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From ImageNet to Image Classification: Contextualizing Progress on Benchmarks
Dimitris Tsipras · Shibani Santurkar · Logan Engstrom · Andrew Ilyas · Aleksander Madry

Thu Jul 16 06:00 AM -- 06:45 AM & Thu Jul 16 05:00 PM -- 05:45 PM (PDT) @

Building rich machine learning datasets in a scalable manner often necessitates a crowd-sourced data collection pipeline. In this work, we use human studies to investigate the consequences of employing such a pipeline, focusing on the popular ImageNet dataset. We study how specific design choices in the ImageNet creation process impact the fidelity of the resulting dataset---including the introduction of biases that state-of-the-art models exploit. Our analysis pinpoints how a noisy data collection pipeline can lead to a systematic misalignment between the resulting benchmark and the real-world task it serves as a proxy for. Finally, our findings emphasize the need to augment our current model training and evaluation toolkit to take such misalignment into account.

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Dimitris Tsipras (MIT)
Shibani Santurkar (MIT)
Logan Engstrom (MIT)
Andrew Ilyas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Aleksander Madry (MIT)

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