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Learning Layer-Skippable Inference Network

Authors: Yu-Gang Jiang 0001; Changmao Cheng; Hangyu Lin; Yanwei Fu 0001;

Learning Layer-Skippable Inference Network

Abstract

The process of learning good representations for machine learning tasks can be very computationally expensive. Typically, we facilitate the same backbones learned on the training set to infer the labels of testing data. Interestingly, This learning and inference paradigm, however, is quite different from the typical inference scheme of human biological visual systems. Essentially, neuroscience studies have shown that the right hemisphere of the human brain predominantly makes a fast processing of low-frequency spatial signals, while the left hemisphere more focuses on analyzing high-frequency information in a slower way. And the low-pass analysis helps facilitate the high-pass analysis via a feedback form. Inspired by this biological vision mechanism, this paper explores the possibility of learning a layer-skippable inference network. Specifically, we propose a layer-skippable network that dynamically carries out coarse-tofine object categorization. Such a network has two branches to jointly deal with both coarse and fine-grained classification tasks. The layer-skipping mechanism is proposed to learn a gating network by generating dynamic inference graphs, and reducing the computational cost by detouring the inference path from some layers. This adaptive path inference strategy endows the network with better flexibility and larger capacity and makes the high-performance deep networks with dynamic structures. To efficiently train the gating network, a novel ranking-based loss function is presented. Furthermore, the learned representations are enhanced by the proposed top-down feedback facilitation and feature-wise affine transformation, individually. The former one employs features of a coarse branch to help the finegrained object recognition task, while the latter one encodes the selected path to enhance the final feature representations. Extensive experiments are conducted on several widely used coarse-to-fine object categorization benchmarks, and promising results are achieved by our proposed model. Quite surprisingly, our layer-skipping mechanism improves the network robustness to adversarial attacks. The codes and models are released on https://github.com/avalonstrel/DSN.

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