arXiv Machine Learning By Masoud Yavari, Payman Moallem

Neural Prior Estimation: Learning Class Priors from Latent Representations

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arXiv:2602. 17853v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Logit adjustment corrects class imbalance using the empirical class prior.

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