Summary of Data-free Generative Replay For Class-incremental Learning on Imbalanced Data, by Sohaib Younis and Bernhard Seeger
Data-Free Generative Replay for Class-Incremental Learning on Imbalanced Data
by Sohaib Younis, Bernhard Seeger
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to class incremental learning for image classification tasks with imbalanced datasets is proposed, addressing the challenges of rehearsal-based methods that require access to previous data. The paper introduces Data-Free Generative Replay (DFGR), a generator-trained method without access to real data. Instead, DFGR uses mean and variance statistics of batch-norm and feature maps derived from a pre-trained classification model. The results show significant improvements over other data-free methods, achieving up to 88.5% accuracy on MNIST and 46.6% accuracy on FashionMNIST datasets. The proposed approach is demonstrated to be effective for class incremental learning with imbalanced data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to teach a computer to recognize different types of objects in images. This task gets even harder when the computer needs to learn new object categories over time. A common challenge in this type of machine learning problem is dealing with unevenly distributed data, where some object classes have much more examples than others. One way to solve this issue is by using previously stored data, but this might not be feasible due to storage or access constraints. Researchers have developed various methods to overcome these limitations, but they don’t always produce the best results. This paper presents a new approach called Data-Free Generative Replay (DFGR) that trains a generator without needing the original images. The results show that DFGR outperforms other methods and can accurately recognize objects in images. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Image classification » Machine learning
