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The logistic loss function is often advocated in machine learning and statistics as a smooth and strictly convex surrogate for the 0-1 loss. In this paper we investigate the question of whether these smoothness and convexity properties make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Elad Hazan , Tomer Koren , Kfir Y. Levy

The key task of machine learning is to minimize the loss function that measures the model fit to the training data. The numerical methods to do this efficiently depend on the properties of the loss function. The most decisive among these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Tomas Hrycej , Bernhard Bermeitinger , Massimo Pavone , Götz-Henrik Wiegand , Siegfried Handschuh

We suggest a loss for learning deep embeddings. The new loss does not introduce parameters that need to be tuned and results in very good embeddings across a range of datasets and problems. The loss is computed by estimating two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Evgeniya Ustinova , Victor Lempitsky

Researches using margin based comparison loss demonstrate the effectiveness of penalizing the distance between face feature and their corresponding class centers. Despite their popularity and excellent performance, they do not explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ying Huang , Shangfeng Qiu , Wenwei Zhang , Xianghui Luo , Jinzhuo Wang

Few-shot learning is a rapidly evolving area of research in machine learning where the goal is to classify unlabeled data with only one or "a few" labeled exemplary samples. Neural networks are typically trained to minimize a distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Samuel Hess , Gregory Ditzler

Siamese neural network is a very powerful architecture for both feature extraction and metric learning. It usually consists of several networks that share weights. The Siamese concept is topology-agnostic and can use any neural network as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Benyamin Ghojogh , Milad Sikaroudi , Sobhan Shafiei , H. R. Tizhoosh , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Robust loss functions are essential for training deep neural networks with better generalization power in the presence of noisy labels. Symmetric loss functions are confirmed to be robust to label noise. However, the symmetric condition is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xiong Zhou , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xin Gao , Xiangyang Ji

The gradient descent (GD) has been one of the most common optimizer in machine learning. In particular, the loss landscape of a neural network is typically sharpened during the initial phase of training, making the training dynamics hover…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-14 Han Bao , Shinsaku Sakaue , Yuki Takezawa

As a prevalent distributed learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model on a massive amount of devices with infrequent communication. This paper investigates a class of composite optimization and statistical recovery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yajie Bao , Michael Crawshaw , Shan Luo , Mingrui Liu

One of the main challenges for feature representation in deep learning-based classification is the design of appropriate loss functions that exhibit strong discriminative power. The classical softmax loss does not explicitly encourage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Xiong Zhou , Xianming Liu , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xin Gao , Xiangyang Ji

The study of a machine learning problem is in many ways is difficult to separate from the study of the loss function being used. One avenue of inquiry has been to look at these loss functions in terms of their properties as scoring rules…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Zac Cranko , Robert C. Williamson , Richard Nock

Estimating model accuracy on unseen, unlabeled datasets is crucial for real-world machine learning applications, especially under distribution shifts that can degrade performance. Existing methods often rely on predicted class probabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Chenzhi Liu , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Yanran Tang , Zi Huang , Ruihong Qiu

Existing approaches to lifelong language learning rely on plenty of labeled data for learning a new task, which is hard to obtain in most real scenarios. Considering that humans can continually learn new tasks from a handful of examples, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chengwei Qin , Shafiq Joty

Learning discriminative deep feature embeddings by using million-scale in-the-wild datasets and margin-based softmax loss is the current state-of-the-art approach for face recognition. However, the memory and computing cost of the Fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xiang An , Jiankang Deng , Jia Guo , Ziyong Feng , Xuhan Zhu , Jing Yang , Tongliang Liu

This work tackles the fundamental challenges in Federated Learning (FL) posed by arbitrary client participation and data heterogeneity, prevalent characteristics in practical FL settings. It is well-established that popular FedAvg-style…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bicheng Ying , Zhe Li , Haibo Yang

Recent state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are mostly based on deep neural networks, thanks to their high performance and fast computation time. However, these methods are usually trained in a supervised manner, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Boah Kim , Jong Chul Ye

We analyze the optimization landscape of a recently introduced tunable class of loss functions called $\alpha$-loss, $\alpha \in (0,\infty]$, in the logistic model. This family encapsulates the exponential loss ($\alpha = 1/2$), the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Tyler Sypherd , Mario Diaz , Lalitha Sankar , Gautam Dasarathy

Learning to generate a task-aware base learner proves a promising direction to deal with few-shot learning (FSL) problem. Existing methods mainly focus on generating an embedding model utilized with a fixed metric (eg, cosine distance) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Lei Zhang , Fei Zhou , Wei Wei , Yanning Zhang

We propose an extended generalization of the pseudo Huber loss formulation. We show that using the log-exp transform together with the logistic function, we can create a loss which combines the desirable properties of the strictly convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-24 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

Metric learning has become an attractive field for research on the latest years. Loss functions like contrastive loss, triplet loss or multi-class N-pair loss have made possible generating models capable of tackling complex scenarios with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Alfonso Medela , Artzai Picon