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Main Authors: Fiaschi, Lorenzo, Cococcioni, Marco
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16956
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author Fiaschi, Lorenzo
Cococcioni, Marco
author_facet Fiaschi, Lorenzo
Cococcioni, Marco
contents This work proposes a novel approach to the deep hierarchical classification task, i.e., the problem of classifying data according to multiple labels organized in a rigid parent-child structure. It consists in a multi-output deep neural network equipped with specific projection operators placed before each output layer. The design of such an architecture, called lexicographic hybrid deep neural network (LH-DNN), has been possible by combining tools from different and quite distant research fields: lexicographic multi-objective optimization, non-standard analysis, and deep learning. To assess the efficacy of the approach, the resulting network is compared against the B-CNN, a convolutional neural network tailored for hierarchical classification tasks, on the CIFAR10, CIFAR100 (where it has been originally and recently proposed before being adopted and tuned for multiple real-world applications) and Fashion-MNIST benchmarks. Evidence states that an LH-DNN can achieve comparable if not superior performance, especially in the learning of the hierarchical relations, in the face of a drastic reduction of the learning parameters, training epochs, and computational time, without the need for ad-hoc loss functions weighting values.
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spellingShingle Informed deep hierarchical classification: a non-standard analysis inspired approach
Fiaschi, Lorenzo
Cococcioni, Marco
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Logic
03H10, 68T07
I.2.5; I.2.6
This work proposes a novel approach to the deep hierarchical classification task, i.e., the problem of classifying data according to multiple labels organized in a rigid parent-child structure. It consists in a multi-output deep neural network equipped with specific projection operators placed before each output layer. The design of such an architecture, called lexicographic hybrid deep neural network (LH-DNN), has been possible by combining tools from different and quite distant research fields: lexicographic multi-objective optimization, non-standard analysis, and deep learning. To assess the efficacy of the approach, the resulting network is compared against the B-CNN, a convolutional neural network tailored for hierarchical classification tasks, on the CIFAR10, CIFAR100 (where it has been originally and recently proposed before being adopted and tuned for multiple real-world applications) and Fashion-MNIST benchmarks. Evidence states that an LH-DNN can achieve comparable if not superior performance, especially in the learning of the hierarchical relations, in the face of a drastic reduction of the learning parameters, training epochs, and computational time, without the need for ad-hoc loss functions weighting values.
title Informed deep hierarchical classification: a non-standard analysis inspired approach
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Logic
03H10, 68T07
I.2.5; I.2.6
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16956