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| author | Lin, Fudong Yuan, Xu |
| author_facet | Lin, Fudong Yuan, Xu |
| contents | The imbalance (or long-tail) is the nature of many real-world data distributions, which often induces the undesirable bias of deep classification models toward frequent classes, resulting in poor performance for tail classes. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage learning approach to mitigate such a majority-biased tendency while preserving valuable information within datasets. Specifically, the first stage proposes a new representation learning technique from the information theory perspective. This approach is theoretically equivalent to minimizing intra-class distance, yielding an effective and well-separated feature space. The second stage develops a novel sampling strategy that selects mathematically informative instances, able to rectify majority-biased decision boundaries without compromising a model's overall performance. As a result, our approach achieves the state-of-the-art performance across various long-tailed benchmark datasets, validated via extensive experiments. Our code is available at https://github.com/fudong03/BNS_IPDPP. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Long-Tailed Recognition via Information-Preservable Two-Stage Learning Lin, Fudong Yuan, Xu Machine Learning The imbalance (or long-tail) is the nature of many real-world data distributions, which often induces the undesirable bias of deep classification models toward frequent classes, resulting in poor performance for tail classes. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage learning approach to mitigate such a majority-biased tendency while preserving valuable information within datasets. Specifically, the first stage proposes a new representation learning technique from the information theory perspective. This approach is theoretically equivalent to minimizing intra-class distance, yielding an effective and well-separated feature space. The second stage develops a novel sampling strategy that selects mathematically informative instances, able to rectify majority-biased decision boundaries without compromising a model's overall performance. As a result, our approach achieves the state-of-the-art performance across various long-tailed benchmark datasets, validated via extensive experiments. Our code is available at https://github.com/fudong03/BNS_IPDPP. |
| title | Long-Tailed Recognition via Information-Preservable Two-Stage Learning |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08836 |