arXiv:2607.20523q-bio.QMeess.IV2026-07

通过分层解耦梯度,提升稀有水生物种的细粒度识别准确率。

FISHER: Gradient-Decoupled Hierarchical Multi-Task Learning for Fine-Grained Aquatic Species Recognition

论文配图:FISHER: Gradient-Decoupled Hierarchical Multi-Task Learning for Fine-Grained Aquatic Species Recognition
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  • 按生物层级设计单向信息流,解耦不同任务梯度冲突。
  • 在未见物种上实现97.7%的性状识别mAP,稀有物种准确率提升13.4%。
  • 适合长尾分布下的生物多样性识别,尤其对稀有物种有效。

水生物种的细粒度识别因形态差异微小和长尾分布而困难,尤其是超稀有物种样本不足。自然解法是将分割、形态特征与物种分类联合建模于多任务学习框架中。然而,现有方法因低层密集任务与高层分类目标间存在梯度冲突,导致负迁移,损害细粒度表示。本文识别出层级任务间的梯度干扰为根本瓶颈,提出FISHER:一种梯度解耦的分层多任务学习框架。FISHER通过强制从分割到性状预测再到物种分类的单向信息流,并显式解耦任务边界梯度,防止高层目标污染低层形态表示,有效缓解负迁移同时保留共享监督优势。此外,引入正交性正则化原型分割头以获得解耦的解剖表示,并采用同方差不确定性加权动态平衡任务贡献。分析表明,鲁棒的性状表示是知识迁移到超稀有物种的关键桥梁。在Fish-Vista基准上的大量实验显示,FISHER在未见物种上实现97.7% mAP的性状识别,且超稀有物种分类准确率比强基线提升13.4%,验证了梯度解耦分层学习在长尾生物多样性识别中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Fine-grained recognition of aquatic species is challenging due to subtle morphological differences and long-tailed distributions, where ultra-rare species are underrepresented. A natural solution is to jointly model segmentation, morphological traits, and species classification within a multi-task learning (MTL) framework. However, existing MTL methods suffer from negative transfer caused by gradient conflicts between low-level dense tasks and high-level classification objectives, degrading fine-grained representations. To address this limitation, we identify gradient interference across hierarchical tasks as a fundamental bottleneck and propose FISHER, a gradient-decoupled hierarchical multi-task learning framework. FISHER aligns optimization with the biological hierarchy of aquatic species by enforcing a unidirectional information flow from segmentation to trait prediction and finally to species classification, while explicitly decoupling gradients across task boundaries. This design prevents high-level objectives from corrupting low-level morphological representations, effectively mitigating negative transfer while preserving the benefits of shared supervision. Furthermore, we introduce a prototypebased segmentation head with orthogonality regularization to encourage disentangled anatomical representations, and employ homoscedastic uncertainty weighting to dynamically balance task contributions during training. Our analysis shows that robust trait representations serve as a critical bridge for transferring knowledge to ultra-rare species. Extensive experiments on the Fish-Vista benchmark demonstrate that FISHER achieves 97.7% mAP for trait identification on unseen species and improves ultra-rare species classification accuracy by 13.4% over strong baselines, highlighting the effectiveness of gradient-decoupled hierarchical learning for long-tailed biodiversity recognition.

细粒度识别多任务学习长尾分布水生物种

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