Affiliation:
1. Washington University in St. Louis, USA
2. The University of York, UK
Abstract
An
IDK classifier
is a computing component that categorizes inputs into one of a number of classes, if it is able to do so with the required level of confidence, otherwise it returns “I Don’t Know” (IDK).
IDK classifier cascades
have been proposed as a way of balancing the needs for fast response and high accuracy in classification-based machine perception. Efficient algorithms for the synthesis of IDK classifier cascades have been derived; however, the responsiveness of these cascades is highly dependent on the accuracy of predictions regarding the run-time behavior of the classifiers from which they are built. Accurate predictions of such run-time behavior is difficult to obtain for many of the classifiers used for perception. By applying the
algorithms using predictions
framework, we propose efficient algorithms for the synthesis of IDK classifier cascades that are
robust
to inaccurate predictions in the following sense: the IDK classifier cascades synthesized by our algorithms have short expected execution durations when the predictions are accurate, and these expected durations increase only within specified bounds when the predictions are inaccurate.
Funder
Innovate UK HICLASS
US National Science Foundation
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Hardware and Architecture,Software