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In face recognition, designing margin-based (e.g., angular, additive, additive angular margins) softmax loss functions plays an important role in learning discriminative features. However, these hand-crafted heuristic methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Xiaobo Wang , Shuo Wang , Cheng Chi , Shifeng Zhang , Tao Mei

A good state representation is crucial to solving complicated reinforcement learning (RL) challenges. Many recent works focus on designing auxiliary losses for learning informative representations. Unfortunately, these handcrafted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Tairan He , Yuge Zhang , Kan Ren , Minghuan Liu , Che Wang , Weinan Zhang , Yuqing Yang , Dongsheng Li

Significant progress has been achieved in automating the design of various components in deep networks. However, the automatic design of loss functions for generic tasks with various evaluation metrics remains under-investigated. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Hao Li , Tianwen Fu , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li , Gao Huang , Xizhou Zhu

Designing an effective loss function plays a crucial role in training deep recommender systems. Most existing works often leverage a predefined and fixed loss function that could lead to suboptimal recommendation quality and training…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xiangyu Zhao , Haochen Liu , Wenqi Fan , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang , Chong Wang

Designing proper loss functions for vision tasks has been a long-standing research direction to advance the capability of existing models. For object detection, the well-established classification and regression loss functions have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Peidong Liu , Gengwei Zhang , Bochao Wang , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang , Yong Jiang , Zhenguo Li

In this paper, we develop upon the topic of loss function learning, an emergent meta-learning paradigm that aims to learn loss functions that significantly improve the performance of the models trained under them. Specifically, we propose a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Class-imbalanced node classification tasks are prevalent in real-world scenarios. Due to the uneven distribution of nodes across different classes, learning high-quality node representations remains a challenging endeavor. The engineering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xinyu Guo , Kai Wu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Jing Liu

Designing microstructures with coupled cross-physics objectives is a fundamental challenge where traditional topology optimization is often computationally prohibitive and deep generative models frequently suffer from physical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhenyuan Zhao , Yu Xing , Tianyang Xue , Lingxin Cao , Xin Yan , Lin Lu

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

Designing proper loss functions is essential in training deep networks. Especially in the field of semantic segmentation, various evaluation metrics have been proposed for diverse scenarios. Despite the success of the widely adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Hao Li , Chenxin Tao , Xizhou Zhu , Xiaogang Wang , Gao Huang , Jifeng Dai

In this paper, we develop upon the emerging topic of loss function learning, which aims to learn loss functions that significantly improve the performance of the models trained under them. Specifically, we propose a new meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Learning rate is widely regarded as crucial for effective foundation model pretraining. Recent research explores and demonstrates the transferability of learning rate configurations across varying model and dataset sizes, etc. Nevertheless,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hongyuan Dong , Dingkang Yang , Xiao Liang , Chao Feng , Jiao Ran

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks. However, current training approaches combine standard cross-entropy loss with extensive data, human feedback, or ad hoc methods to enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Daniele Rege Cambrin , Giuseppe Gallipoli , Irene Benedetto , Luca Cagliero , Paolo Garza

As the complexity of neural network models has grown, it has become increasingly important to optimize their design automatically through metalearning. Methods for discovering hyperparameters, topologies, and learning rate schedules have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Santiago Gonzalez , Risto Miikkulainen

Automatic performance tuning (auto-tuning) is essential for optimizing high-performance applications, where vast and irregular search spaces make manual exploration infeasible. While auto-tuners traditionally rely on classical approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Floris-Jan Willemsen , Niki van Stein , Ben van Werkhoven

Deep Metric Learning (DML) learns a non-linear semantic embedding from input data that brings similar pairs together while keeping dissimilar data away from each other. To this end, many different methods are proposed in the last decade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Davood Zabihzadeh , Zahraa Alitbi , Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad

Several supermodular losses have been shown to improve the perceptual quality of image segmentation in a discriminative framework such as a structured output support vector machine (SVM). These loss functions do not necessarily have the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Jiaqian Yu , Matthew B. Blaschko

In recommendation systems, the choice of loss function is critical since a good loss may significantly improve the model performance. However, manually designing a good loss is a big challenge due to the complexity of the problem. A large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Zelong Li , Jianchao Ji , Yingqiang Ge , Yongfeng Zhang

The loss function is crucial to machine learning, especially in supervised learning frameworks. It is a fundamental component that controls the behavior and general efficacy of learning algorithms. However, despite their widespread use,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Soumi Mahato , Lineesh M. C

Although Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has achieved notable success in numerous robotic applications, designing a high-performing reward function remains a challenging task that often requires substantial manual input. Recently, Large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jiayang Song , Zhehua Zhou , Jiawei Liu , Chunrong Fang , Zhan Shu , Lei Ma
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