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Seunghan Yang

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Robust Federated Learning with Noisy Labels

Federated learning is a paradigm that enables local devices to jointly train a server model while keeping the data decentralized and private. In federated learning, since local data are collected by clients, it is hardly guaranteed that the data are correctly annotated. Although a lot of studies have been conducted to train the networks robust to these noisy data in a centralized setting, these algorithms still suffer from noisy labels in federated learning. Compared to the centralized setting, clients' data can have different noise distributions due to variations in their labeling systems or background knowledge of users. As a result, local models form inconsistent decision boundaries and their weights severely diverge from each other, which are serious problems in federated learning. To solve these problems, we introduce a novel federated learning scheme that the server cooperates with local models to maintain consistent decision boundaries by interchanging class-wise centroids. These centroids are central features of local data on each device, which are aligned by the server every communication round. Updating local models with the aligned centroids helps to form consistent decision boundaries among local models, although the noise distributions in clients' data are different from each other. To improve local model performance, we introduce a novel approach to select confident samples that are used for updating the model with given labels. Furthermore, we propose a global-guided pseudo-labeling method to update labels of unconfident samples by exploiting the global model. Our experimental results on the noisy CIFAR-10 dataset and the Clothing1M dataset show that our approach is noticeably effective in federated learning with noisy labels.

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Arbitrary Style Transfer using Graph Instance Normalization

Style transfer is the image synthesis task, which applies a style of one image to another while preserving the content. In statistical methods, the adaptive instance normalization (AdaIN) whitens the source images and applies the style of target images through normalizing the mean and variance of features. However, computing feature statistics for each instance would neglect the inherent relationship between features, so it is hard to learn global styles while fitting to the individual training dataset. In this paper, we present a novel learnable normalization technique for style transfer using graph convolutional networks, termed Graph Instance Normalization (GrIN). This algorithm makes the style transfer approach more robust by taking into account similar information shared between instances. Besides, this simple module is also applicable to other tasks like image-to-image translation or domain adaptation.

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Associative Partial Domain Adaptation

Partial Adaptation (PDA) addresses a practical scenario in which the target domain contains only a subset of classes in the source domain. While PDA should take into account both class-level and sample-level to mitigate negative transfer, current approaches mostly rely on only one of them. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to fully exploit multi-level associations that can arise in PDA. Our Associative Partial Domain Adaptation (APDA) utilizes intra-domain association to actively select out non-trivial anomaly samples in each source-private class that sample-level weighting cannot handle. Additionally, our method considers inter-domain association to encourage positive transfer by mapping between nearby target samples and source samples with high label-commonness. For this, we exploit feature propagation in a proposed label space consisting of source ground-truth labels and target probabilistic labels. We further propose a geometric guidance loss based on the label commonness of each source class to encourage positive transfer. Our APDA consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance across public datasets.

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Partial Domain Adaptation Using Graph Convolutional Networks

Partial domain adaptation (PDA), in which we assume the target label space is included in the source label space, is a general version of standard domain adaptation. Since the target label space is unknown, the main challenge of PDA is to reduce the learning impact of irrelevant source samples, named outliers, which do not belong to the target label space. Although existing partial domain adaptation methods effectively down-weigh outliers' importance, they do not consider data structure of each domain and do not directly align the feature distributions of the same class in the source and target domains, which may lead to misalignment of category-level distributions. To overcome these problems, we propose a graph partial domain adaptation (GPDA) network, which exploits Graph Convolutional Networks for jointly considering data structure and the feature distribution of each class. Specifically, we propose a label relational graph to align the distributions of the same category in two domains and introduce moving average centroid separation for learning networks from the label relational graph. We demonstrate that considering data structure and the distribution of each category is effective for PDA and our GPDA network achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Digit and Office-31 datasets.

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Combinational Class Activation Maps for Weakly Supervised Object Localization

Weakly supervised object localization has recently attracted attention since it aims to identify both class labels and locations of objects by using image-level labels. Most previous methods utilize the activation map corresponding to the highest activation source. Exploiting only one activation map of the highest probability class is often biased into limited regions or sometimes even highlights background regions. To resolve these limitations, we propose to use activation maps, named combinational class activation maps (CCAM), which are linear combinations of activation maps from the highest to the lowest probability class. By using CCAM for localization, we suppress background regions to help highlighting foreground objects more accurately. In addition, we design the network architecture to consider spatial relationships for localizing relevant object regions. Specifically, we integrate non-local modules into an existing base network at both low- and high-level layers. Our final model, named non-local combinational class activation maps (NL-CCAM), obtains superior performance compared to previous methods on representative object localization benchmarks including ILSVRC 2016 and CUB-200-2011. Furthermore, we show that the proposed method has a great capability of generalization by visualizing other datasets.

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