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While machine learning (ML) architectures have evolved rapidly to account for complex data, loss functions like cross-entropy remain mostly structure-agnostic in many real-world applications. However, the `class-symmetric' nature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yasser Taha , Grégoire Montavon , Nils Körber

Under distribution shift (DS) where the training data distribution differs from the test one, a powerful technique is importance weighting (IW) which handles DS in two separate steps: weight estimation (WE) estimates the test-over-training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Tongtong Fang , Nan Lu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Deep learning has been demonstrated with tremendous success in recent years. Despite so, its performance in practice often degenerates drastically when encountering out-of-distribution (OoD) data, i.e. training and test data are sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Haoyue Bai

The accuracy of deep learning methods for two foundational tasks in medical image analysis -- detection and segmentation -- can suffer from class imbalance. We propose a `switching loss' function that adaptively shifts the emphasis between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Deepak Anand , Gaurav Patel , Yaman Dang , Amit Sethi

Class Incremental Semantic Segmentation (CISS) aims to mitigate catastrophic forgetting by maintaining a balance between previously learned and newly introduced knowledge. Existing methods, primarily based on regularization techniques like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zechao Sun , Shuying Piao , Haolin Jin , Chang Dong , Lin Yue , Weitong Chen , Luping Zhou

Semantic segmentation of histopathology images under class imbalance is typically addressed through frequency-based loss reweighting, which implicitly assumes that rare classes are difficult. However, true difficulty also arises from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Lakmali Nadeesha Kumari , Sen-Ching Samson Cheung

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance on a range of classification tasks, with softmax cross-entropy (CE) loss emerging as the de-facto objective function. The CE loss encourages features of a class to have a higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Muzammal Naseer , Munawar Hayat , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

This technical report describes our system that is submitted to the Deep Noise Suppression Challenge and presents the results for the non-real-time track. To refine the estimation results stage by stage, we utilize recursive learning, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Renhua Peng , Linjuan Cheng , Xiaodong Li

We present a formulation of deep learning that aims at producing a large margin classifier. The notion of margin, minimum distance to a decision boundary, has served as the foundation of several theoretically profound and empirically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-05 Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Dilip Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi , Kevin Regan , Samy Bengio

Assisted by the availability of data and high performance computing, deep learning techniques have achieved breakthroughs and surpassed human performance empirically in difficult tasks, including object recognition, speech recognition, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Shaeke Salman , Xiuwen Liu

This paper investigates the impact of loss function selection in deep unfolding techniques for sparse signal recovery algorithms. Deep unfolding transforms iterative optimization algorithms into trainable lightweight neural networks by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Koshi Nagahisa , Ryo Hayakawa , Youji Iiguni

The performance of deep neural networks improves with more annotated data. The problem is that the budget for annotation is limited. One solution to this is active learning, where a model asks human to annotate data that it perceived as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Donggeun Yoo , In So Kweon

Labeling a training set is often expensive and susceptible to errors, making the design of robust loss functions for label noise an important problem. The symmetry condition provides theoretical guarantees for robustness to such noise. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Alexandre Lemire Paquin , Brahim Chaib-Draa , Philippe Giguère

Cluster assignment of large and complex images is a crucial but challenging task in pattern recognition and computer vision. In this study, we explore the possibility of employing fuzzy clustering in a deep neural network framework. Thus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Dayu Tan , Zheng Huang , Xin Peng , Weimin Zhong , Vladimir Mahalec

Listwise learning-to-rank methods form a powerful class of ranking algorithms that are widely adopted in applications such as information retrieval. These algorithms learn to rank a set of items by optimizing a loss that is a function of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Sebastian Bruch

Missing data is an universal problem in statistics. We develop a unified framework for estimating parameters defined by general estimating equations under a missing-at-random (MAR) mechanism, based on generalized entropy calibration…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-31 Mst Moushumi Pervin , Hengfang Wang , Jae Kwang Kim

Question answering methods are well-known for leveraging data bias, such as the language prior in visual question answering and the position bias in machine reading comprehension (extractive question answering). Current debiasing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jie Ma , Pinghui Wang , Zewei Wang , Dechen Kong , Min Hu , Ting Han , Jun Liu

Many tasks in natural language processing can be viewed as multi-label classification problems. However, most of the existing models are trained with the standard cross-entropy loss function and use a fixed prediction policy (e.g., a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Jiawei Wu , Wenhan Xiong , William Yang Wang

The imperative of user privacy protection and regulatory compliance necessitates sensitive data removal in model training, yet this process often induces distributional shifts that undermine model performance-particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Wenhao Yang , Lin Li , Xiaohui Tao , Kaize Shi

The generalization performance of deep neural networks in classification tasks is a major concern in machine learning research. Despite widespread techniques used to diminish the over-fitting issue such as data augmentation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Mohammad Lashkari , Amin Gheibi