The paper introduces a controlled evaluation framework to determine when encoder adaptation is beneficial after correcting for class imbalance in long‑tailed recognition tasks. By separating unique support from representation allocation and comparing classifier‑only versus full‑network continuations, the study shows that encoder updates become worthwhile only when representation allocation is highly imbalanced, a transition that persists across various corrections and scales to ImageNet. The framework uses stage‑specific controls, multiple objectives, whole‑distribution metrics, and hierarchical inference to robustly estimate incremental encoder value.
By Zexing Zhang, Jichao Li, Tianyang Lei, Yiyin Zhang, Kewei Yang
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: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:2607. 17178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imbalanced learning addresses predictive modeling problems with underrepresented regions of the data distribution.
By Shermin Shahbazi, Hossein Mohammadi, Mohsen Afsharchi
arXiv:2509. 07605v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class imbalance poses a significant challenge to supervised classification, particularly in critical domains like medical diagnostics and anomaly detection where minority class instances are rare.
By Ali Nawaz, Amir Ahmad, Shehroz S. Khan
arXiv:2610.33063v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Deployed vision models auto-accept confident predictions, so high-confidence errors propagate silently. Maximum Softmax Probability (MSP), the standa...
By Wonseok Shin, Songkuk Kim
The paper investigates drift detection in deep learning models, showing that sharing a deep encoder alone does not eliminate confounding in task-comparison scores. By introducing a conditional two‑discriminator discrepancy into the embedding space, the authors create a two‑axis gate that remains stable under input rotations and accurately tracks label‑permutation drift. This approach outperforms traditional exchange or novelty triggers, achieving high AUROC in distinguishing semantic novelty from photometric shift across multiple backbones and datasets.
By Kentaro Oda
The paper introduces the Recursive Time-Series Model (RTSM), a deep-learning architecture that uses a learned convolutional temporal tokenizer, a single-state weight‑tied refinement module, and a pooled classification readout to classify multivariate time‑series data. On the 30 UEA datasets, RTSM achieves a mean accuracy of 72.81% under validation‑based configuration, surpassing all 17 evaluated deep‑learning models and outperforming MambaSL by 1.60 percentage points. Ablation studies show that the proposed tokenizer and single‑state design outperform simpler convolutional embeddings and two‑state variants, and the full classifier reaches 86.10% mean accuracy compared to 84.79% for a tokenizer‑only classifier.
By Georg Tenzing, Anna Tegon, Luca Benini, Thorir Mar Ingolfsson
Density‑Ratio Rescoring (DRR) enhances a classifier trained with the original class prior by adding a survey‑raking dual score that reweights the majority class to match minority feature moments within a tolerance. The method standardizes both the dual and base scores, combines them with equal weight, and uses the fitted dual directly for prediction without resampling or refitting the base model. Experiments on 24 tabular benchmarks and a gene‑expression cohort show that DRR improves average precision over the standardized base on every dataset, with a mean gain of 0.034, and outperforms a shared‑dual raking‑and‑relabeling resampler on most datasets.
By Dongha Kim, Seunghwan Park
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:2609.23926v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Density-Ratio Rescoring (DRR) augments a classifier trained at the original class prior with a survey-raking dual score. Raking reweights the majorit...
By Dongha Kim, Seunghwan Park
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