# United We Learn Better: Harvesting Learning Improvements From Class Hierarchies Across Tasks Source: [United We Learn Better: Harvesting Learning Improvements From Class Hierarchies Across Tasks]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-25T23:24:37.002Z Authors: Sindi Shkodrani, Yu Wang, Marco Manfredi, N\\'ora Baka Published: 2021-07-28T20:25:37.000Z ## Abstract Attempts of learning from hierarchical taxonomies in computer vision have been mostly focusing on image classification. Though ways of best harvesting learning improvements from hierarchies in classification are far from being solved, there is a need to target these problems in other vision tasks such as object detection. As progress on the classification side is often dependent on hierarchical cross-entropy losses, novel detection architectures using sigmoid as an output function instead of softmax cannot easily apply these advances, requiring novel methods in detection. In this work we establish a theoretical framework based on probability and set theory for extracting parent predictions and a hierarchical loss that can be used across tasks, showing results across classification and detection benchmarks and opening up the possibility of hierarchical learning for sigmoid-based detection architectures. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()