Summary of Imwa: Iterative Model Weight Averaging Benefits Class-imbalanced Learning Tasks, by Zitong Huang et al.
IMWA: Iterative Model Weight Averaging Benefits Class-Imbalanced Learning Tasks
by Zitong Huang, Ze Chen, Bowen Dong, Chaoqi Liang, Erjin Zhou, Wangmeng Zuo
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- 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 This paper proposes a novel technique called Iterative Model Weight Averaging (IMWA) to improve model performance in class-imbalanced learning tasks. The authors first empirically find that vanilla MWA can benefit from class-imbalanced learning and that performing MWA in early epochs yields better results than later epochs. Building on these findings, IMWA divides the training stage into episodes where multiple models are trained concurrently and then averaged, with each episode’s average model serving as initialization for the next episode. Compared to vanilla MWA, IMWA achieves higher performance improvements at the same computational cost, and can even enhance the performance of methods using Exponential Moving Average (EMA) strategy. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of IMWA on various class-imbalanced learning tasks, including image classification, semi-supervised image classification, and object detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to make machine learning models better for certain types of problems where some classes have much fewer examples than others. They try out different methods and find that one method, called Model Weight Averaging (MWA), can actually help with this problem if done at the right time. The authors then create a new version of MWA called Iterative MWA (IMWA) which does multiple rounds of MWA and finds it works even better. They test IMWA on different types of problems and show that it really helps improve the results. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Image classification * Machine learning * Object detection * Semi supervised
