Have I Solved This Before? Retrieving Similar Segmentation Problems for Evolutionary Learning

Title:Have I Solved This Before? Retrieving Similar Segmentation Problems for Evolutionary Learning

Abstract:Reliable integration and solid configuration of monitoring systems constitute a fundamental prerequisites for achieving high efficiency and productivity in contemporary manufacturing environments. Design decisions on sensor type and system architecture have to be made at an early stage and under comparably high uncertainty. This work investigates a research direction that deviates from the traditional monitoring-system development process by shifting the attention from algorithm design to a deeper analysis of the inspection problem. In contrast to traditional design cycles, this paper proposes to gradually collect knowledge and store it in an abstract system model. This enables the retrieval of similar solutions for future use cases, preventing the need for expensive model training from scratch and allowing instead for the incremental refinement of existing base configurations. Reuse of previously generated pipelines reduces the risk of late and costly revisions. As there is little knowledge on cross-domain transferability of filter pipelines, this study analyzes the potential of retrieving filter pipelines to transfer them to different but similar segmentation problems. Finally, we statistically analyze the benefits of this `transfer learning' variant which is predominantly applied to image segmentation problems. In addition, we discuss how simple models help balancing the trade-off between complexity, technical requirements, and reliability in the design process.

Machine Learning (cs.LG); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)

arXiv:2606.08155 [cs.LG]

(or arXiv:2606.08155v1 [cs.LG] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.08155 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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