Sub-Clustering for Class Distance Recalculation in Long-Tailed Drug Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04647v1
• Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:09:10 GMT
• Title: Sub-Clustering for Class Distance Recalculation in Long-Tailed Drug Classification
• Authors: Yujia Su, Xinjie Li, Lionel Z. Wang,
• Abstract summary: In the field of drug chemistry, certain tail classes exhibit higher identifiability during training due to their unique molecular structural features.<n>We propose a novel method that breaks away from the traditional static evaluation paradigm based on sample size.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In the real world, long-tailed data distributions are prevalent, making it challenging for models to effectively learn and classify tail classes. However, we discover that in the field of drug chemistry, certain tail classes exhibit higher identifiability during training due to their unique molecular structural features, a finding that significantly contrasts with the conventional understanding that tail classes are generally difficult to identify. Existing imbalance learning methods, such as resampling and cost-sensitive reweighting, overly rely on sample quantity priors, causing models to excessively focus on tail classes at the expense of head class performance. To address this issue, we propose a novel method that breaks away from the traditional static evaluation paradigm based on sample size. Instead, we establish a dynamical inter-class separability metric using feature distances between different classes. Specifically, we employ a sub-clustering contrastive learning approach to thoroughly learn the embedding features of each class, and we dynamically compute the distances between class embeddings to capture the relative positional evolution of samples from different classes in the feature space, thereby rebalancing the weights of the classification loss function. We conducted experiments on multiple existing long-tailed drug datasets and achieved competitive results by improving the accuracy of tail classes without compromising the performance of dominant classes.

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