Summary of Beyond Size and Class Balance: Alpha As a New Dataset Quality Metric For Deep Learning, by Josiah Couch et al.
Beyond Size and Class Balance: Alpha as a New Dataset Quality Metric for Deep Learning
by Josiah Couch, Rima Arnaout, Ramy Arnaout
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers investigate how to improve the performance of image classification models in medical imaging. The current best practice is to use large and well-balanced datasets, but this doesn’t necessarily guarantee diversity. The authors introduce a framework that generalizes familiar quantities like Shannon entropy to account for similarities among images. They analyze thousands of subsets from seven medical datasets and find that the best correlates of performance are not size or class balance, but rather measures of diversity, such as “big alpha” (A0). These measures explain up to 79% of the variance in balanced accuracy, outperforming traditional methods like size-plus-class-balance. The authors propose maximizing A0 as a way to improve deep learning performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, scientists want to make computer programs better at recognizing pictures of medical images. They think that using lots of different pictures can help, but they’re not sure why or how well it works. So, they come up with new ways to measure how different these pictures are from each other. Then, they test their ideas on thousands of sets of pictures and find that the best way to make the program work better is to use a combination of two new measures. This makes the program perform up to 16% better! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Image classification
