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Integrate Baseline VLM and Hierarchical Models - P6 #1587

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@kelseylmartin

Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, Please describe.
There were two final architectures that we would like to see included in VIAME: VLM and hierarchical models.

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Modernize detector architectures - integrate baseline VLM and hierarchical models

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  1. csbrown-noaa commented on Apr 22, 2026

    @csbrown-noaa

    FYI, We have some model training pipelines and weights for hierarchical inference on the GFISHER data already. The major caveat there w.r.t. the UI/UX is that the output prob vector conflicts with standard postprocessing of "flat" predictions - e.g. P("Animalia") is always strictly greater than P("Felis catus") because all Felidae are Animalia by definition, so doing things like "taking the largest probability class" will always select "Biota" and never anything else. Happy to discuss further.

  2. PaulHax commented on Aug 21, 2026

    @PaulHax
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    Hi y'all. Some related "higherachrical type" UI work is coming together here:
    #1867

    The type hierarchy, like a domain to species taxonomy, can be defined in an imported kwcoco file:

     "categories": [
        { "id": 1, "name": "fish", "keypoints": ["head", "tail"] },
        { "id": 2, "name": "shark", "supercategory": "fish" },
        { "id": 3, "name": "crab" }
      ],
      "annotations": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "image_id": 1,
          "category_id": 2,
          "score": 0.97,
          "prob": [0.03, 0.97, 0],
          "dive_confidence_pairs": [["shark", 0.97], ["fish", 0.03]],
          "track_id": 42
        }
    
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