Multi‐sample inference network

2019

IET Computer Vision, Vol 13, Iss 6, Pp 605-613 (2019)

This study explores whether neural networks can classify multiple samples simultaneously in a forward process. Therefore, a multi‐input multi‐prediction network architecture has been proposed. The authors call this method a multi‐sample inference network (MSIN). In addition to maximising the use of network shared parameters, the network can also use multiple samples for training. MSIN allows multiple samples to be randomly combined to act as data augmentation, and the random combination of corresponding labels can regularise the network as a loss regularisation, which makes MSIN have better generalisation performance. In contrast, category expansion is a problem that is difficult to solve because neural networks can only predict a fixed number of categories. The network proposed in this study can solve the category expansion problem by expanding the initial layers and the final layers. It is trained by using samples of multiple domains at the same time to ensure that the network has no significant decline in the predictive performance of the existing categories. The MSIN method can also be applied to the generative adversarial network to enable it to simultaneously generate samples of multiple sample domains.

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English

Wiley, 2019.

multisample inference network, neural networks, multiinput multiprediction network architecture, MSIN, network shared parameters, generative adversarial network, Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, R858-859.7, Computer software, QA76.75-76.765