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Contrastive Examples for Addressing the Tyranny of the Majority

@article{Sharmanska2020ContrastiveEF,
  title={Contrastive Examples for Addressing the Tyranny of the Majority},
  author={V. Sharmanska and Lisa Anne Hendricks and Trevor Darrell and Novi Quadrianto},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2004.06524}
}

• V. Sharmanska, Lisa Anne Hendricks, +1 author Novi Quadrianto
• Published 2020
• Computer Science, Mathematics
• ArXiv

Computer vision algorithms, e.g. for face recognition, favour groups of individuals that are better represented in the training data. This happens because of the generalization that classifiers have to make. It is simpler to fit the majority groups as this fit is more important to overall error. We propose to create a balanced training dataset, consisting of the original dataset plus new data points in which the group memberships are intervened, minorities become majorities and vice versa. We… Expand

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