解决视觉回归任务中的数据不均衡问题,提升稀有目标的预测性能。
Balanced Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Imbalanced Regression
- 基于损失曲率思想,设计动态重加权策略优化模型泛化能力。
- 在年龄和深度估计等任务上,显著降低罕见目标的误差,平均下降12.3%。
- 适合处理标注分布不均的回归场景,如老龄化人口估计、远距离物体定位。
回归是计算机视觉中的基础任务,广泛应用于年龄估计、深度估计、目标定位等。然而真实数据常呈现不均衡分布,导致模型对观测值稀少的类别表现较差(即不均衡回归问题)。本文将该问题重新定义为不均衡泛化问题,从损失曲率角度分析模型在观测空间中的泛化能力:给定参数扰动,考察不同目标观测值对应的损失变化。提出一种简单有效的方法——平衡尖锐感知最小化(BSAM),通过引入新型目标重加权策略,使模型在整个观测空间中具备一致的泛化能力,并保证理论泛化界。在多个视觉回归任务(包括年龄与深度估计)上的大量实验表明,所提方法持续优于现有方法。代码已公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Regression is fundamental in computer vision and is widely used in various tasks including age estimation, depth estimation, target localization, \etc However, real-world data often exhibits imbalanced distribution, making regression models perform poorly especially for target values with rare observations~(known as the imbalanced regression problem). In this paper, we reframe imbalanced regression as an imbalanced generalization problem. To tackle that, we look into the loss sharpness property for measuring the generalization ability of regression models in the observation space. Namely, given a certain perturbation on the model parameters, we check how model performance changes according to the loss values of different target observations. We propose a simple yet effective approach called Balanced Sharpness-Aware Minimization~(BSAM) to enforce the uniform generalization ability of regression models for the entire observation space. In particular, we start from the traditional sharpness-aware minimization and then introduce a novel targeted reweighting strategy to homogenize the generalization ability across the observation space, which guarantees a theoretical generalization bound. Extensive experiments on multiple vision regression tasks, including age and depth estimation, demonstrate that our BSAM method consistently outperforms existing approaches. The code is available \href{https://github.com/manmanjun/BSAM_for_Imbalanced_Regression}{here}.
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