分層式標籤已經被廣泛地運用在標註計算機視覺相關的任務上，例如有明確分層的圖像分類任務與隱式分層的語意分割任務。然而，在目前計算機視覺相關的任務上表現最好的模型與方法都是使用交叉熵，相當於隱式的假設了類別標籤之間並不具有分層的架構。 基於類別標籤與標籤之間必定具有某些相似性存在，我們提出了一種全新的模型訓練準則: Hierarchical Complement Objective Training (HCOT)，這個全新的訓練準則能夠有效的利用分層式標籤的資訊來訓練深度神經網絡。HCOT 嘗試要最大化正確類別的機率，且同時依照其餘類別與正確類別之間的分層關聯來平攤剩餘的機率分布，這麼做可以使模型有效地利用分層式標籤的優點。我們使用我們提出的全新訓練準則 HCOT 在圖像分類任務與語意分割任務上。實驗結果證實，使用了 HCOT 能夠超越現今存在最優的模型與訓練方法在 CIFAR-100, ImageNet-2012, and PASCAL-Context 訓練集上。我們額外的研究更表明，HCOT 能夠使用在所有擁有隱式分層的計算機視覺任務上。

Label hierarchies widely exist in many vision-related problems, ranging from explicit label hierarchies existed in image classification to latent label hierarchies existed in semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art methods often deploy cross-entropy loss that implicitly assumes class labels to be exclusive and thus independence from each other. Motivated by the fact that classes from the same parental category usually share certain similarity, we design a new training diagram called Hierarchical Complement Objective Training (HCOT) that leverages the information from label hierarchy. HCOT maximizes the probability of the ground truth class, and at the same time, neutralizes the probabilities of rest of the classes in a hierarchical fashion, making the model take advantage of the label hierarchy explicitly. The proposed HCOT is evaluated on both image classification and semantic segmentation tasks. Experimental results confirm that HCOT outperforms state-of-the-art models in CIFAR-100, ImageNet-2012, and PASCAL-Context. The study further demonstrates that HCOT can be applied on tasks with latent label hierarchies, which is a common characteristic in many machine learning tasks.

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