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Learning systems match predicted scores to observations over some domain. Often, it is critical to produce accurate predictions in some subset (or region) of the domain, yet less important to accurately predict in other regions. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Gil I. Shamir , Manfred K. Warmuth

Real-world sensor-based learning systems require uncertainty estimation that is both reliable and computationally efficient. Evidential Deep Learning (EDL) provides single-pass uncertainty estimation by modeling the class probabilities via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Berk Hayta , Hannah Laus , Simon Mittermaier , Felix Krahmer

This paper presents a deep relational metric learning (DRML) framework for image clustering and retrieval. Most existing deep metric learning methods learn an embedding space with a general objective of increasing interclass distances and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Wenzhao Zheng , Borui Zhang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

In metric learning, the goal is to learn an embedding so that data points with the same class are close to each other and data points with different classes are far apart. We propose a distance-ratio-based (DR) formulation for metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Hyeongji Kim , Pekka Parviainen , Ketil Malde

The popular softmax loss and its recent extensions have achieved great success in the deep learning-based image classification. However, the data for training image classifiers usually has different quality. Ignoring such problem, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Weihua Liu , Xiabi Liu , Murong Wang , Ling Ma

Recently, deep learning has been widely used in the field of vehicle re-identification. When training a deep model, softmax loss is usually used as a supervision tool. However, the softmax loss performs well for closed-set tasks, but not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Zhijun Hu , Yong Xu , Jie Wen , Lilei Sun , Raja S P

A common practice in most of deep convolutional neural architectures is to employ fully-connected layers followed by Softmax activation to minimize cross-entropy loss for the sake of classification. Recent studies show that substitution or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Arash Shahriari

In this paper, we propose a Dual Focal Loss (DFL) function, as a replacement for the standard cross entropy (CE) function to achieve a better treatment of the unbalanced classes in a dataset. Our DFL method is an improvement on the recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Md Sazzad Hossain , Andrew P Paplinski , John M Betts

Deep metric learning (DML) is a cornerstone of many computer vision applications. It aims at learning a mapping from the input domain to an embedding space, where semantically similar objects are located nearby and dissimilar objects far…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Pingchuan Ma , Vadim Tschernezki , Björn Ommer

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained with the Softmax loss are widely used classification models for several vision tasks. Typically, a learnable transformation (i.e. the classifier) is placed at the end of such models returning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Federico Pernici , Matteo Bruni , Claudio Baecchi , Alberto Del Bimbo

This paper presents a comprehensive review of loss functions and performance metrics in deep learning, highlighting key developments and practical insights across diverse application areas. We begin by outlining fundamental considerations…

Metric learning aims to construct an embedding where two extracted features corresponding to the same identity are likely to be closer than features from different identities. This paper presents a method for learning such a feature space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Nicolai Wojke , Alex Bewley

Metric learning aims to embed one metric space into another to benefit tasks like classification and clustering. Although a greatly distorted metric space has a high degree of freedom to fit training data, it is prone to overfitting and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Renjie Liao , Jianping Shi , Ziyang Ma , Jun Zhu , Jiaya Jia

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

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 metric learning aims at learning the distance metric between pair of samples, through the deep neural networks to extract the semantic feature embeddings where similar samples are close to each other while dissimilar samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Haijun Liu , Jian Cheng , Wen Wang , Yanzhou Su

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often prone to learn the spurious correlations between target classes and bias attributes, like gender and race, inherent in a major portion of training data (bias-aligned samples), thus showing unfair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mei Wang , Weihong Deng , Jiani Hu , Sen Su

In neural networks, the loss function represents the core of the learning process that leads the optimizer to an approximation of the optimal convergence error. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) use the loss function as a supervisory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Riccardo La Grassa , Ignazio Gallo , Nicola Landro

The softmax function is widely used in artificial neural networks for the multiclass classification problems, where the softmax transformation enforces the output to be positive and sum to one, and the corresponding loss function allows to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Shaoshi Sun , Zhenyuan Zhang , BoCheng Huang , Pengbin Lei , Jianlin Su , Shengfeng Pan , Jiarun Cao

Manifold learning (ML) aims to seek low-dimensional embedding from high-dimensional data. The problem is challenging on real-world datasets, especially with under-sampling data, and we find that previous methods perform poorly in this case.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Zelin Zang , Siyuan Li , Di Wu , Ge Wang , Lei Shang , Baigui Sun , Hao Li , Stan Z. Li