Calibrating Biased Distribution in VFM-derived Latent Space via Cross-Domain Geometric Consistency

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Hauptverfasser: Ma, Yanbiao, Dai, Wei, Liu, Bowei, Chen, Jiayi, Huang, Wenke, Wan, Guancheng, Lu, Zhiwu, Yan, Junchi
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author Ma, Yanbiao
Dai, Wei
Liu, Bowei
Chen, Jiayi
Huang, Wenke
Wan, Guancheng
Lu, Zhiwu
Yan, Junchi
author_facet Ma, Yanbiao
Dai, Wei
Liu, Bowei
Chen, Jiayi
Huang, Wenke
Wan, Guancheng
Lu, Zhiwu
Yan, Junchi
contents Despite the fast progress of deep learning, one standing challenge is the gap of the observed training samples and the underlying true distribution. There are multiple reasons for the causing of this gap e.g. sampling bias, noise etc. In the era of foundation models, we show that when leveraging the off-the-shelf (vision) foundation models (e.g., CLIP, DINOv2) for feature extraction, the geometric shapes of the resulting feature distributions exhibit remarkable transferability across domains and datasets. To verify its practical usefulness, we embody our geometric knowledge-guided distribution calibration framework in two popular and challenging settings: federated learning and long-tailed recognition. In the federated setting, we devise a technique of acquiring the global geometric shape under privacy constraints, then leverage this knowledge to generate new samples for clients, in the aim of bridging the gap between local and global observations. In long-tailed learning, it utilizes the geometric knowledge transferred from sample-rich categories to recover the true distribution for sample-scarce tail classes. Comprehensive experiments show that our proposed geometric knowledge-guided distribution calibration effectively overcomes information deficits caused by data heterogeneity and sample imbalance, with boosted performance across benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Calibrating Biased Distribution in VFM-derived Latent Space via Cross-Domain Geometric Consistency
Ma, Yanbiao
Dai, Wei
Liu, Bowei
Chen, Jiayi
Huang, Wenke
Wan, Guancheng
Lu, Zhiwu
Yan, Junchi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Despite the fast progress of deep learning, one standing challenge is the gap of the observed training samples and the underlying true distribution. There are multiple reasons for the causing of this gap e.g. sampling bias, noise etc. In the era of foundation models, we show that when leveraging the off-the-shelf (vision) foundation models (e.g., CLIP, DINOv2) for feature extraction, the geometric shapes of the resulting feature distributions exhibit remarkable transferability across domains and datasets. To verify its practical usefulness, we embody our geometric knowledge-guided distribution calibration framework in two popular and challenging settings: federated learning and long-tailed recognition. In the federated setting, we devise a technique of acquiring the global geometric shape under privacy constraints, then leverage this knowledge to generate new samples for clients, in the aim of bridging the gap between local and global observations. In long-tailed learning, it utilizes the geometric knowledge transferred from sample-rich categories to recover the true distribution for sample-scarce tail classes. Comprehensive experiments show that our proposed geometric knowledge-guided distribution calibration effectively overcomes information deficits caused by data heterogeneity and sample imbalance, with boosted performance across benchmarks.
title Calibrating Biased Distribution in VFM-derived Latent Space via Cross-Domain Geometric Consistency
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13518