arXiv Machine Learning

Local Reference Geometry Residual Augmentation for Imbalanced Time Series Classification

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

A Strong Balanced-Softmax Classifier-Retraining Baseline for Long-Tailed Recognition

arXiv:2607. 09832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-tailed recognition methods often modify losses, margins, or representations to reduce the dominance of frequent classes.

By Juan Terven, Diana Margarita C\'ordova Esparza, Julio Alejandro Romero Gonzalez, Edgar Arturo Ch\'avez Urbiola, Francisco Javier Willars Rodriguez, Juan Bautista Hurtado Ramos, Alfonso Ramirez Pedraza
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Vertical Fusion: Condensing Internal Representations for Robust ViT Classification

arXiv:2607. 10391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite exposing rich intermediate representations, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are almost exclusively utilized as black-box feature extractors, where only the last layer is considered for downstream tasks.

By Francesco Di Salvo, Shyam Nandan Rai, Hamed Damirchi, Ignacio Meza De la Jara, Sebastian Doerrich, Marco Lents, Christian Ledig
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Differentiable Interval Bottlenecks for Interpretable Anomaly Detection in Numerical Data

DIFFINT is a reconstruction‑based anomaly detector that uses a differentiable autoencoder with a latent bottleneck composed of soft, axis‑aligned interval memberships. Each latent unit represents a human‑readable hyper‑rectangle in feature space, allowing the model to encode how strongly an instance falls inside each interval and to compute reconstruction error as the anomaly score. The method provides a certified lower bound on reconstruction error for points outside all active intervals, a suppression mechanism for sparse abnormalities, and a closed‑form, label‑free importance ranking for each (unit, feature) pair, achieving top performance on 48 ADBench benchmarks against 22 baselines.

By Lamine Diop, Marc Plantevit
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Rethinking Class Imbalance for Single-Cell Foundation Models: A Systematic Benchmark Across Architectures and Long-Tail Loss Functions

The paper benchmarks six long‑tail loss functions—cross‑entropy, weighted CE, class‑balanced loss, focal loss, LDAM, and logit‑adjusted softmax—across three single‑cell foundation model architectures (scGPT, scBERT, Geneformer) and three datasets (Multiple Sclerosis, Zheng68K, human Pancreas). It shows that overall accuracy masks systematic failures on rare, disease‑relevant cell types, with a consistent gap between overall accuracy, Macro‑F1, and rare‑class recall under plain cross‑entropy. The study identifies two distinct regimes of rare‑class failure, predicts reweighting efficacy by absolute training‑set size, and finds class‑balanced loss and LDAM to be the most reliable across all settings.

By Zeyu Dong, Jiahui Zhong
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Leakage-Robust Evaluation and Data-Scale Sensitivity of Attention-Enhanced Multi-Task Learning for Joint Fault Diagnosis and Remaining Useful Life Estimation

arXiv:2607. 16493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-task deep learning models that jointly perform fault classification and remaining useful life (RUL) regression are increasingly used in predictive maintenance, yet reported performance can be strongly affected by how sliding-window sequences are split into training and test sets.

By Md Mahamudur Rahaman Shamim, Md. Nuruzzaman, Zannatul Ferdus, Md Rajib Ahmed, Abieer Nwshad Anward, Mohammad Tooneer, Johir Uddin Khan, Khalid Hossen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

XtrAIn: Training-Guided Occlusion for Feature Attribution

arXiv:2606. 10877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Occlusion-based attribution methods provide an intuitive way to estimate feature importance by perturbing input features and measuring the resulting change in model output.

By Thodoris Lymperopoulos, Ioannis Kakogeorgiou, Denia Kanellopoulou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

LeNEPA: No-Augmentation Next-Latent Prediction for Time-Series Representation Learning

arXiv:2607. 00958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series are central to modern data mining applications, from industrial telemetry and server metrics to finance and physiology, yet time-series self-supervised learning often depends on view and augmentation choices that encode domain-specific invariances.

By Alexander Chemeris, Ming Jin, Randall Balestriero