Peng Xia, Di Xu, Ming Hu, Lie Ju, ZongYuan Ge
Long-tailed multi-label visual recognition (LTML) task is a highly challenging task due to the label co-occurrence and imbalanced data distribution. In this work, we propose a unified framework for LTML, namely prompt tuning with class-specific embedding loss (LMPT), capturing the semantic feature interactions between categories by combining text and image modality data and improving the performance synchronously on both head and tail classes. Specifically, LMPT introduces the embedding loss function with class-aware soft margin and re-weighting to learn class-specific contexts with the benefit of textual descriptions (captions), which could help establish semantic relationships between classes, especially between the head and tail classes. Furthermore, taking into account the class imbalance, the distribution-balanced loss is adopted as the classification loss function to further improve the performance on the tail classes without compromising head classes. Extensive experiments are conducted on VOC-LT and COCO-LT datasets, which demonstrates that our method significantly surpasses the previous state-of-the-art methods and zero-shot CLIP in LTML. Our codes are fully public at https://github.com/richard-peng-xia/LMPT.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Value | Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image Classification | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 66.19 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Image Classification | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 58.97 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |
| Image Classification | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 87.88 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Image Classification | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 85.44 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |
| Few-Shot Image Classification | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 66.19 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Few-Shot Image Classification | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 58.97 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |
| Few-Shot Image Classification | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 87.88 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Few-Shot Image Classification | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 85.44 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |
| Generalized Few-Shot Classification | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 66.19 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Generalized Few-Shot Classification | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 58.97 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |
| Generalized Few-Shot Classification | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 87.88 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Generalized Few-Shot Classification | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 85.44 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |
| Long-tail Learning | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 66.19 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Long-tail Learning | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 58.97 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |
| Long-tail Learning | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 87.88 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Long-tail Learning | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 85.44 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |
| Generalized Few-Shot Learning | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 66.19 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Generalized Few-Shot Learning | COCO-MLT | Average mAP | 58.97 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |
| Generalized Few-Shot Learning | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 87.88 | LMPT(ViT-B/16) |
| Generalized Few-Shot Learning | VOC-MLT | Average mAP | 85.44 | LMPT(ResNet-50) |