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During the training process, deep neural networks implicitly learn to represent the input data samples through a hierarchy of features, where the size of the hierarchy is determined by the number of layers. In this paper, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Diana-Nicoleta Grigore , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Classification models used in brain-computer interface (BCI) are usually designed for a single BCI paradigm. This requires the redevelopment of the model when applying it to a new BCI paradigm, resulting in repeated costs and effort.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Gaojie Zhou , Junhua Li

Neural network-based decisions tend to be overconfident, where their raw outcome probabilities do not align with the true decision probabilities. Calibration of neural networks is an essential step towards more reliable deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Geetanjali Bihani , Julia Taylor Rayz

Deep neural networks usually benefit from unsupervised pre-training, e.g. auto-encoders. However, the classifier further needs supervised fine-tuning methods for good discrimination. Besides, due to the limits of full-connection, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Hailin Shi , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhen Lei , Shengcai Liao , Stan Z. Li

Research has shown that deep networks tend to be overly optimistic about their predictions, leading to an underestimation of prediction errors. Due to the limited nature of data, existing studies have proposed various methods based on model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jia-Qi Yang , De-Chuan Zhan , Le Gan

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

Cross-entropy loss is the standard metric used to train classification models in deep learning and gradient boosting. It is well-known that this loss function fails to account for similarities between the different values of the target. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 Brian Lucena

While neural network binary classifiers are often evaluated on metrics such as Accuracy and $F_1$-Score, they are commonly trained with a cross-entropy objective. How can this training-evaluation gap be addressed? While specific techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Nathan Tsoi , Kate Candon , Deyuan Li , Yofti Milkessa , Marynel Vázquez

Deep Learning has become interestingly popular in computer vision, mostly attaining near or above human-level performance in various vision tasks. But recent work has also demonstrated that these deep neural networks are very vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Shashi Kant Gupta

Recent developments in AI have made it ubiquitous, every industry is trying to adopt some form of intelligent processing of their data. Despite so many advances in the field, AIs full capability is yet to be exploited by the industry.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Vishal Rajput

Clustering using deep autoencoders has been thoroughly investigated in recent years. Current approaches rely on simultaneously learning embedded features and clustering the data points in the latent space. Although numerous deep clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Nairouz Mrabah , Mohamed Bouguessa , Riadh Ksantini

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success in a variety of applications across many disciplines. Yet, their superior performance comes with the expensive cost of requiring correctly annotated large-scale datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Zhilu Zhang , Mert R. Sabuncu

Auto-Encoder based deep subspace clustering (DSC) is widely used in computer vision, motion segmentation and image processing. However, it suffers from the following three issues in the self-expressive matrix learning process: the first one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Guangyi Zhao , Simin Kou , Xuesong Yin

Multiple classifier system (MCS) has become a successful alternative for improving classification performance. However, studies have shown inconsistent results for different MCSs, and it is often difficult to predict which MCS algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Zhen Gao , Maryam Zand , Jianhua Ruan

Using noisy crowdsourced labels from multiple annotators, a deep learning-based end-to-end (E2E) system aims to learn the label correction mechanism and the neural classifier simultaneously. To this end, many E2E systems concatenate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shahana Ibrahim , Tri Nguyen , Xiao Fu

Real-world classification tasks are frequently required to work in an open-set setting. This is especially challenging for few-shot learning problems due to the small sample size for each known category, which prevents existing open-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jedrzej Kozerawski , Matthew Turk

Benchmarking models is a key factor for the rapid progress in machine learning (ML) research. Thus, further progress depends on improving benchmarking metrics. A standard metric to measure the behavioral alignment between ML models and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-10 Thomas Klein , Sascha Meyen , Wieland Brendel , Felix A. Wichmann , Kristof Meding

Robust loss functions are crucial for training deep neural networks in the presence of label noise, yet existing approaches require extensive, dataset-specific hyperparameter tuning. In this work, we introduce Fractional Classification Loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mert Can Kurucu , Tufan Kumbasar , İbrahim Eksin , Müjde Güzelkaya

Compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have witnessed exceptional improvements in performance in recent years. However, they still fail to provide the same predictive power as CNNs with a large number of parameters. The diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Lusine Abrahamyan , Valentin Ziatchin , Yiming Chen , Nikos Deligiannis

Recent work shows that in-context learning and optimization of in-context examples (ICE) can significantly improve the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) on a wide range of tasks, leading to an apparent consensus that ICE optimization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Pragya Srivastava , Satvik Golechha , Amit Deshpande , Amit Sharma