particularly in the case of multi-label datasets. Hence, the concept of partial-label setting has been proposed to reduce annotation costs, and numerous corresponding solutions have been introduced. The evaluation methods for these existing solutions have been primarily based on accuracy. That is, their performance is assessed by their predictive accuracy on the test set. However, we insist that such an evaluation is insufficient and one-sided. On one hand, since the quality of the test set has not been evaluated, the assessment results are unreliable. On the other hand, the partial-label problem may also be raised by undergoing adversarial attacks. Therefore, incorporating robustness into the evaluation system is crucial. For this purpose, we first propose two attack models to generate multiple partial-label datasets with varying degrees of label missing rates. Subsequently, we introduce a lightweight partial-label solution using pseudo-labeling techniques and a designed loss function. Then, we employ D-Score to analyze both the proposed and existing methods to determine whether they can enhance robustness while improving accuracy. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that while certain methods may improve accuracy, the enhancement in robustness is not significant, and in some cases, it even diminishes.
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Zhang, Xin
Song, Yuqi
McCurdy, Wyatt
Wang, Xiaofeng
Zuo, Fei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained increasing popularity and versatility in recent decades, finding applications in diverse domains. These remarkable achievements are greatly attributed to the support of extensive datasets with precise labels. However, annotating image datasets is intricate and complex, particularly in the case of multi-label datasets. Hence, the concept of partial-label setting has been proposed to reduce annotation costs, and numerous corresponding solutions have been introduced. The evaluation methods for these existing solutions have been primarily based on accuracy. That is, their performance is assessed by their predictive accuracy on the test set. However, we insist that such an evaluation is insufficient and one-sided. On one hand, since the quality of the test set has not been evaluated, the assessment results are unreliable. On the other hand, the partial-label problem may also be raised by undergoing adversarial attacks. Therefore, incorporating robustness into the evaluation system is crucial. For this purpose, we first propose two attack models to generate multiple partial-label datasets with varying degrees of label missing rates. Subsequently, we introduce a lightweight partial-label solution using pseudo-labeling techniques and a designed loss function. Then, we employ D-Score to analyze both the proposed and existing methods to determine whether they can enhance robustness while improving accuracy. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that while certain methods may improve accuracy, the enhancement in robustness is not significant, and in some cases, it even diminishes.
title Revising the Problem of Partial Labels from the Perspective of CNNs' Robustness
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17630