In plain words: Each image is summarized by how its patterns change and classified by matching the summary to a few labeled examples, without training. It hit 100% accuracy and ran far faster than other methods, but only if the right scale factor is chosen per category at test time.
Abstract · Learning with Signatures
In this work we investigate the use of the Signature Transform in the context of Learning. Under this assumption, we advance a supervised framework that potentially provides state-of-the-art classification accuracy with the use of few labels without the need of credit assignment and with minimal or no overfitting. We leverage tools from harmonic analysis by the use of the signature and log-signature, and use as a score function RMSE and MAE Signature and log-signature. We develop a closed-form equation to compute probably good optimal scale factors, as well as the formulation to obtain them by optimization. Techniques of Signal Processing are addressed to further characterize the problem. Classification is performed at the CPU level orders of magnitude faster than other methods. We report results on AFHQ, MNIST and CIFAR10, achieving 100% accuracy on all tasks assuming we can determine at test time which probably good optimal scale factor to use for each category.
J. de Curtò, I. de Zarzà, Hong Yan, Carlos T. Calafate
arXiv:2204.07953 · cs.CV · submitted Apr 17, 2022 · updated May 19, 2022
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Also, reading the paper a bit, it's either badly written and I just don't understand what they're saying at all, or BS. It doesn't really explain anything about their implementation, it just says they did do and got 100% accuracy, and throws in a bunch of jargon. Maybe I'm just not familiar with this area enough, but the way it's laid out raises even more red flags