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Srinandan Dasmahapatra

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6 published item(s)

preprint2026arXiv

Mini-Batch Class Composition Bias in Link Prediction

Prior work on node classification has shown that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can learn representations that transfer across graphs, when underlying graph properties are shared. For a fixed graph, one would then expect GNNs trained for link prediction to learn a representation consistent with that learnt for node classification. We show this intuition does not hold in the general case. Instead, we find popular link prediction models can learn a trivial mini-batch dependent heuristic, enabled by batch-normalisation layers, to solve the edge classification task. When correcting for this, we observe increased alignment of the network representation with node-class relevant features, suggesting the network has learnt a graph representation that better aligns with the underlying graph's properties. Our findings suggest that standard link prediction training may be leading us to overestimate link predictors' ability to learn a generalised representation of a graph that is consistent across tasks.

preprint2026arXiv

Understanding Imbalanced Forgetting in Rehearsal-Based Class-Incremental Learning

Neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting in class-incremental learning (CIL) settings. Rehearsal$\unicode{x2013}$replaying a subset of past samples$\unicode{x2013}$is a well-established mitigation strategy. However, recent results suggest that, despite balanced rehearsal allocation, some classes are forgotten substantially more than others. Despite its relevance, this imbalanced forgetting phenomenon remains underexplored. This work shows that imbalanced forgetting arises systematically and severely in rehearsal-based CIL and investigates it extensively. Specifically, we construct, from a principled analysis, three last-layer coefficients that capture different gradient-level sources of interference affecting each past class during an incremental step. We then demonstrate that, together, they reliably predict how past classes will rank in terms of forgetting at the end of that step. While predictive performance alone does not establish causality, these results support the interpretation of the coefficients as a plausible mechanistic account linking last-layer gradient-level interactions during training to class-level forgetting outcomes. Notably, one coefficient$\unicode{x2013}$capturing self-induced interference$\unicode{x2013}$emerges as the strongest predictor, with controlled experiments providing evidence consistent with this coefficient being influenced by the new-class interference coefficient. Overall, our findings provide valuable insights and suggest promising directions for mitigating imbalanced forgetting by reducing class-wise disparities in the identified sources of interference.

preprint2022arXiv

"Teaching Independent Parts Separately" (TIPSy-GAN) : Improving Accuracy and Stability in Unsupervised Adversarial 2D to 3D Pose Estimation

We present TIPSy-GAN, a new approach to improve the accuracy and stability in unsupervised adversarial 2D to 3D human pose estimation. In our work we demonstrate that the human kinematic skeleton should not be assumed as a single spatially codependent structure; in fact, we posit when a full 2D pose is provided during training, there is an inherent bias learned where the 3D coordinate of a keypoint is spatially codependent on the 2D coordinates of all other keypoints. To investigate our hypothesis we follow previous adversarial approaches but train two generators on spatially independent parts of the kinematic skeleton, the torso and the legs. We find that improving the self-consistency cycle is key to lowering the evaluation error and therefore introduce new consistency constraints during training. A TIPSy model is produced via knowledge distillation from these generators which can predict the 3D ordinates for the entire 2D pose with improved results. Furthermore, we address an unanswered question in prior work of how long to train in a truly unsupervised scenario. We show that for two independent generators training adversarially has improved stability than that of a solo generator which collapses. TIPSy decreases the average error by 17\% when compared to that of a baseline solo generator on the Human3.6M dataset. TIPSy improves upon other unsupervised approaches while also performing strongly against supervised and weakly-supervised approaches during evaluation on both the Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP datasets.

preprint2022arXiv

Optimising 2D Pose Representation: Improve Accuracy, Stability and Generalisability Within Unsupervised 2D-3D Human Pose Estimation

This paper addresses the problem of 2D pose representation during unsupervised 2D to 3D pose lifting to improve the accuracy, stability and generalisability of 3D human pose estimation (HPE) models. All unsupervised 2D-3D HPE approaches provide the entire 2D kinematic skeleton to a model during training. We argue that this is sub-optimal and disruptive as long-range correlations are induced between independent 2D key points and predicted 3D ordinates during training. To this end, we conduct the following study. With a maximum architecture capacity of 6 residual blocks, we evaluate the performance of 5 models which each represent a 2D pose differently during the adversarial unsupervised 2D-3D HPE process. Additionally, we show the correlations between 2D key points which are learned during the training process, highlighting the unintuitive correlations induced when an entire 2D pose is provided to a lifting model. Our results show that the most optimal representation of a 2D pose is that of two independent segments, the torso and legs, with no shared features between each lifting network. This approach decreased the average error by 20\% on the Human3.6M dataset when compared to a model with a near identical parameter count trained on the entire 2D kinematic skeleton. Furthermore, due to the complex nature of adversarial learning, we show how this representation can also improve convergence during training allowing for an optimum result to be obtained more often.

preprint2022arXiv

Revisiting Jet Clustering Algorithms for New Higgs Boson Searches in Hadronic Final States

We assess the performance of different jet-clustering algorithms, in the presence of different resolution parameters and reconstruction procedures, in resolving fully hadronic final states emerging from the chain decay of the discovered Higgs boson into pairs of new identical Higgs states, the latter in turn decaying into bottom-antibottom quark pairs. We show that, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both the efficiency of selecting the multi-jet final state and the ability to reconstruct from it the masses of the Higgs bosons (potentially) present in an event sample depend strongly on the choice of acceptance cuts, jet-clustering algorithm as well as its settings. Hence, we indicate the optimal choice of the latter for the purpose of establishing such a benchmark Beyond the SM (BSM) signal.

preprint2021arXiv

Can Super Resolution be used to improve Human Pose Estimation in Low Resolution Scenarios?

The results obtained from state of the art human pose estimation (HPE) models degrade rapidly when evaluating people of a low resolution, but can super resolution (SR) be used to help mitigate this effect? By using various SR approaches we enhanced two low resolution datasets and evaluated the change in performance of both an object and keypoint detector as well as end-to-end HPE results. We remark the following observations. First we find that for people who were originally depicted at a low resolution (segmentation area in pixels), their keypoint detection performance would improve once SR was applied. Second, the keypoint detection performance gained is dependent on that persons pixel count in the original image prior to any application of SR; keypoint detection performance was improved when SR was applied to people with a small initial segmentation area, but degrades as this becomes larger. To address this we introduced a novel Mask-RCNN approach, utilising a segmentation area threshold to decide when to use SR during the keypoint detection step. This approach achieved the best results on our low resolution datasets for each HPE performance metrics.