Estimating Classification Accuracy for Unlabeled Datasets Based on Block Scaling

Abstract

This paper proposes an approach called block scaling quality (BSQ) for estimating the prediction accuracy of a deep network model. The basic operation perturbs the input spectrogram by multiplying all values within a block by , where is equal to 0 in the experiments. The ratio of perturbed spectrograms that have different prediction labels than the original spectrogram to the total number of perturbed spectrograms indicates how much of the spectrogram is crucial for the prediction. Thus, this ratio is inversely correlated with the accuracy of the dataset. The BSQ approach demonstrates satisfactory estimation accuracy in experiments when compared with various other approaches. When using only the Jamendo and FMA datasets, the estimation accuracy experiences an average error of 4.9% and 1.8%, respectively. Moreover, the BSQ approach holds advantages over some of the comparison counterparts. Overall, it presents a promising approach for estimating the accuracy of a deep network model.

Keywords

• prediction accuracy estimation
• unlabeled dataset
• machine learning
• convolutional neural network
• vocal detection