Summary of Class-wise Autoencoders Measure Classification Difficulty and Detect Label Mistakes, by Jacob Marks et al.
Class-wise Autoencoders Measure Classification Difficulty And Detect Label Mistakes
by Jacob Marks, Brent A. Griffin, Jason J. Corso
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed framework analyzes classification datasets by comparing reconstruction errors between autoencoders trained on individual classes. This approach enables the characterization of datasets at the sample, class, and overall levels. The authors introduce reconstruction error ratios (RERs) that assess classification difficulty, decomposing it into finite sample size, Bayes error, and decision-boundary complexity. The framework is evaluated across 19 popular visual datasets, revealing a strong correlation between RERs and state-of-the-art model performance. Additionally, the authors demonstrate the effectiveness of RERs in detecting mislabeled data under symmetric and asymmetric label noise. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a new way to understand how hard it is for a computer to correctly classify pictures or other visual data. The researchers compare how well a special type of AI model called an autoencoder can reconstruct each image, and then use those results to figure out why some images are harder to classify than others. They test this approach on many different datasets and find that it’s very good at predicting which images will be tricky for even the best computer models to get right. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Classification
