Summary of Classes Are Not Equal: An Empirical Study on Image Recognition Fairness, by Jiequan Cui et al.
Classes Are Not Equal: An Empirical Study on Image Recognition Fairness
by Jiequan Cui, Beier Zhu, Xin Wen, Xiaojuan Qi, Bei Yu, Hanwang Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Feb 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 A novel empirical study investigates image recognition fairness, specifically the extreme class accuracy disparity on balanced datasets like ImageNet. The research demonstrates that classes are not equal and fairness issues arise for various image classification models across different datasets, architectures, and model capacities. The findings reveal intriguing properties of fairness, including problematic representation rather than classifier bias, and the origins of this bias during optimization. Models tend to exhibit greater prediction biases for challenging classes, leading to poor accuracy for those classes. Data augmentation and representation learning algorithms improve overall performance by promoting fairness in image classification. The study provides insights into the unfairness issue and its mitigation strategies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Image recognition fairness is an important topic that aims to ensure all classes are recognized equally well. A new study shows that this fairness issue exists for many image classification models, even when they have balanced data like ImageNet. The research finds that the problem lies in how the model represents images rather than its decision-making process. It also discovers that models tend to struggle with recognizing certain classes more than others, which can lead to poor performance. To improve overall recognition accuracy, the study suggests using techniques like data augmentation and representation learning. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Data augmentation * Image classification * Optimization * Representation learning
