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ProtoDiff: Learning to Learn Prototypical Networks by Task-Guided Diffusion
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Measured effects reported in the paper
| What was changed | Where | Measured | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| replace diffusion model with VAE (ablation) | ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 66.63 -> 64.45 | Hurt |
| replace diffusion model with normalizing flows (ablation) | ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 66.63 -> 65.11 | Hurt |
| replace diffusion model with MLP or Transformer (non-generative) (ablation) | ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 66.63 -> 64.15 (MLP), 64.97 (Transformer) | Hurt |
| add residual prototype learning (ablation) | ProtoDiff · miniImageNet | accuracy (%) | Helped |
| increase Monte Carlo prototype samples from 1 to 50 | Meta-Baseline + ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 66.63 -> 69.14 | Helped |
| increase Monte Carlo prototype samples from 1 to 50 | FEAT + ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 68.97 -> 72.25 | Helped |
| increase samples beyond 50 (to 1000) | Meta-Baseline + ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 69.14 -> 69.11 | No clear effect |
| increase diffusion timesteps from 10 to 100 (ablation) | ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 63.98 -> 66.63 | Helped |
| increase diffusion timesteps from 100 to 1000 (ablation) | ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 66.63 -> 66.74 | No clear effect |
| increase transformer depth from 12 to 15 layers (ablation) | ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 66.63 -> 64.15 | Hurt |
| increase attention heads from 1 to 16 (ablation) | ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 63.28 -> 66.63 | Helped |
| increase DDIM interval tau from 10 to 100 (ablation) | ProtoDiff · miniImageNet 5-way 1-shot | accuracy (%): 66.63 -> 63.15 | Hurt |
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