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Historical user-item interaction datasets are essential in training modern recommender systems for predicting user preferences. However, the arbitrary user behaviors in most recommendation scenarios lead to a large volume of noisy data…

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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

Many interesting tasks in machine learning and computer vision are learned by optimising an objective function defined as a weighted linear combination of multiple losses. The final performance is sensitive to choosing the correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Rick Groenendijk , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers , Thomas Mensink

Training machine learning interatomic potentials often requires optimizing a loss function composed of three variables: potential energies, forces, and stress. The contribution of each variable to the total loss is typically weighted using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Daniel Ocampo , Daniela Posso , Reza Namakian , Wei Gao

Efficient hyperparameter or architecture search methods have shown remarkable results, but each of them is only applicable to searching for either hyperparameters (HPs) or architectures. In this work, we propose a unified pipeline, AutoHAS,…

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Deep recommender systems (DRS) are critical for current commercial online service providers, which address the issue of information overload by recommending items that are tailored to the user's interests and preferences. They have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Bo Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Yejing Wang , Wenqi Fan , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Supervised training of neural networks for classification is typically performed with a global loss function. The loss function provides a gradient for the output layer, and this gradient is back-propagated to hidden layers to dictate an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-09 Arild Nøkland , Lars Hiller Eidnes

In this paper, we propose to utilize Automated Machine Learning to adaptively search a neural architecture for deepfake detection. This is the first time to employ automated machine learning for deepfake detection. Based on our explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Ping Liu , Yuewei Lin , Yang He , Yunchao Wei , Liangli Zhen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Jingen Liu

Loss functions play an important role in training deep-network-based object detectors. The most widely used evaluation metric for object detection is Average Precision (AP), which captures the performance of localization and classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Chenxin Tao , Zizhang Li , Xizhou Zhu , Gao Huang , Yong Liu , Jifeng Dai

In real-world scenarios, most platforms collect both large-scale, naturally noisy implicit feedback and small-scale yet highly relevant explicit feedback. Due to the issue of data sparsity, implicit feedback is often the default choice for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yingqiang Ge , Mostafa Rahmani , Athirai Irissappane , Jose Sepulveda , James Caverlee , Fei Wang

Much of the focus in machine learning research is placed in creating new architectures and optimization methods, but the overall loss function is seldom questioned. This paper interprets machine learning from a multi-objective optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-22 Conrado Silva Miranda , Fernando José Von Zuben

The machine learning literature contains several constructions for prediction intervals that are intuitively reasonable but ultimately ad-hoc in that they do not come with provable performance guarantees. We present methods from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-25 Danijel Kivaranovic , Kory D. Johnson , Hannes Leeb

Learning from implicit feedback has become the standard paradigm for modern recommender systems. However, this setting is fraught with the persistent challenge of false negatives, where unobserved user-item interactions are not necessarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Minglei Yin , Chuanbo Hu , Bin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yanfang , Ye , Xin Li

Modern machine learning models can be accurate on average yet still make mistakes that dominate deployment cost. We introduce Locus, a distribution-free wrapper that produces a per-input loss-scale reliability score for a fixed prediction…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-03 Matheus Barreto , Mário de Castro , Thiago R. Ramos , Denis Valle , Rafael Izbicki

Loss function is crucial for model training and feature representation learning, conventional models usually regard facial attractiveness recognition task as a regression problem, and adopt MSE loss or Huber variant loss as supervision to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Lu Xu , Jinhai Xiang

Deep multi-task networks are of particular interest for autonomous driving systems. They can potentially strike an excellent trade-off between predictive performance, hardware constraints and efficient use of information from multiple types…

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A promising direction in deep learning research consists in learning representations and simultaneously discovering cluster structure in unlabeled data by optimizing a discriminative loss function. As opposed to supervised deep learning,…

Deep neural networks have become the default choice for many of the machine learning tasks such as classification and regression. Dropout, a method commonly used to improve the convergence of deep neural networks, generates an ensemble of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-11 Tal Kachman , Michal Moshkovitz , Michal Rosen-Zvi

The earth system is exceedingly complex and often chaotic in nature, making prediction incredibly challenging: we cannot expect to make perfect predictions all of the time. Instead, we look for specific states of the system that lead to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Elizabeth A. Barnes , Randal J. Barnes

Typically, loss functions, regularization mechanisms and other important aspects of training parametric models are chosen heuristically from a limited set of options. In this paper, we take the first step towards automating this process,…