Dual-View Ranking with Hardness Assessment for Zero-Shot Learning

Authors

  • Yuchen Guo Tsinghua University
  • Guiguang Ding Tsinghua University
  • Jungong Han Lancaster University
  • Xiaohan Ding Tsinghua University
  • Sicheng Zhao University of California, Berkeley
  • Zheng Wang University of Science and Technology Beijing
  • Chenggang Yan Hangzhou Dianzi University
  • Qionghai Dai Tsinghua University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33018360

Abstract

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is to build recognition models for previously unseen target classes which have no labeled data for training by transferring knowledge from some other related auxiliary source classes with abundant labeled samples to the target ones with class attributes as the bridge. The key is to learn a similarity based ranking function between samples and class labels using the labeled source classes so that the proper (unseen) class label for a test sample can be identified by the function. In order to learn the function, single-view ranking based loss is widely used which aims to rank the true label prior to the other labels for a training sample. However, we argue that the ranking can be performed from the other view, which aims to place the images belonging to a label before the images from the other classes. Motivated by it, we propose a novel DuAl-view RanKing (DARK) loss for zeroshot learning simultaneously ranking labels for an image by point-to-point metric and ranking images for a label by pointto-set metric, which is capable of better modeling the relationship between images and classes. In addition, we also notice that previous ZSL approaches mostly fail to well exploit the hardness of training samples, either using only very hard ones or using all samples indiscriminately. In this work, we also introduce a sample hardness assessment method to ZSL which assigns different weights to training samples based on their hardness, which leads to a more accurate and robust ZSL model. Experiments on benchmarks demonstrate that DARK outperforms the state-of-the-arts for (generalized) ZSL.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Guo, Y., Ding, G., Han, J., Ding, X., Zhao, S., Wang, Z., Yan, C., & Dai, Q. (2019). Dual-View Ranking with Hardness Assessment for Zero-Shot Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 8360-8367. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33018360

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AAAI Technical Track: Vision