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Poster

Fine-grained Classes and How to Find Them

Matej Grcic · Artyom Gadetsky · Maria Brbic


Abstract:

In many practical applications coarse-grained labels are readily available compared to fine-grained labels that reflect subtle differences between classes. However, existing methods cannot leverage coarse labels to infer fine-grained labels in an unsupervised manner. To bridge this gap, we propose FALCON, a method that discovers fine-grained classes from coarsely labeled data without any supervision on the fine-grained level. FALCON simultaneously infers unknown fine-grained labels and underlying relationships between coarse and fine classes. Moreover, FALCON is a modular method that can effectively learn from multiple datasets labeled with different strategies. We evaluate FALCON on seven image classification datasets and two datasets from the biology domain. FALCON outperforms baselines by a large margin, achieving 22% improvement over the best baseline on the tieredImageNet dataset with over 600 fine-grained classes.

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