Knot-10:A Tightness-Stratified Benchmark for Real-World Knot Classification with Topological Difficulty Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23286v2
• Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:39:26 GMT
• Title: Knot-10:A Tightness-Stratified Benchmark for Real-World Knot Classification with Topological Difficulty Analysis
• Abstract summary: We introduce the Knots-10 benchmark, comprising 1,440 images with a deployment-oriented split that trains on loosely tied knots and tests on tightly dressed ones.<n>Swin-T and TransFG both average 97.2% accuracy; PMG scores 94.5%, consistent with the hypothesis that jigsaw shuffling disrupts crossing continuity.<n>We propose TACA regularization, which improves embedding-topology alignment without improving classification accuracy.
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• Abstract: Physical knot classification is a fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) scenario in which appearance cues are deliberately suppressed: different classes share the same rope material, color, and background, and class identity resides primarily in crossing structure. We introduce the Knots-10 benchmark, comprising 1,440 images with a deployment-oriented split that trains on loosely tied knots and tests on tightly dressed ones. Swin-T and TransFG both average 97.2% accuracy; PMG scores 94.5%, consistent with the hypothesis that jigsaw shuffling disrupts crossing continuity. McNemar tests cannot separate four of the five general-purpose backbones, so small ranking margins should be interpreted with caution. A Mantel permutation test shows that topological distance significantly correlates with confusion patterns in three of the five models (p < 0.01). We propose TACA regularization, which improves embedding-topology alignment from rho=0.46 to rho=0.65 without improving classification accuracy; a random-distance ablation yields comparable alignment, indicating the benefit is likely driven by generic regularization. A pilot cross-domain test with 100 phone photographs reveals a 58-69 percentage-point accuracy drop, exposing rope appearance bias as the dominant failure mode.

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