Rare-Aware Autoencoding: Reconstructing Spatially Imbalanced Data

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Last proof check: 2026-04-03
Score updated: 2026-04-03
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Coverage: 33%

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Claims: 8

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Freshness state: computing

Source paper: Rare-Aware Autoencoding: Reconstructing Spatially Imbalanced Data

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02031v1

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In practice, autoencoders are biased toward dominant patterns resulting in the loss of fine-grained detail and causing blurred reconstructions for rare spatial inputs especially under spatial data imbalance.
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We address spatial imbalance by two complementary components: (i) self-entropy-based loss that upweights statistically uncommon spatial locations and (ii) Sample Propagation, a replay mechanism that selectively re-exposes the model to hard to reconstruct samples across batches during training.
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Our approach outperforms baselines on various reconstruction metrics, particularly under spatial imbalance distributions.
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Our method specifically targets spatial imbalance by encouraging models to focus on statistically rare locations, improving reconstruction consistency compared to existing baselines.
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We validate in a simulated dataset with controlled spatial imbalance conditions, and in three, uncontrolled, diverse real-world datasets spanning physical, biological, and astronomical domains.
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We benchmark existing data balancing strategies, originally developed for supervised classification, in the unsupervised reconstruction setting. Drawing on the limitations of these approaches...
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This is common in medical imaging, biology, and physics, where informative patterns occur rarely at specific image coordinates, as background dominates these locations in most samples...
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These results highlight the importance of data representation in a batch and emphasize rare samples in unsupervised image reconstruction.
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