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Spectral risk-based learning using unbounded losses

Machine Learning 2021-05-12 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

In this work, we consider the setting of learning problems under a wide class of spectral risk (or "L-risk") functions, where a Lipschitz-continuous spectral density is used to flexibly assign weight to extreme loss values. We obtain excess risk guarantees for a derivative-free learning procedure under unbounded heavy-tailed loss distributions, and propose a computationally efficient implementation which empirically outperforms traditional risk minimizers in terms of balancing spectral risk and misclassification error.

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@article{arxiv.2105.04816,
  title  = {Spectral risk-based learning using unbounded losses},
  author = {Matthew J. Holland and El Mehdi Haress},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.04816},
  year   = {2021}
}
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