Equilibrium contrastive learning for imbalanced image classification

arXiv:2602.09506 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-02-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-02-10

Updated: 2026-10-12

Comments: 18 pages, 8 figures

DOI: 10.1109/TETCI.2026.3670635

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Contrastive Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Equilibrium Contrastive Learning — 2× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes

Sources

• Skin Lesion Analysis toward Melanoma Detection: A Challenge at the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2016, hosted by the International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC)
• CoNe: Contrast Your Neighbours for Supervised Image Classification
• Long-tail learning via logit adjustment

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