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AIR introduces an analytic imbalance rectifier algorithm designed to mitigate performance degradation in continual learning scenarios involving evolving, imbalanced data streams. By employing an online, exemplar-free approach with a closed-form incremental classifier, the method effectively equalizes sample weights across classes without requiring stored examples from previous tasks. This advancement offers a robust solution for maintaining high accuracy and macro F1 scores in dynamic environments where class frequencies shift over time.
AIR: Analytic Imbalance Rectifier for Continual Learning
arXiv:2408.10349v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual learning (CL) agents incrementally learn from sequentially arriving data and adapt to the dynamic, ever-changing nature of real-world environments. However, many existing CL methods suffer performance degradation in evolving, imbalanced data streams due to limited adaptation to changing class frequencies or ineffective use of mixed data from new and previously observed classes. To deal with these challenges, we propose an analytic imbalance rectifier (AIR) algorithm for real-world CL. AIR is an online exemplar-free approach with a frozen backbone as the feature extractor and a closed-form incremental classifier whose weight equals the joint-learning weight for the same class-weighted ridge objective. AIR addresses class imbalance with an analytic reweighting module (ARM) that calculates a reweighting factor for each class in the loss function to equalize total sample weights across classes. Under long-tailed class-incremental learning, AIR leads 28 baselines in aggregate accuracy and exemplar-free methods in aggregate macro F1, gaining 3.21% accuracy and 2.14% macro F1 over the respective strongest exemplar-free baselines. Under the Si-Blurry setting with recurring classes, AIR leads 15 exemplar-based and exemplar-free baselines, gaining 2.32% aggregate accuracy and 1.27% aggregate macro F1 over the strongest baseline. One-sided paired tests support positive mean absolute gains in these four comparisons (Holm-adjusted p<0.006).
Abstract:Continual learning (CL) agents incrementally learn from sequentially arriving data and adapt to the dynamic, ever-changing nature of real-world environments. However, many existing CL methods suffer performance degradation in evolving, imbalanced data streams due to limited adaptation to changing class frequencies or ineffective use of mixed data from new and previously observed classes. To deal with these challenges, we propose an analytic imbalance rectifier (AIR) algorithm for real-world CL. AIR is an online exemplar-free approach with a frozen backbone as the feature extractor and a closed-form incremental classifier whose weight equals the joint-learning weight for the same class-weighted ridge objective. AIR addresses class imbalance with an analytic reweighting module (ARM) that calculates a reweighting factor for each class in the loss function to equalize total sample weights across classes. Under long-tailed class-incremental learning, AIR leads 28 baselines in aggregate accuracy and exemplar-free methods in aggregate macro F1, gaining 3.21% accuracy and 2.14% macro F1 over the respective strongest exemplar-free baselines. Under the Si-Blurry setting with recurring classes, AIR leads 15 exemplar-based and exemplar-free baselines, gaining 2.32% aggregate accuracy and 1.27% aggregate macro F1 over the strongest baseline. One-sided paired tests support positive mean absolute gains in these four comparisons (Holm-adjusted p<0.006).
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
arXiv:2408.10349 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2408.10349v2 [cs.LG] for this version)
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