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Record W4417002434 · doi:10.1109/tits.2025.3635279

Peer Learning Approach to Unbiased Scene Graph Generation for Traffic Scene Understanding

2025· article· W4417002434 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicMultimodal Machine Learning Applications
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersShenzhen Research FoundationChuzhou Science and Technology Program
KeywordsGraphBoosting (machine learning)Scene graphPeer-to-peerVotingGraph theory

Abstract

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The biased scene graph generation problem arises from the inherent long-tailed distributions of predicates, which are challenging to handle effectively with a single network. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework called peer learning, designed to address the issue of unbiased scene graph generation (USGG) through a divide-and-vote approach. To address the long-tailed problem, our framework operates in three steps. Firstly, we partition the heavily long-tailed distribution into subsets of more balanced sub-distribution groups, including head, body, and tail classes with a predicate sampling module. Next, we establish a peer network consisting of multiple peers, where each peer receives a combination of sub-distributions. This division enables peers to focus on different aspects of the scene graph generation task. Then, a novel peer learning loss function is introduced to cultivate the learning process among peer networks. Lastly, we employ the voting strategies for making final predictions within the peer network, boosting the influence of the majority’s opinion while downplaying the minority’s perspective. To illustrate the applicability of the proposed framework in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), we further conduct qualitative evaluations on traffic scene understanding tasks. The results demonstrate that peer learning markedly enhances the reliability of interpreting complex traffic scenarios. Experimental results on the Visual Genome and Open Images V6 datasets further verify the effectiveness of our proposed model. These results highlight that the peer learning framework is well-suited for addressing the challenges of unbiased scene graph generation, offering practical benefits for ITS applications such as traffic analysis and monitoring. The code is available at: PL.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.959
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.085
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.229 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it