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Deep Learning Under Privileged Information Using Heteroscedastic Dropout

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Lambert, John, Sener, Ozan, Savarese, Silvio·2018·2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Unlike machines, humans learn through rapid, Abstract model-building. The role of a teacher is not simply to hammer home right or wrong answers, but rather to provide intuitive comments, comparisons, and explanations to a pupil. This is what the Learning Under Privileged Information (LUPI) paradigm endeavors to model by utilizing extra knowledge only available during training. We propose a new LUPI algorithm specifically designed for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). We propose to use a heteroscedastic dropout (i.e. dropout with a varying variance) and make the variance of the dropout a function of privileged information. Intuitively, this corresponds to using the privileged information to control the uncertainty of the model output. We perform experiments using CNNs and RNNs for the tasks of image classification and machine translation. Our method significantly increases the sample efficiency during learning, resulting in higher accuracy with a large margin when the number of training examples is limited. We also theoretically justify the gains in sample efficiency by providing a generalization error bound decreasing with O(1/n), where n is the number of training examples, in an oracle case.

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  • In 2019, Xue et al. [640] used ResNet-101 with Ensemble for classification of skin cancer on 1 dataset.

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Authors
Lambert, J., Sener, O., & Savarese, S.
Affiliations
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
  • Stanford University (US)
Venue
2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2018-06
Pages
8886-8895
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2798520291
Cited by
93
References
41
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2026: 1 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 14
FWCI
5.27
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Algorithms
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Data Classification
Keywords
privileged information, uncertainty modeling, sample efficiency, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, image classification, machine translation, generalization bounds

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