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New DUO framework tackles deep imbalanced regression with uncertainty optimization

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Researchers have introduced DUO, a novel framework designed to improve deep imbalanced regression tasks. DUO addresses the challenge of heteroscedasticity in long-tailed data by modeling regression targets as conditional Gaussian distributions, explicitly characterizing instance-level predictive uncertainty. This approach transforms uncertainty into a dynamic enhancement signal for tail samples through decoupled mean-variance optimization. Additionally, DUO incorporates a distribution-guided contrastive learning mechanism to refine feature representations and semantic entanglement, demonstrating superior performance on benchmarks like IMDB-WIKI-DIR, AgeDB-DIR, and AAV2-DIR. AI

IMPACT Enhances deep learning models for tasks with imbalanced data, potentially improving accuracy in areas like age estimation and protein activity prediction.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Juncheng Zhou, Jiaxi Lu, Weijing Zeng, Zhong Li, Hao Qi, Jingsong Cui ·

    Beyond Homoscedasticity: Decoupled Uncertainty Optimization for Deep Imbalanced Regression

    arXiv:2609.04995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Imbalanced Regression (DIR) is pervasive in continuous prediction tasks across diverse modalities, such as age estimation, depth prediction, and protein mutation activity prediction, where label-scarce tail samples often carry …

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