Summary of Counterfactual Reasoning For Multi-label Image Classification Via Patching-based Training, by Ming-kun Xie et al.
Counterfactual Reasoning for Multi-Label Image Classification via Patching-Based Training
by Ming-Kun Xie, Jia-Hao Xiao, Pei Peng, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama, Sheng-Jun Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Apr 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 The paper proposes a causal inference framework for multi-label image classification (MLC) to improve model performance by leveraging label correlations while avoiding overfitting. The framework recognizes co-occurrence relationships as mediators, which have both positive and negative impacts on model predictions. A counterfactual reasoning method is introduced to measure the total direct effect caused only by the target object, mitigating the negative impact of co-occurring objects. Patching-based training and inference are proposed to identify the pivot patch containing the target object. Experimental results demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmark datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us understand how to improve image classification by using information about what’s in the picture, like other objects or things. It shows that this kind of information can both help and hurt our predictions. To fix this problem, it suggests a new way to look at images, breaking them up into smaller parts to find the most important part that contains what we’re trying to classify. This approach is tested on different datasets and does well. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Image classification * Inference * Overfitting
