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Yichen Xie

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Boundary Matters: A Bi-Level Active Finetuning Method

Han Lu
Yichen Xie
Xiaokang Yang
Junchi Yan

The pretraining-finetuning paradigm has gained widespread adoption in vision tasks and other fields. However, the finetuning phase still requires high-quality annotated samples. To overcome this challenge, the concept of active finetuning has emerged, aiming to select the most appropriate samples for model finetuning within a limited budget. Existing active learning methods struggle in this scenario due to their inherent bias in batch selection. Meanwhile, the recent active finetuning approach focuses solely on global distribution alignment but neglects the contributions of samples to local boundaries. Therefore, we propose a Bi-Level Active Finetuning framework (BiLAF) to select the samples for annotation in one shot, encompassing two stages: core sample selection for global diversity and boundary sample selection for local decision uncertainty. Without the need of ground-truth labels, our method can successfully identify pseudo-class centers, apply a novel denoising technique, and iteratively select boundary samples with designed evaluation metric. Extensive experiments provide qualitative and quantitative evidence of our method's superior efficacy, consistently outperforming the existing baselines.

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NeurIPS Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Towards Free Data Selection with General-Purpose Models

Yichen Xie
Mingyu Ding
Masayoshi Tomizuka
Wei Zhan

A desirable data selection algorithm can efficiently choose the most informative samples to maximize the utility of limited annotation budgets. However, current approaches, represented by active learning methods, typically follow a cumbersome pipeline that iterates the time-consuming model training and batch data selection repeatedly. In this paper, we challenge this status quo by designing a distinct data selection pipeline that utilizes existing general-purpose models to select data from various datasets with a single-pass inference without the need for additional training or supervision. A novel free data selection (FreeSel) method is proposed following this new pipeline. Specifically, we define semantic patterns extracted from inter-mediate features of the general-purpose model to capture subtle local information in each image. We then enable the selection of all data samples in a single pass through distance-based sampling at the fine-grained semantic pattern level. FreeSel bypasses the heavy batch selection process, achieving a significant improvement in efficiency and being 530x faster than existing active learning methods. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of FreeSel on various computer vision tasks.

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AAAI Conference 2021 Conference Paper

DecAug: Augmenting HOI Detection via Decomposition

Hao-Shu Fang
Yichen Xie
Dian Shao
Yong-Lu Li
Cewu Lu

Human-object interaction (HOI) detection requires a large amount of annotated data. Current algorithms suffer from insufficient training samples and category imbalance within datasets. To increase data efficiency, in this paper, we propose an efficient and effective data augmentation method called DecAug for HOI detection. Based on our proposed object state similarity metric, object patterns across different HOIs are shared to augment local object appearance features without changing their states. Further, we shift spatial correlation between humans and objects to other feasible configurations with the aid of a pose-guided Gaussian Mixture Model while preserving their interactions. Experiments show that our method brings up to 3. 3 mAP and 1. 6 mAP improvements on V-COCO and HICO-DET dataset for two advanced models. Specifically, interactions with fewer samples enjoy more notable improvement. Our method can be easily integrated into various HOI detection models with negligible extra computational consumption.

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AAAI Conference 2021 Conference Paper

DIRV: Dense Interaction Region Voting for End-to-End Human-Object Interaction Detection

Hao-Shu Fang
Yichen Xie
Dian Shao
Cewu Lu

Recent years, human-object interaction (HOI) detection has achieved impressive advances. However, conventional twostage methods are usually slow in inference. On the other hand, existing one-stage methods mainly focus on the union regions of interactions, which introduce unnecessary visual information as disturbances to HOI detection. To tackle the problems above, we propose a novel one-stage HOI detection approach DIRV in this paper, based on a new concept called interaction region for the HOI problem. Unlike previous methods, our approach concentrates on the densely sampled interaction regions across different scales for each human-object pair, so as to capture the subtle visual features that is most essential to the interaction. Moreover, in order to compensate for the detection flaws of a single interaction region, we introduce a novel voting strategy that makes full use of those overlapped interaction regions in place of conventional Non-Maximal Suppression (NMS). Extensive experiments on two popular benchmarks: V-COCO and HICO-DET show that our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-arts by a large margin with the highest inference speed and lightest network architecture. Our code is publicly available at www. github. com/MVIG-SJTU/DIRV.

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AAAI Conference 2021 Conference Paper

Interpreting Multivariate Shapley Interactions in DNNs

Hao Zhang
Yichen Xie
Longjie Zheng
Die Zhang
Quanshi Zhang

This paper aims to explain deep neural networks (DNNs) from the perspective of multivariate interactions. In this paper, we define and quantify the significance of interactions among multiple input variables of the DNN. Input variables with strong interactions usually form a coalition and reflect prototype features, which are memorized and used by the DNN for inference. We define the significance of interactions based on the Shapley value, which is designed to assign the attribution value of each input variable to the inference. We have conducted experiments with various DNNs. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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