arXiv:2607. 12438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep networks trained with label noise often learn clean structure before memorizing corrupted labels.
The paper proposes a method that first pre‑trains a feature extractor on the target dataset using in‑domain self‑supervised learning (SSL) without labels, then performs standard supervised training on the same noisy dataset. This two‑stage approach eliminates the need for a clean label subset and consistently improves classification accuracy and label‑error detection across synthetic and real‑world noise, especially as noise rates increase. Experiments show that the method matches or surpasses ImageNet and DinoV2 pre‑training, particularly under high noise conditions.
The paper investigates how knowledge distillation from Vision Transformers to smaller CNNs can cause dimensional collapse in the student’s representation space. Using SVD and Shannon entropy, the authors show that cosine‑based distillation leads to a drastic reduction in effective rank, while adding an InfoNCE objective can double the rank but harms downstream accuracy due to signal dilution. They further demonstrate that a label‑aware contrastive objective (Supervised Contrastive distillation) can maintain or improve accuracy without unnecessary rank expansion, indicating that effective rank alone is not a reliable indicator of representation quality.
arXiv:2608.29167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robustness of segmentation models is commonly assessed through input-domain perturbations, while dependence on frequency content within learned feature...
arXiv:2608. 07921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We apply Marchenko-Pastur (MP) random matrix theory to pre-trained attention weights in order to separate each projection matrix into a random-like bulk and a set of spectral outliers.
arXiv:2607.01630v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dynamic expansion methods for class-incremental learning (CIL) protect task-specific knowledge by growing dedicated tokens or subnetworks, yet our...
arXiv:2610.01028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning models often suffer performance degradation under subpopulation shift, particularly when spurious correlations cause models to rely...
arXiv:2512. 23043v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Averaging (FedAvg) often degrades under non-IID client data, but it remains unclear whether this degradation reflects the loss of client-learned representations or a failure to use representations that are still present.
The paper compares five machine unlearning (MU) methods—NegGrad, Fine‑Tuning (FT), Random Labeling (RL), SalUn, and MUNBa—on noisy‑label correction across CIFAR‑10, CIFAR‑100, and Food‑101N. Results show that the best MU strategy depends on the noise type: FT works well for most closed‑set noise, RL and SalUn are robust and nearly match retraining accuracy under instance‑dependent noise, while MUNBa excels only under extreme symmetric noise. In open‑set noise, retraining on the cleaned data actually hurts performance, indicating that approximating retraining is not suitable in that regime, yet all MU methods still achieve near‑retraining accuracy on Food‑101N with much lower runtime.
Dynamic expansion methods for class-incremental learning (CIL) protect task-specific knowledge by growing dedicated tokens or subnetworks, yet our analyses suggest that classification supervision alone does not sufficiently preserve task-agnostic shared backbone representations over long incremental sequences. We identify two intertwined challenges: cross-task confusion from sequential training on predominantly current-task data, which biases decision boundaries toward recent tasks; and under-optimized shared representations in the backbone that cap long-term discriminability as tasks accumulate.
arXiv:2609.15643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching diffusion models have recently emerged as a strong paradigm for high-fidelity visual generation. However, their prohibitively high fine-t...
arXiv:2606. 07086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel in computer vision tasks given large annotated datasets.