提出FlexPooling,通过学习加权平均提升卷积网络特征保留能力。
FlexPooling with Simple Auxiliary Classifiers in Deep Networks

- 用可学习权重替代固定平均,动态聚焦重要特征
- 在多个图像分类数据集上提升1-3%准确率
- 附加简单辅助分类器增强效果,适合视觉任务优化
在计算机视觉中,卷积神经网络通常包含多层特征提取,每层通过下采样降低输入信号分辨率,这一过程称为池化,是CNN的关键操作。池化能提升对变换的鲁棒性、减少参数量、扩大感受野并降低计算时间。由于池化是信息损失过程,但仍需保留前层激活中的关键信息以提升网络判别力,因此如何有效保留重要特征至关重要。标准池化通常采用密集方法,如最大池化或平均池化,或通过步幅卷积实现。本文提出一种简单而有效的自适应池化方法——FlexPooling,该方法通过联合训练网络学习对激活值的加权平均,从而泛化平均池化。进一步实验表明,在网络中附加简单辅助分类器(SAC)能提升性能,且所提方法在多个主流图像分类数据集上的表现优于标准池化方法,准确率提升约1至3个百分点。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In computer vision, the basic pipeline of most convolutional neural networks consists of multiple feature extraction layers, where the input signal is downsampled to a lower resolution in each subsequent layer. This downsampling process is commonly referred to as pooling, which is an essential operation in CNNs. Pooling improves robustness against transformations, reduces the number of trainable parameters, increases the receptive field, and lowers computation time. Since pooling is a lossy process but remains important for extracting high-level information from low-level representations, it is important to preserve the most prominent information from previous activations to improve network discriminability. Standard pooling is usually performed using dense pooling methods, such as max pooling or average pooling, or through strided convolutional kernels. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective adaptive pooling method, called FlexPooling, which generalizes average pooling by learning a weighted average over activations jointly with the rest of the network. We further show that attaching Simple Auxiliary Classifiers (SAC) to the CNN improves performance and demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method compared with standard pooling methods. Experiments on multiple popular image classification datasets show that FlexPooling consistently outperforms baseline networks, achieving approximately 1 to 3 percent improvement in accuracy.
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