Selective Mixup Fine-Tuning for Optimizing Non-Decomposable Objectives

Shrinivas Ramasubramanian, Harsh Rangwani, Sho Takemori, Kunal Samanta, Yuhei Umeda, Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan

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Keywords: Non-Decomposable Objectives, Long-Tail Learning, Semi-Supervised Learning

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TL;DR: A selective feature mixup algorithm to optimise a Non-Decomposable objectives such as for a classifier

Abstract: The rise in internet usage has led to the generation of massive amounts of data, resulting in the adoption of various supervised and semi-supervised machine learning algorithms, which can effectively utilize the colossal amount of data to train models. However, before deploying these models in the real world, these must be strictly evaluated on performance measures like worst-case recall and satisfy constraints such as fairness. We find that current state-of-the-art empirical techniques offer sub-optimal performance on these practical, non-decomposable performance objectives. On the other hand, the theoretical techniques necessitate training a new model from scratch for each performance objective. To bridge the gap, we propose SelMix, a selective mixup-based inexpensive fine-tuning technique for pre-trained models, to optimize for the desired objective. The core idea of our framework is to determine a sampling distribution to perform a mixup of features between samples from particular classes such that it optimizes the given objective. We comprehensively evaluate our technique against the existing empirical and theoretically principled methods on standard benchmark datasets for imbalanced classification. We find that proposed SelMix fine-tuning significantly improves the performance for various practical non-decomposable objectives across benchmarks.

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Primary Area: general machine learning (i.e., none of the above)

Submission Number: 3669