Towards Macro-AUC oriented Imbalanced Multi-Label Continual Learning

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Main Authors: Zhang, Yan, Wu, Guoqiang, Wang, Bingzheng, Pang, Teng, Sun, Haoliang, Yin, Yilong
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author Zhang, Yan
Wu, Guoqiang
Wang, Bingzheng
Pang, Teng
Sun, Haoliang
Yin, Yilong
author_facet Zhang, Yan
Wu, Guoqiang
Wang, Bingzheng
Pang, Teng
Sun, Haoliang
Yin, Yilong
contents In Continual Learning (CL), while existing work primarily focuses on the multi-class classification task, there has been limited research on Multi-Label Learning (MLL). In practice, MLL datasets are often class-imbalanced, making it inherently challenging, a problem that is even more acute in CL. Due to its sensitivity to imbalance, Macro-AUC is an appropriate and widely used measure in MLL. However, there is no research to optimize Macro-AUC in MLCL specifically. To fill this gap, in this paper, we propose a new memory replay-based method to tackle the imbalance issue for Macro-AUC-oriented MLCL. Specifically, inspired by recent theory work, we propose a new Reweighted Label-Distribution-Aware Margin (RLDAM) loss. Furthermore, to be compatible with the RLDAM loss, a new memory-updating strategy named Weight Retain Updating (WRU) is proposed to maintain the numbers of positive and negative instances of the original dataset in memory. Theoretically, we provide superior generalization analyses of the RLDAM-based algorithm in terms of Macro-AUC, separately in batch MLL and MLCL settings. This is the first work to offer theoretical generalization analyses in MLCL to our knowledge. Finally, a series of experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of our method over several baselines. Our codes are available at https://github.com/ML-Group-SDU/Macro-AUC-CL.
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spellingShingle Towards Macro-AUC oriented Imbalanced Multi-Label Continual Learning
Zhang, Yan
Wu, Guoqiang
Wang, Bingzheng
Pang, Teng
Sun, Haoliang
Yin, Yilong
Machine Learning
In Continual Learning (CL), while existing work primarily focuses on the multi-class classification task, there has been limited research on Multi-Label Learning (MLL). In practice, MLL datasets are often class-imbalanced, making it inherently challenging, a problem that is even more acute in CL. Due to its sensitivity to imbalance, Macro-AUC is an appropriate and widely used measure in MLL. However, there is no research to optimize Macro-AUC in MLCL specifically. To fill this gap, in this paper, we propose a new memory replay-based method to tackle the imbalance issue for Macro-AUC-oriented MLCL. Specifically, inspired by recent theory work, we propose a new Reweighted Label-Distribution-Aware Margin (RLDAM) loss. Furthermore, to be compatible with the RLDAM loss, a new memory-updating strategy named Weight Retain Updating (WRU) is proposed to maintain the numbers of positive and negative instances of the original dataset in memory. Theoretically, we provide superior generalization analyses of the RLDAM-based algorithm in terms of Macro-AUC, separately in batch MLL and MLCL settings. This is the first work to offer theoretical generalization analyses in MLCL to our knowledge. Finally, a series of experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of our method over several baselines. Our codes are available at https://github.com/ML-Group-SDU/Macro-AUC-CL.
title Towards Macro-AUC oriented Imbalanced Multi-Label Continual Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18231