Hyperbolic Image Embeddings

Valentin Khrulkov, Leyla Mirvakhabova, Evgeniya Ustinova, Ivan V. Oseledets, Victor S. Lempitsky

Abstract: Computer vision tasks such as image classification, image retrieval, and few-shot learning are currently dominated by Euclidean and spherical embeddings so that the final decisions about class belongings or the degree of similarity are made using linear hyperplanes, Euclidean distances, or spherical geodesic distances (cosine similarity). In this work, we demonstrate that in many practical scenarios, hyperbolic embeddings provide a better alternative.