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This paper investigates the deep learning optimization problem with softmax cross-entropy loss. We propose a layer separation strategy to alleviate the strong nonconvexity encountered during training deep networks. For cross-entropy models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yaru Liu , Michael K. Ng , Yiqi Gu

We consider linear prediction with a convex Lipschitz loss, or more generally, stochastic convex optimization problems of generalized linear form, i.e.~where each instantaneous loss is a scalar convex function of a linear function. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Idan Amir , Roi Livni , Nathan Srebro

We propose an extended generalization of the pseudo Huber loss formulation. We show that using the log-exp transform together with the logistic function, we can create a loss which combines the desirable properties of the strictly convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-24 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

In this paper, we focus on the separability of classes with the cross-entropy loss function for classification problems by theoretically analyzing the intra-class distance and inter-class distance (i.e. the distance between any two points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Rudrajit Das , Subhasis Chaudhuri

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

Statistical decision problems lie at the heart of statistical machine learning. The simplest problems are binary and multiclass classification and class probability estimation. Central to their definition is the choice of loss function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Robert C. Williamson , Zac Cranko

The softmax cross-entropy loss function has been widely used to train deep models for various tasks. In this work, we propose a Gaussian mixture (GM) loss function for deep neural networks for visual classification. Unlike the softmax…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Weitao Wan , Jiansheng Chen , Cheng Yu , Tong Wu , Yuanyi Zhong , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We consider supervised learning problems in which set predictions provide explicit uncertainty estimates. Using Choquet integrals (a.k.a. Lov{\'a}sz extensions), we propose a convex loss function for nondecreasing subset-valued functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Francis Bach

We introduce a new class of convex-regularized Optimal Transport losses, which generalizes the classical Entropy-regularization of Optimal Transport and Sinkhorn divergences, and propose a generalized Sinkhorn algorithm. Our framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Simone Di Marino , Augusto Gerolin

Distance metric learning (DML) is to learn the embeddings where examples from the same class are closer than examples from different classes. It can be cast as an optimization problem with triplet constraints. Due to the vast number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Qi Qian , Lei Shang , Baigui Sun , Juhua Hu , Hao Li , Rong Jin

The loss functions of deep neural networks are complex and their geometric properties are not well understood. We show that the optima of these complex loss functions are in fact connected by simple curves over which training and test…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-31 Timur Garipov , Pavel Izmailov , Dmitrii Podoprikhin , Dmitry Vetrov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Researches using margin based comparison loss demonstrate the effectiveness of penalizing the distance between face feature and their corresponding class centers. Despite their popularity and excellent performance, they do not explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ying Huang , Shangfeng Qiu , Wenwei Zhang , Xianghui Luo , Jinzhuo Wang

Fenchel-Young losses are a family of convex loss functions, encompassing the squared, logistic and sparsemax losses, among others. Each Fenchel-Young loss is implicitly associated with a link function, for mapping model outputs to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-24 Seta Rakotomandimby , Jean-Philippe Chancelier , Michel de Lara , Mathieu Blondel

Recently, the robustness of deep learning models has received widespread attention, and various methods for improving model robustness have been proposed, including adversarial training, model architecture modification, design of loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Hao Wang , Chen Li , Jinzhe Jiang , Xin Zhang , Yaqian Zhao , Weifeng Gong

In the field of pattern classification, the training of deep learning classifiers is mostly end-to-end learning, and the loss function is the constraint on the final output (posterior probability) of the network, so the existence of Softmax…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Qiuyu Zhu , Xuewen Zu

Ranking tasks constitute fundamental components of extreme similarity learning frameworks, where extremely large corpora of objects are modeled through relative similarity relationships adhering to predefined ordinal structures. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yuanhao Pu , Defu Lian , Xiaolong Chen , Xu Huang , Jin Chen , Enhong Chen

We propose integrating optimal transport (OT) into operator learning for partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex geometries. Classical geometric learning methods typically represent domains as meshes, graphs, or point clouds. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinyi Li , Zongyi Li , Nikola Kovachki , Anima Anandkumar

We study the problem of transfer learning, observing that previous efforts to understand its information-theoretic limits do not fully exploit the geometric structure of the source and target domains. In contrast, our study first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Xuhui Zhang , Jose Blanchet , Soumyadip Ghosh , Mark S. Squillante

Learning with a {\it convex loss} function has been a dominating paradigm for many years. It remains an interesting question how non-convex loss functions help improve the generalization of learning with broad applicability. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yi Xu , Shenghuo Zhu , Sen Yang , Chi Zhang , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

In this paper, we study large-scale convex optimization algorithms based on the Newton method applied to regularized generalized self-concordant losses, which include logistic regression and softmax regression. We first prove that our new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Ulysse Marteau-Ferey , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi