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We present the Tamed Cross Entropy (TCE) loss function, a robust derivative of the standard Cross Entropy (CE) loss used in deep learning for classification tasks. However, unlike other robust losses, the TCE loss is designed to exhibit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Manuel Martinez , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In machine learning, the cost function is crucial because it measures how good or bad a system is. In image classification, well-known networks only consider modifying the network structures and applying cross-entropy loss at the end of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Trung Dung Do , Cheng-Bin Jin , Hakil Kim , Van Huan Nguyen

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

Object detection is an important task in computer vision which serves a lot of real-world applications such as autonomous driving, surveillance and robotics. Along with the rapid thrive of large-scale data, numerous state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Trong Huy Phan , Kazuma Yamamoto

Multitask learning (MTL) has become prominent for its ability to predict multiple tasks jointly, achieving better per-task performance with fewer parameters than single-task learning. Recently, decoder-focused architectures have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Narges Armanfard

Imbalanced datasets pose a considerable challenge in training deep learning (DL) models for medical diagnostics, particularly for segmentation tasks. Imbalance may be associated with annotation quality limited annotated datasets, rare…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Bashir Alam , Masa Cirkovic , Mete Harun Akcay , Md Kaf Shahrier , Sebastien Lafond , Hergys Rexha , Kurt Benke , Sepinoud Azimi , Janan Arslan

The cross entropy loss is widely used due to its effectiveness and solid theoretical grounding. However, as training progresses, the loss tends to focus on hard to classify samples, which may prevent the network from obtaining gains in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Barak Battash , Lior Wolf , Tamir Hazan

Despite the recent success of long-tailed object detection, almost all long-tailed object detectors are developed based on the two-stage paradigm. In practice, one-stage detectors are more prevalent in the industry because they have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Bo Li , Yongqiang Yao , Jingru Tan , Gang Zhang , Fengwei Yu , Jianwei Lu , Ye Luo

Cross-entropy loss has long been the standard choice for training deep neural networks, yet it suffers from interpretability limitations, unbounded weight growth, and inefficiencies that can contribute to costly training dynamics. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Maxwell Miller-Golub , Collin Coil , Kamil Faber , Marcin Pietron , Panpan Zheng , Pasquale Minervini , Roberto Corizzo

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to distinguish the sub-classes of the same category and its essential solution is to mine the subtle and discriminative regions. Convolution neural networks (CNNs), which employ the cross…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Siqing Zhang , Ruoyi Du , Dongliang Chang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

We propose a novel loss function for imbalanced classification. LDAM loss, which minimizes a margin-based generalization bound, is widely utilized for class-imbalanced image classification. Although, by using LDAM loss, it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Sota Kato , Kazuhiro Hotta

The softmax function is a widely used activation function in the output layers of neural networks, responsible for converting raw scores into class probabilities while introducing essential non-linearity. Implementing Softmax efficiently…

Deep neural network models degrade significantly in the long-tailed data distribution, with the overall training data dominated by a small set of classes in the head, and the tail classes obtaining less training examples. Addressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Brainard Philemon Jagati , Jitendra Tembhurne , Harsh Goud , Rudra Pratap Singh , Chandrashekhar Meshram

We examine here what type of predictive modelling, classification, or regression, using neural networks (NN), fits better the task of soft-demapping based post-processing in coherent optical communications, where the transmission channel is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Pedro J. Freire , Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky , Yevhenii Osadchuk , Sergei K. Turitsyn , Vahid Aref

Softmax loss is arguably one of the most popular losses to train CNN models for image classification. However, recent works have exposed its limitation on feature discriminability. This paper casts a new viewpoint on the weakness of softmax…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Xiaobo Wang , Shifeng Zhang , Zhen Lei , Si Liu , Xiaojie Guo , Stan Z. Li

Softmax loss is widely used in deep neural networks for multi-class classification, where each class is represented by a weight vector, a sample is represented as a feature vector, and the feature vector has the largest projection on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Yuhui Yuan , Kuiyuan Yang , Chao Zhang

Fine-tuning a deep network trained with the standard cross-entropy loss is a strong baseline for few-shot learning. When fine-tuned transductively, this outperforms the current state-of-the-art on standard datasets such as Mini-ImageNet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Guneet S. Dhillon , Pratik Chaudhari , Avinash Ravichandran , Stefano Soatto

Time series widely exists in real-world applications and many deep learning models have performed well on it. Current research has shown the importance of learning strategy for models, suggesting that the benefit is the order and size of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Chenxi Sun , Hongyan Li , Moxian Song , Derun Cai , Shenda Hong

We explore loss functions for fact verification in the FEVER shared task. While the cross-entropy loss is a standard objective for training verdict predictors, it fails to capture the heterogeneity among the FEVER verdict classes. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yuta Mukobara , Yutaro Shigeto , Masashi Shimbo

Up-to-date sea ice charts are crucial for safer navigation in ice-infested waters. Recently, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models show the potential to accelerate the generation of ice maps for large regions. However, results from CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Rafael Pires de Lima , Behzad Vahedi , Morteza Karimzadeh