MetaCoCo: A New Few-Shot Classification Benchmark with Spurious Correlation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19644v1
• Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:45:30 GMT
• Title: MetaCoCo: A New Few-Shot Classification Benchmark with Spurious Correlation
• Authors: Min Zhang, Haoxuan Li, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang,
• Abstract summary: We present a benchmark with spurious-correlation shifts collected from real-world scenarios. We also propose a metric by using CLIP as a pre-trained vision-language model. The experimental results show that the performance of the existing methods degrades significantly in the presence of spurious-correlation shifts.
• Score: 46.50551811108464
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) problems in few-shot classification (FSC) occur when novel classes sampled from testing distributions differ from base classes drawn from training distributions, which considerably degrades the performance of deep learning models deployed in real-world applications. Recent studies suggest that the OOD problems in FSC mainly including: (a) cross-domain few-shot classification (CD-FSC) and (b) spurious-correlation few-shot classification (SC-FSC). Specifically, CD-FSC occurs when a classifier learns transferring knowledge from base classes drawn from seen training distributions but recognizes novel classes sampled from unseen testing distributions. In contrast, SC-FSC arises when a classifier relies on non-causal features (or contexts) that happen to be correlated with the labels (or concepts) in base classes but such relationships no longer hold during the model deployment. Despite CD-FSC has been extensively studied, SC-FSC remains understudied due to lack of the corresponding evaluation benchmarks. To this end, we present Meta Concept Context (MetaCoCo), a benchmark with spurious-correlation shifts collected from real-world scenarios. Moreover, to quantify the extent of spurious-correlation shifts of the presented MetaCoCo, we further propose a metric by using CLIP as a pre-trained vision-language model. Extensive experiments on the proposed benchmark are performed to evaluate the state-of-the-art methods in FSC, cross-domain shifts, and self-supervised learning. The experimental results show that the performance of the existing methods degrades significantly in the presence of spurious-correlation shifts. We open-source all codes of our benchmark and hope that the proposed MetaCoCo can facilitate future research on spurious-correlation shifts problems in FSC. The code is available at: https://github.com/remiMZ/MetaCoCo-ICLR24.

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