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Learning deep representations to solve complex machine learning tasks has become the prominent trend in the past few years. Indeed, Deep Neural Networks are now the golden standard in domains as various as computer vision, natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Vincent Gripon , Carlos Lassance , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene

Deep neural networks have proved to be a very effective way to perform classification tasks. They excel when the input data is high dimensional, the relationship between the input and the output is complicated, and the number of labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Nicholas Frosst , Geoffrey Hinton

When training neural networks as classifiers, it is common to observe an increase in average test loss while still maintaining or improving the overall classification accuracy on the same dataset. In spite of the ubiquity of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Arthur E. W. Venter , Marthinus W. Theunissen , Marelie H. Davel

While a lot of progress has been made in recent years, the dynamics of learning in deep nonlinear neural networks remain to this day largely misunderstood. In this work, we study the case of binary classification and prove various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Remi Tachet , Mohammad Pezeshki , Samira Shabanian , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Differentiable logics (DL) have recently been proposed as a method of training neural networks to satisfy logical specifications. A DL consists of a syntax in which specifications are stated and an interpretation function that translates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Natalia Ślusarz , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew L. Daggitt , Robert Stewart , Kathrin Stark

Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a well-known weakness of Deep Neural networks. While most of the studies focus on single-task neural networks with computer vision datasets, very little research has considered complex multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Deep neural networks have proven remarkably effective at solving many classification problems, but have been criticized recently for two major weaknesses: the reasons behind their predictions are uninterpretable, and the predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Andrew Slavin Ross , Finale Doshi-Velez

This paper illustrates the central role of loss functions in data-driven decision making, providing a comprehensive survey on their influence in cost-sensitive classification (CSC) and reinforcement learning (RL). We demonstrate how…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-07 Kaiwen Wang , Nathan Kallus , Wen Sun

A successful deep learning network is highly dependent not only on the training dataset, but the training algorithm used to condition the network for a given task. The loss function, dataset, and tuning of hyperparameters all play an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ashley Lenau , Dennis Dimiduk , Stephen R. Niezgoda

Loss function learning is a new meta-learning paradigm that aims to automate the essential task of designing a loss function for a machine learning model. Existing techniques for loss function learning have shown promising results, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Deep-learning has proved in recent years to be a powerful tool for image analysis and is now widely used to segment both 2D and 3D medical images. Deep-learning segmentation frameworks rely not only on the choice of network architecture but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Carole H Sudre , Wenqi Li , Tom Vercauteren , Sébastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

Classification, the process of assigning a label (or class) to an observation given its features, is a common task in many applications. Nonetheless in most real-life applications, the labels can not be fully explained by the observed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-07 Johan Barthélemy , Morgane Dumont , Timoteo Carletti

In recent years, deep perceptual loss has been widely and successfully used to train machine learning models for many computer vision tasks, including image synthesis, segmentation, and autoencoding. Deep perceptual loss is a type of loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Konstantina Nikolaidou , Prakash Chandra Chhipa , Nosheen Abid , Rajkumar Saini , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki

Incorrectly labelled training data are frustratingly ubiquitous in both benchmark and specially curated datasets. Such mislabelling clearly adversely affects the performance and generalizability of models trained through supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Nicholas Pellegrino , David Szczecina , Paul Fieguth

While being very successful in solving many downstream tasks, the application of deep neural networks is limited in real-life scenarios because of their susceptibility to domain shifts such as common corruptions, and adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tejaswini Medi , Julia Grabinski , Margret Keuper

Deep Learning (DL) is a machine learning procedure for artificial intelligence that analyzes the input data in detail by increasing neuron sizes and number of the hidden layers. DL has a popularity with the common improvements on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Gokhan Altan , Yakup Kutlu

We introduce a novel loss function for training deep learning architectures to perform classification. It consists in minimizing the smoothness of label signals on similarity graphs built at the output of the architecture. Equivalently, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Myriam Bontonou , Carlos Lassance , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Jian Tang , Antonio Ortega

Metric learning has become an attractive field for research on the latest years. Loss functions like contrastive loss, triplet loss or multi-class N-pair loss have made possible generating models capable of tackling complex scenarios with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Alfonso Medela , Artzai Picon

Neural networks are trained by minimizing a loss function that defines the discrepancy between the predicted model output and the target value. The selection of the loss function is crucial to achieve task-specific behaviour and highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Shakhnaz Akhmedova , Nils Körber

Most state-of-the-art machine learning techniques revolve around the optimisation of loss functions. Defining appropriate loss functions is therefore critical to successfully solving problems in this field. In this survey, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Lorenzo Ciampiconi , Adam Elwood , Marco Leonardi , Ashraf Mohamed , Alessandro Rozza