ArticleFrontiers in artificial intelligence2026
GSARC: a group shuffle activated redundant connection framework for post-hoc feature space adaptation in skin lesion classification on the HAM10000 dataset.
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Introduction: Deep convolutional neural networks learn rich feature representations; however, the final classification head may not fully align with this feature space after end-to-end training, leading to underutilization of discriminative information. To address this limitation, we propose a lightweight post-hoc redundant head mechanism that improves feature-space adaptation without modifying or retraining the backbone network. Methods: The proposed approach introduces an additional shallow classification head trained from scratch on frozen feature representations augmented with frozen class logits. This design preserves training stability while enabling broader learning-rate exploration within an expanded signal space. The inclusion of frozen logits provides class-aware priors that stabilize optimization and support improved adaptation within the frozen feature manifold, allowing recovery of residual discriminative information with negligible computational overhead. The method was evaluated using a DenseNet-121 backbone enhanced with a Group-Squeeze-Excitation-Shuffle (GSSE) feature block on the HAM10000 skin lesion dataset through seven-class training and clinically relevant binary evaluation. Results: The proposed method improved binary classification accuracy from *91.06% to 92.42%* (+1.36 percentage points) and macro-averaged F1-score from *0.8588 to 0.8748* (+0.0160). It also outperformed the strongest baseline accuracy of *91.11%* by *1.31 percentage points*, while introducing only negligible computational overhead. Discussion: These findings demonstrate that lightweight post-hoc redundant head learning with logit-aware feature augmentation provides a stable, computationally efficient, and practical strategy for enhancing feature-space adaptation and improving medical image classification performance without requiring modification or retraining of the backbone network.
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