SGNet: A Super-class Guided Network for Image Classification and Object Detection
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Most classification models treat different object classes in parallel and the misclassifications between any two classes are treated equally. In contrast, human beings can exploit high-level information in making a prediction of an unknown object. Inspired by this observation, the paper proposes a super-class guided network (SGNet) to integrate the high-level semantic information into the network so as to increase its performance in inference. SGNet takes two-level class annotations that contain both super-class and finer class labels. The super-classes are higher-level semantic categories that consist of a certain amount of finer classes. A super-class branch (SCB), trained on super-class labels, is introduced to guide finer class prediction. At the inference time, we adopt two different strategies: Two-step inference (TSI) and direct inference (DI). TSI first predicts the super-class and then makes predictions of the corresponding finer class. On the other hand, DI directly generates predictions from the finer class branch (FCB). Extensive experiments have been performed on CIFAR-100 and MS COCO datasets. The experimental results validate the proposed approach and demonstrate its superior performance on image classification and object detection.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".