arXiv:2608.18185cs.LGcs.CV2026-08

提出一种新型分层不确定性建模方法,提升细粒度分类的置信度准确性。

H$^2$EDL: Hyper Evidential Deep Learning for Hierarchical Classification

论文配图:H$^2$EDL: Hyper Evidential Deep Learning for Hierarchical Classification
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  • 基于标签树结构设计局部狄利克雷观点,统一处理层级分类与不确定性
  • 在FGVC-Aircraft和DERM数据集上校准误差降低约50%,深度层级效果更显著
  • 适合需要准确评估模型置信度的细粒度识别场景

细粒度识别常涉及分层标签空间,模型可能对粗粒度概念有较高置信度,但在其子类间仍存不确定性。现有方法或仅量化叶节点总不确定度,或传播点概率而无证据表示。本文提出H²EDL,利用标签树本身作为超域,通过每个分支节点的局部狄利克雷观点,闭式推导所有复合节点的质量。该模型兼具分层分类一致性与树状超观点的有效性:每个节点的质量代表信念到达该节点但不足以继续细分到子节点。在FGVC-Aircraft和DERM12345数据集上,相比交叉熵基线,校准误差减少约一半,且在更深层次和更大训练规模下优势更明显。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Fine-grained recognition often involves hierarchical label spaces, where a model may be confident about a coarse semantic concept while remaining uncertain among its descendant classes. Such structured ambiguity requires uncertainty representations that capture both fine-grained classes and intermediate concepts. However, existing tools each capture only half of it: flat evidential classifiers quantify total ignorance with a single vacuity on the leaf frame, and hierarchical classifiers propagate point probabilities with no notion of evidence. Hyper-opinions would unify the two, but their general form is exponential in the label count, and existing hyper-evidential networks either require composite labels to be supplied in the training data or read them off an unstructured weight pattern, with no principled notion of which composites deserve mass. We observe that the taxonomy itself is the missing hyperdomain. Its subtrees and leaf singletons form a linear-size focal family, and one local Dirichlet opinion per branching node induces every composite mass in closed form. The resulting model, H$^2$EDL, can be interpreted in two complementary ways using the same set of parameters. From a prediction perspective, it functions as a hierarchical classifier that preserves consistency across different levels of the label tree. From a probabilistic perspective, it defines a valid tree-structured hyper-opinion, where the mass assigned to each node represents the belief that reaches that node but does not provide sufficient confidence to further specialize into its descendants. On FGVC-Aircraft and DERM12345, H$^2$EDL reduces calibration error by approximately half compared with cross-entropy baselines, with the improvement becoming more pronounced at deeper hierarchy levels and under larger training budgets.

分层分类不确定性建模深度学习

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