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New BS-cRT Method Boosts Long-Tailed Recognition Accuracy

Researchers have developed a new baseline method called BS-cRT for long-tailed recognition tasks, which aims to improve accuracy by retraining only the classifier after initial training. This two-stage procedure involves training a backbone and cosine classifier with Balanced Softmax, then freezing the backbone and updating only the classifier on balanced episodic batches. The BS-cRT method consistently enhances few-shot accuracy across various datasets like CIFAR-100-LT, CIFAR-10-LT, ImageNet-LT, and Places-LT, showing significant gains, particularly at higher imbalance factors. AI

IMPACT This research offers a practical baseline for improving AI's ability to recognize rare classes in datasets, potentially enhancing performance in real-world applications with imbalanced data.

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New BS-cRT Method Boosts Long-Tailed Recognition Accuracy

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Juan Terven, Diana Margarita C\'ordova Esparza, Julio Alejandro Romero Gonzalez, Edgar Arturo Ch\'avez Urbiola, Francisco Javier Willars Rodriguez, Juan Bautista Hurtado Ramos, Alfonso Ramirez Pedraza ·

    A Strong Balanced-Softmax Classifier-Retraining Baseline for Long-Tailed Recognition

    arXiv:2607.09832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-tailed recognition methods often modify losses, margins, or representations to reduce the dominance of frequent classes. We ask whether, after Balanced Softmax training, the remaining tail error can be reduced by retraining onl…