arXiv Machine Learning

AHEAD: Advancing Multi-Class Label Aggregation with Interpretable Cross-Annotator Modeling

arXiv:2607. 18465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crowdsourced labeling provides valuable labeled data for domains across natural language processing, computer vision, and video.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

VISTA: Dense Multi-Label Classroom Coding with Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces VISTA, a baseline for dense multi‑label classroom coding that leverages the COPUS protocol as a video benchmark. VISTA applies MiniCPM‑V‑4.5 over sliding windows, refines predictions with an MLP head, and aggregates results onto a 2‑minute COPUS grid, achieving 80.1% macro accuracy on held‑out chemistry lectures. The authors also identify systematic failure modes and provide benchmark tooling and code on GitHub.

By Andrew Franck, Brendan Ng, Ben Fitzgerald, Zane Derrod, Chris Cianci, Chris Craney
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Adapting Dense Vision-Language Relationships for Multi-label Classification with Partial Label

The paper introduces Language-driven Dense Semantic Adaptor (LDSA) for multi-label image classification with incomplete annotations. LDSA leverages multimodal pretrained CLIP models to extract prior-adaptive relationships, employing a densely contrastive adaptor for visual contrastive constraints and a language-driven interactive decoder with class-specific prompt tuning. Experiments show LDSA achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on public benchmarks and reveals implicit semantic relationships through its learning scheme.

By Cheng Chen, Yifan Zhao, Jia Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

Object Detection Benchmarks are Incomplete: The Role of Label Errors and Annotation Uncertainty

The paper demonstrates that object detection benchmarks suffer from incomplete annotations, with re-annotation of COCO, Pascal VOC, Cityscapes, and KITTI revealing up to a 60% increase in detected objects, especially small, occluded, or densely packed instances. The authors propose a scalable annotation pipeline that uses multiple annotators per object to capture uncertainty and improve recall, and they introduce two new large-scale benchmarks: an uncertainty-aware detection benchmark and a label error detection benchmark based on real errors. Their findings show that benchmark performance is highly sensitive to annotation quality, yet model rankings remain largely unchanged, highlighting the need for uncertainty-aware evaluation to better reflect real-world ambiguity.

By Sarina Penquitt, Jonathan Klees, Antonia van Betteray, Parssa Jashnieh, Peter Stehr, Matthias Rottmann, Lars Schmarje
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

BACON: Budgeted Human Calibration for Modeling and Evaluation with Multiple AI Judges

arXiv:2607. 16239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI judges offer a scalable, low-cost alternative to human evaluation, but their outputs can be biased relative to human preferences and highly item-dependent, varying across judges, tasks, and domains.

By Lei Shi, Anlan Zhang, Rita Lyu, Zhengmian Hu, Tong Yu, David Arbour, Avi Feller, Saayan Mitra, Ritwik Sinha
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

FailSAE: Towards Interpretable Failure Prediction for Vision-Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders

The paper introduces FailSAE, a method that uses Sparse Autoencoders to predict failures in vision‑language models (VLMs) such as CLIP. By treating failure prediction as a classification over sparse SAE latent activations and employing a three‑stage training pipeline, the approach yields higher prediction accuracy than existing confidence‑score or auxiliary‑classifier baselines. Analysis shows that the SAE captures class‑specific concepts and reveals a shift toward ambiguous or style‑related concepts during failures, offering insights for runtime failure recovery.

By Jie Ma, Zongxi Liu, Yi Zhu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

A Model for Imbalanced Label Aggregation: A Focus on Minority-Class Detection

arXiv:2607. 24622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study imbalanced crowdsourcing with a focus on class-dependent annotator accuracy, a setting that, to the best of our knowledge, remains relatively underexplored despite its importance in real-world inspection systems where the labels of greatest operational importance are also the rarest ones.

By Gabriel Singer, Samuel Gruffaz, Olivier Vo Van, Nicolas Vayatis, Argyris Kalogeratos
arXiv AI
Sep 25

ReCalMatch:Reliability-Calibrated Semantic Guidance for Semi-Supervised Fine-Grained Recognition

ReCalMatch introduces a reliability‑calibrated semantic framework for semi‑supervised fine‑grained visual recognition, addressing the problem of overconfident pseudo‑label errors that arise when visually similar categories produce incorrect high‑confidence predictions. The method constructs class‑conditioned semantic prototypes from class names and domain‑specific aspects, and computes a visual‑semantic agreement score to calibrate pseudo‑label reliability alongside prediction confidence and entropy. Experiments on datasets such as CUB‑200‑2011, Stanford Dogs, NABirds, and iNaturalist18 demonstrate that ReCalMatch consistently improves strong SSL baselines, especially in low‑label regimes where pseudo‑label noise is most severe.

By Yundi Hong, Hongyang He, Zheng Fang, Xuanyu Liu, Victor Sanchez