Sensitivity of Slot-Based Object-Centric Models to their Number of Slots
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18890v1
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 09:44:12 GMT
- Title: Sensitivity of Slot-Based Object-Centric Models to their Number of Slots
- Authors: Roland S. Zimmermann, Sjoerd van Steenkiste, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi,
Thomas Kipf, Klaus Greff
- Abstract summary: We study the sensitivity of slot-based methods to $K$ and how this affects their learned correspondence to objects in the data.
We find that, especially during training, incorrect choices of $K$ do not yield the desired object decomposition.
We demonstrate that the choice of the objective function and incorporating instance-level annotations can moderately mitigate this behavior.
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- Abstract: Self-supervised methods for learning object-centric representations have
recently been applied successfully to various datasets. This progress is
largely fueled by slot-based methods, whose ability to cluster visual scenes
into meaningful objects holds great promise for compositional generalization
and downstream learning. In these methods, the number of slots (clusters) $K$
is typically chosen to match the number of ground-truth objects in the data,
even though this quantity is unknown in real-world settings. Indeed, the
sensitivity of slot-based methods to $K$, and how this affects their learned
correspondence to objects in the data has largely been ignored in the
literature. In this work, we address this issue through a systematic study of
slot-based methods. We propose using analogs to precision and recall based on
the Adjusted Rand Index to accurately quantify model behavior over a large
range of $K$. We find that, especially during training, incorrect choices of
$K$ do not yield the desired object decomposition and, in fact, cause
substantial oversegmentation or merging of separate objects
(undersegmentation). We demonstrate that the choice of the objective function
and incorporating instance-level annotations can moderately mitigate this
behavior while still falling short of fully resolving this issue. Indeed, we
show how this issue persists across multiple methods and datasets and stress
its importance for future slot-based models.
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