arXiv Machine Learning

Rethinking Post-Hoc Calibration in Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2607. 01902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable confidence estimates are essential in semantic segmentation, especially in safety-critical settings where overconfident errors can mislead downstream decisions.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

MVC-Bench: Benchmarking Calibration of Medical Vision-Language Models

MVC-Bench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate the calibration of vision‑language models (VLMs) and medical VLMs (Medical‑VLMs) for medical image classification. It tests calibration across robustness to modality, backbone, and domain shift; effectiveness of calibration strategies and prompt‑tuning methods; and stability under prompt‑template and random‑seed variations. The benchmark includes eight backbones, three medical modalities (fundus imaging, histopathology, chest X‑ray), and compares post‑hoc, train‑time, and zero‑shot calibration approaches, reporting accuracy, Expected Calibration Error (ECE), Maximum Calibration Error (MCE), and Adaptive Calibration Error (ACE) over 1,638 experiments, while also proposing a Multi‑Class Margin (MCM) regularization technique that improves ECE in most settings.

By Ashshak Sharifdeen, Shihab Aaqil Ahamed, Ufaq Khan, Muhammad Akhtar Munir Sujair Ibrahim, Mohamed Rafeek Mareer Ahamed, Yutong Xie, Imran Razzak, Muhammad Haris Khan
arXiv AI
Aug 20

The Impact of CutMix on Reliability and Robustness in Semantic Segmentation

The paper investigates how the CutMix data augmentation technique affects reliability and robustness in semantic segmentation. It evaluates two architectures—CNN-based DeepLabV3+ and transformer-based SegFormer—on both in-domain and out-of-domain data. Results show that CutMix has a minor effect on segmentation accuracy but consistently improves reliability, especially under distribution shifts, by enhancing calibration and uncertainty quality.

By Steven Landgraf, Markus Ulrich
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 27

MVC-Bench: Benchmarking Calibration of Medical Vision-Language Models

MVC-Bench is a calibration-focused benchmark for medical vision‑language models, evaluating how well these models express confidence across different modalities, backbones, and domain shifts. It tests robustness to modality, backbone, and domain changes, the effectiveness of calibration and prompt‑tuning strategies, and stability under prompt‑template and random‑seed variations. The benchmark includes 1638 experiments, reporting accuracy and Expected Calibration Error (ECE) along with other calibration metrics, and introduces a simple train‑time calibration method, Multi‑Class Margin (MCM) regularization, that achieves the lowest ECE in most settings.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

A Real-Calibrated Synthetic-First Data Engine

The paper introduces the Real‑Calibrated Synthetic‑First Data Engine, a modular pipeline that integrates controllable diffusion‑based synthetic image generation with multi‑stage curation, filtering, and optional uncertainty‑driven selection and human verification. Designed as a CLI‑based framework, it allows independent configuration of generation, filtering, selection, and validation modules to enhance reproducibility and flexibility in real‑world data workflows. Empirical tests on human pose estimation demonstrate that synthetic data can boost a real‑data baseline when used as low‑cost augmentation, though synthetic‑only training still lags behind real‑only performance, underscoring the importance of data‑centric orchestration in low‑data regimes.

By Yukang Shen, Zhiguo Liu, Yingshu Li, Yan Huang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

LiST: Lipschitz Scaling Training for Robust and Calibrated Neural Networks

arXiv:2607. 07745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While accuracy, robustness, and calibration are all essential for reliable neural networks, they are often studied separately; developing models that satisfy all three simultaneously remains a central challenge.

By Arthur Chiron (IRIT, EPE UT), Franck Mamalet (IRIT, DTIPG - SNCF, UT3), Thomas Massena (IRIT, DTIPG - SNCF, UT3), Thomas Deltort (IRIT), Mathieu Serrurier (IRIT, UT2J)
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Sample Margin-Aware Recalibration of Temperature Scaling

The paper introduces SMART, a lightweight recalibration technique that adjusts logits based on the margin between the top two logits, called the logit gap. It uses a soft-binned Expected Calibration Error objective to balance bias and variance, enabling stable updates even with limited calibration data. Experiments across various datasets and architectures show SMART achieves state‑of‑the‑art calibration with fewer parameters than existing methods.

By Haolan Guo, Linwei Tao, Haoyang Luo, Minjing Dong, Chang Xu