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We focus on the robustness of neural networks for classification. To permit a fair comparison between methods to achieve robustness, we first introduce a standard based on the mensuration of a classifier's degradation. Then, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Sadaf Gulshad , Arnold Smeulders

In this paper, the worst-case probability measure over the data is introduced as a tool for characterizing the generalization capabilities of machine learning algorithms. More specifically, the worst-case probability measure is a Gibbs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Xinying Zou , Samir M. Perlaza , Iñaki Esnaola , Eitan Altman

In many applications, data is collected in batches, some of which are corrupt or even adversarial. Recent work derived optimal robust algorithms for estimating discrete distributions in this setting. We consider a general framework of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-26 Ayush Jain , Alon Orlitsky

In the context of linear regression, we construct a data-driven convex loss function with respect to which empirical risk minimisation yields optimal asymptotic variance in the downstream estimation of the regression coefficients. At the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Oliver Y. Feng , Yu-Chun Kao , Min Xu , Richard J. Samworth

Object grasping is a crucial technology enabling robots to perceive and interact with the environment sufficiently. However, in practical applications, researchers are faced with missing or noisy ground truth while training the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yangfan Deng , Mengyao Zhang , Yong Zhao

Super-resolution using deep neural networks typically relies on highly curated training sets that are often unavailable in clinical deployment scenarios. Using loss functions that assume Gaussian-distributed residuals makes the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Suyash P. Awate

Deep neural networks have shown remarkable performance across a wide range of vision-based tasks, particularly due to the availability of large-scale datasets for training and better architectures. However, data seen in the real world are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Muhammad Usama , Dong Eui Chang

Gaussian process regression in its most simplified form assumes normal homoscedastic noise and utilizes analytically tractable mean and covariance functions of predictive posterior distribution using Gaussian conditioning. Its…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-20 Pooja Algikar , Lamine Mili

Neural networks are becoming central in several areas of computer vision and image processing and different architectures have been proposed to solve specific problems. The impact of the loss layer of neural networks, however, has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Hang Zhao , Orazio Gallo , Iuri Frosio , Jan Kautz

In the last several years, the intimate connection between convex optimization and learning problems, in both statistical and sequential frameworks, has shifted the focus of algorithmic machine learning to examine this interplay. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Mehrdad Mahdavi

We present a "learning to learn" approach for automatically constructing white-box classification loss functions that are robust to label noise in the training data. We parameterize a flexible family of loss functions using Taylor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Boyan Gao , Henry Gouk , Timothy M. Hospedales

We study the loss surface of a feed-forward neural network with ReLU non-linearities, regularized with weight decay. We show that the regularized loss function is piecewise strongly convex on an important open set which contains, under some…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tristan Milne

Brenier proved that under certain conditions on a source and a target probability measure there exists a strictly convex function such that its gradient is a transport map from the source to the target distribution. This function is called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Claudia Drygala , Hanno Gottschalk , Thomas Kruse , Ségolène Martin , Annika Mütze

The importance of domain knowledge in enhancing model performance and making reliable predictions in the real-world is critical. This has led to an increased focus on specific model properties for interpretability. We focus on incorporating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Akhil Gupta , Naman Shukla , Lavanya Marla , Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson , Kartik Yellepeddi

For classification, neural networks typically learn by minimizing cross-entropy, but are evaluated and compared using accuracy. This disparity suggests neural loss function search (NLFS), the search for a drop-in replacement loss function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Brandon Morgan , Dean Hougen

Robust loss functions are essential for training accurate deep neural networks (DNNs) in the presence of noisy (incorrect) labels. It has been shown that the commonly used Cross Entropy (CE) loss is not robust to noisy labels. Whilst new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Xingjun Ma , Hanxun Huang , Yisen Wang , Simone Romano , Sarah Erfani , James Bailey

Loss functions are at the heart of deep learning, shaping how models learn and perform across diverse tasks. They are used to quantify the difference between predicted outputs and ground truth labels, guiding the optimization process to…

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With the recent advancement in the deep learning technologies such as CNNs and GANs, there is significant improvement in the quality of the images reconstructed by deep learning based super-resolution (SR) techniques. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Ram Krishna Pandey , Nabagata Saha , Samarjit Karmakar , A G Ramakrishnan

Regression, unlike classification, has lacked a comprehensive and effective approach to deal with cost-sensitive problems by the reuse (and not a re-training) of general regression models. In this paper, a wide variety of cost-sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Jose Hernandez-Orallo

Existing generalization measures that aim to capture a model's simplicity based on parameter counts or norms fail to explain generalization in overparameterized deep neural networks. In this paper, we introduce a new, theoretically…

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