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New Neural Prior Estimator Learns Class Priors from Latent Representations

Researchers have developed a novel method called the Neural Prior Estimator (NPE) to learn class priors directly from a network's latent representations, rather than relying on explicit class counts. This approach involves attaching lightweight Prior Estimation Modules (PEMs) to the latent space, trained with a logistic objective. Experiments on datasets like CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 demonstrated that NPE-LA, the resulting learned logit correction, is competitive with standard methods and improves performance for minority classes. The technique was also shown to be effective as a recalibration mechanism in dense prediction tasks on STARE and ADE20K datasets. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel technique for handling class imbalance in machine learning models by learning priors from latent representations.

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New Neural Prior Estimator Learns Class Priors from Latent Representations

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Masoud Yavari, Payman Moallem ·

    Neural Prior Estimation: Learning Class Priors from Latent Representations

    arXiv:2602.17853v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Logit adjustment corrects class imbalance using the empirical class prior. We study whether a comparable class-frequency signal can instead be learned from the network representation, without explicitly supplying class counts to…