@inproceedings{
tan2024interpret,
title={Interpret Your Decision: Logical Reasoning Regularization for Generalization in Visual Classification},
author={Zhaorui Tan and Xi Yang and Qiufeng Wang and Anh Nguyen and Kaizhu Huang},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=Woiqqi5bYV}
}
Vision models excel in image classification but struggle to generalize to unseen data, such as classifying images from unseen domains or discovering novel categories. In this paper, we explore the relationship between logical reasoning and deep learning generalization in visual classification. A logical regularization termed L-Reg is derived which bridges a logical analysis framework to image classification. Our work reveals that L-Reg reduces the complexity of the model in terms of the feature distribution and classifier weights. Specifically, we unveil the interpretability brought by L-Reg, as it enables the model to extract the salient features, such as faces to persons, for classification. Theoretical analysis and experiments demonstrate that L-Reg enhances generalization across various scenarios, including multi-domain generalization and generalized category discovery. In complex real-world scenarios where images span unknown classes and unseen domains, L-Reg consistently improves generalization, highlighting its practical efficacy.
Interpret Your Decision: Logical Reasoning Regularization for Generalization in Visual Classification
Zhaorui Tan Xi Yang Qiufeng Wang Anh Nguyen Kaizhu Huang