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In multi-label classification, where the evaluation of predictions is less straightforward than in single-label classification, various meaningful, though different, loss functions have been proposed. Ideally, the learning algorithm should…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Michael Rapp , Eneldo Loza Mencía , Johannes Fürnkranz , Vu-Linh Nguyen , Eyke Hüllermeier

Machine Learning has become very famous currently which assist in identifying the patterns from the raw data. Technological advancement has led to substantial improvement in Machine Learning which, thus helping to improve prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Prayag Tiwari , Massimo Melucci

We provide a unified framework that applies to a general family of convex losses across binary and multiclass settings in the overparameterized regime to approximately characterize the implicit bias of gradient descent in closed form.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-11 Kuo-Wei Lai , Vidya Muthukumar

Deep learning has been shown to achieve impressive results in several domains like computer vision and natural language processing. A key element of this success has been the development of new loss functions, like the popular cross-entropy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Francesco Giannini , Giuseppe Marra , Michelangelo Diligenti , Marco Maggini , Marco Gori

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

To analyze marine animals behavior, seasonal distribution and abundance, digital imagery can be acquired by visual or Lidar camera. Depending on the quantity and properties of acquired imagery, the animals are characterized as either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Zheng Cao , Shujian Yu , Bing Ouyang , Fraser Dalgleish , Anni Vuorenkoski , Gabriel Alsenas , Jose Principe

The focal loss has demonstrated its effectiveness in many real-world applications such as object detection and image classification, but its theoretical understanding has been limited so far. In this paper, we first prove that the focal…

We propose a new multiclass weighted loss function for instance segmentation of cluttered cells. We are primarily motivated by the need of developmental biologists to quantify and model the behavior of blood T-cells which might help us in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Fidel A. Guerrero-Pena , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Mary Yui , Ellen Rothenberg , Alexandre Cunha

This paper proposes a generic formulation that significantly expedites the training and deployment of image classification models, particularly under the scenarios of many image categories and high feature dimensions. As a defining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Fumin Shen , Yadong Mu , Wei Liu , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Applying standard machine learning approaches for classification can produce unequal results across different demographic groups. When then used in real-world settings, these inequities can have negative societal impacts. This has motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Preston Putzel , Scott Lee

Embedding approaches have become one of the most pervasive techniques for multi-label classification. However, the training process of embedding methods usually involves a complex quadratic or semidefinite programming problem, or the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Xiuwen Gong , Dong Yuan , Wei Bao

This paper analyzes and compares different deep learning loss functions in the framework of multi-label remote sensing (RS) image scene classification problems. We consider seven loss functions: 1) cross-entropy loss; 2) focal loss; 3)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Hichame Yessou , Gencer Sumbul , Begüm Demir

In this paper, we study data-dependent generalization error bounds exhibiting a mild dependency on the number of classes, making them suitable for multi-class learning with a large number of label classes. The bounds generally hold for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Yunwen Lei , Urun Dogan , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Marius Kloft

In most machine learning applications, classification accuracy is not the primary metric of interest. Binary classifiers which face class imbalance are often evaluated by the $F_\beta$ score, area under the precision-recall curve, Precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Alan Mackey , Xiyang Luo , Elad Eban

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained with logistic and softmax losses have made significant advancement in visual recognition tasks in computer vision. When training data exhibit class imbalances, the class-wise reweighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Xiangrui Li , Xin Li , Deng Pan , Dongxiao Zhu

Focal loss has recently gained significant popularity, particularly in tasks like object detection where it helps to address class imbalance by focusing more on hard-to-classify examples. This work proposes the focal loss as a distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

We present a new approach for mitigating unfairness in learned classifiers. In particular, we focus on binary classification tasks over individuals from two populations, where, as our criterion for fairness, we wish to achieve similar false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yahav Bechavod , Katrina Ligett

Contrastive learning, along with its variations, has been a highly effective self-supervised learning method across diverse domains. Contrastive learning measures the distance between representations using cosine similarity and uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Daniel Rho , TaeSoo Kim , Sooill Park , Jaehyun Park , JaeHan Park

The practical success of deep learning has led to the discovery of several surprising phenomena. One of these phenomena, that has spurred intense theoretical research, is ``benign overfitting'': deep neural networks seem to generalize well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ichiro Hashimoto , Stanislav Volgushev , Piotr Zwiernik

With advances in digital technology, the classification of medical images has become a crucial step for image-based clinical decision support systems. Automatic medical image classification represents a pivotal domain where the use of AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Abu Adnan Sadi , Labib Chowdhury , Nusrat Jahan , Mohammad Newaz Sharif Rafi , Radeya Chowdhury , Faisal Ahamed Khan , Nabeel Mohammed