On Accuracy and Speed of Geodesic Regression: Do Geometric Priors Improve Learning on Small Datasets?

Abstract

Image datasets in specialized fields of science, such as biomedicine, are typically smaller than traditional machine learning datasets. As such, they present a problem for training many models. To address this challenge, researchers often attempt to incorporate priors, i.e., external knowledge, to help the learning procedure. Geometric priors, for example, offer to restrict the learning process to the manifold to which the data belong. However, learning on manifolds is sometimes computationally intensive to the point of being prohibitive. Here, we ask a provocative question: is machine learning on manifolds really more accurate than its linear counterpart to the extent that it is worth sacrificing significant speedup in computation? We answer this question through an extensive theoretical and experimental study of one of the most common learning methods for manifold-valued data: geodesic regression.

Cite

Text

Myers and Miolane. "On Accuracy and Speed of Geodesic Regression: Do Geometric Priors Improve Learning on Small Datasets?." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2024. doi:10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00277

Markdown

[Myers and Miolane. "On Accuracy and Speed of Geodesic Regression: Do Geometric Priors Improve Learning on Small Datasets?." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2024.](https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2024/myers2024cvprw-accuracy/) doi:10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00277

BibTeX

@inproceedings{myers2024cvprw-accuracy,
  title     = {{On Accuracy and Speed of Geodesic Regression: Do Geometric Priors Improve Learning on Small Datasets?}},
  author    = {Myers, Adele and Miolane, Nina},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops},
  year      = {2024},
  pages     = {2714-2722},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00277},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2024/myers2024cvprw-accuracy/}
}