Potential Field Based Deep Metric Learning ...

Deep metric learning (DML) involves training a network to learn a semantically meaningful representation space. Many current approaches mine n-tuples of examples and model interactions within each tuplets. We present a novel, compositional DML model, inspired by electrostatic fields in physics that,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bhatnagar, Shubhang, Ahuja, Narendra
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2024
Subjects:
DML
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2405.18560
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18560
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Summary:Deep metric learning (DML) involves training a network to learn a semantically meaningful representation space. Many current approaches mine n-tuples of examples and model interactions within each tuplets. We present a novel, compositional DML model, inspired by electrostatic fields in physics that, instead of in tuples, represents the influence of each example (embedding) by a continuous potential field, and superposes the fields to obtain their combined global potential field. We use attractive/repulsive potential fields to represent interactions among embeddings from images of the same/different classes. Contrary to typical learning methods, where mutual influence of samples is proportional to their distance, we enforce reduction in such influence with distance, leading to a decaying field. We show that such decay helps improve performance on real world datasets with large intra-class variations and label noise. Like other proxy-based methods, we also use proxies to succinctly represent sub-populations of ...