2023/10/12 by Jinye Yang, Yang, Jinye, Ji Xu +5
Computer Science · Health Professions · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques #Machine Learning and ELM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.08206
openalex publication_date 2023/10/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Long-tailed (LT) classification is an unavoidable and challenging problem in the real world. Most existing long-tailed classification methods focus only on solving the class-wise imbalance while ignoring the attribute-wise imbalance. The deviation of a classification model is caused by both class-wise and attribute-wise imbalance. Due to the fact that attributes are implicit in most datasets and the combination of attributes is complex, attribute-wise imbalance is more difficult to handle. For this purpose, we proposed a novel long-tailed classification framework, aiming to build a multi-granularity classification model by means of invariant feature learning. This method first unsupervisedly constructs Coarse-Grained forest (CLF) to better characterize the distribution of attributes within a class. Depending on the distribution of attributes, one can customize suitable sampling strategies to construct different imbalanced datasets. We then introduce multi-center loss (MCL) that aims to gradually eliminate confusing attributes during feature learning process. The proposed framework does not necessarily couple to a specific LT classification model structure and can be integrated with any existing LT method as an independent component. Extensive experiments show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on both existing benchmarks ImageNet-GLT and MSCOCO-GLT and can improve the performance of existing LT methods. Our codes are available on GitHub: \urlhttps://github.com/jinyery/cognisance