Why Not Hyperparameter-Friendly Optimisation? A Monotonic Adaptive Norm Rescaling Approach For Long-Tailed Recognition 文章

ArXiv CS.CV2026-06-02NEWSen作者: Shuo Zhang, Chenqi Li, Tingting Zhu

摘要

arXiv:2606.02526v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-tailed recognition poses a significant challenge for deep learning. The two-stage decoupling paradigm, which separates representation learning from classifier retraining, offers a promising solution. During the classifier retraining stage, adaptive norm rescaling is a popular technique. It adjusts the per-class weight norms via parameter regularization, which inevitably introduces hyperparameters. However, many studies report that long-tailed recognition is sensitive to these hyperparameters, as their setup significantly impacts performance. In this paper, we first provide a class-conditional distribution perspective to support norm rescaling methods. Furthermore, we propose a simple but effective approach called Self-Adaptive Monotonic Normalization (SAMN). SAMN avoids the need for parameter regularization.