scholarly journals Quantum semi-supervised generative adversarial network for enhanced data classification

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kouhei Nakaji ◽  
Naoki Yamamoto

AbstractIn this paper, we propose the quantum semi-supervised generative adversarial network (qSGAN). The system is composed of a quantum generator and a classical discriminator/classifier (D/C). The goal is to train both the generator and the D/C, so that the latter may get a high classification accuracy for a given dataset. Hence the qSGAN needs neither any data loading nor to generate a pure quantum state, implying that qSGAN is much easier to implement than many existing quantum algorithms. Also the generator can serve as a stronger adversary than a classical one thanks to its rich expressibility, and it is expected to be robust against noise. These advantages are demonstrated in a numerical simulation.

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2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Xin Jin ◽  
Yuanwen Zou ◽  
Zhongbing Huang

The cell cycle is an important process in cellular life. In recent years, some image processing methods have been developed to determine the cell cycle stages of individual cells. However, in most of these methods, cells have to be segmented, and their features need to be extracted. During feature extraction, some important information may be lost, resulting in lower classification accuracy. Thus, we used a deep learning method to retain all cell features. In order to solve the problems surrounding insufficient numbers of original images and the imbalanced distribution of original images, we used the Wasserstein generative adversarial network-gradient penalty (WGAN-GP) for data augmentation. At the same time, a residual network (ResNet) was used for image classification. ResNet is one of the most used deep learning classification networks. The classification accuracy of cell cycle images was achieved more effectively with our method, reaching 83.88%. Compared with an accuracy of 79.40% in previous experiments, our accuracy increased by 4.48%. Another dataset was used to verify the effect of our model and, compared with the accuracy from previous results, our accuracy increased by 12.52%. The results showed that our new cell cycle image classification system based on WGAN-GP and ResNet is useful for the classification of imbalanced images. Moreover, our method could potentially solve the low classification accuracy in biomedical images caused by insufficient numbers of original images and the imbalanced distribution of original images.


Author(s):  
Cara Murphy ◽  
John Kerekes

The classification of trace chemical residues through active spectroscopic sensing is challenging due to the lack of physics-based models that can accurately predict spectra. To overcome this challenge, we leveraged the field of domain adaptation to translate data from the simulated to the measured domain for training a classifier. We developed the first 1D conditional generative adversarial network (GAN) to perform spectrum-to-spectrum translation of reflectance signatures. We applied the 1D conditional GAN to a library of simulated spectra and quantified the improvement in classification accuracy on real data using the translated spectra for training the classifier. Using the GAN-translated library, the average classification accuracy increased from 0.622 to 0.723 on real chemical reflectance data, including data from chemicals not included in the GAN training set.


Author(s):  
Wenqi Zhao ◽  
Satoshi Oyama ◽  
Masahito Kurihara

Counterfactual explanations help users to understand the behaviors of machine learning models by changing the inputs for the existing outputs. For an image classification task, an example counterfactual visual explanation explains: "for an example that belongs to class A, what changes do we need to make to the input so that the output is more inclined to class B." Our research considers changing the attribute description text of class A on the basis of the attributes of class B and generating counterfactual images on the basis of the modified text. We can use the prediction results of the model on counterfactual images to find the attributes that have the greatest effect when the model is predicting classes A and B. We applied our method to a fine-grained image classification dataset and used the generative adversarial network to generate natural counterfactual visual explanations. To evaluate these explanations, we used them to assist crowdsourcing workers in an image classification task. We found that, within a specific range, they improved classification accuracy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luning Bi ◽  
Guiping Hu

Traditionally, plant disease recognition has mainly been done visually by human. It is often biased, time-consuming, and laborious. Machine learning methods based on plant leave images have been proposed to improve the disease recognition process. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been adopted and proven to be very effective. Despite the good classification accuracy achieved by CNNs, the issue of limited training data remains. In most cases, the training dataset is often small due to significant effort in data collection and annotation. In this case, CNN methods tend to have the overfitting problem. In this paper, Wasserstein generative adversarial network with gradient penalty (WGAN-GP) is combined with label smoothing regularization (LSR) to improve the prediction accuracy and address the overfitting problem under limited training data. Experiments show that the proposed WGAN-GP enhanced classification method can improve the overall classification accuracy of plant diseases by 24.4% as compared to 20.2% using classic data augmentation and 22% using synthetic samples without LSR.


2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-627
Author(s):  
Kazim Firildak ◽  
Muhammed Fatih Talu

Pneumonia, featured by inflammation of the air sacs in one or both lungs, is usually detected by examining chest X-ray images. This paper probes into the classification models that can distinguish between normal and pneumonia images. As is known, trained networks like AlexNet and GoogleNet are deep network architectures, which are widely adopted to solve many classification problems. They have been adapted to the target datasets, and employed to classify new data generated through transfer learning. However, the classical architectures are not accurate enough for the diagnosis of pneumonia. Therefore, this paper designs a capsule network with high discrimination capability, and trains the network on Kaggle’s online pneumonia dataset, which contains chest X-ray images of many adults and children. The original dataset consists of 1,583 normal images, and 4,273 pneumonia images. Then, two data augmentation approaches were applied to the dataset, and their effects on classification accuracy were compared in details. The model parameters were optimized through five different experiments. The results show that the highest classification accuracy (93.91% even on small images) was achieved by the capsule network, coupled with data augmentation by generative adversarial network (GAN), using optimized parameters. This network outperformed the classical strategies.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel A. Stein ◽  
Betis Baheri ◽  
Daniel Chen ◽  
Ying Mao ◽  
Qiang Guan ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7433
Author(s):  
Michal Varga ◽  
Ján Jadlovský ◽  
Slávka Jadlovská

In this paper, we propose a methodology for generative enhancement of existing 3D image classifiers. This methodology is based on combining the advantages of both non-generative classifiers and generative modeling. Its purpose is to streamline the synthesis of novel deep neural networks by embedding existing compatible classifiers into a generative network architecture. A demonstration of this process and evaluation of its effectiveness is performed using a 3D convolutional classifier and its generative equivalent—a 3D conditional generative adversarial network classifier. The results of the experiments show that the generative classifier delivers higher performance, gaining a relative classification accuracy improvement of 7.43%. An increase of accuracy is also observed when comparing it to a plain convolutional classifier that was trained on a dataset augmented with samples created by the trained generator. This suggests a desirable knowledge sharing mechanism exists within the hybrid discriminator-classifier network.


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