arXiv Machine Learning

Multiclass Linear Perceptrons with Multiplicative Margins

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Similarity-Distance-Magnitude Activations

arXiv:2509. 12760v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Similarity-Distance-Magnitude (SDM) activation function, a more robust and interpretable formulation of the standard softmax activation function, adding Similarity (i.

By Allen Schmaltz
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Classification with Abstention Under Class-Conditional Error Constraints

The paper investigates binary classification with abstention under separate class‑conditional error constraints, aiming to minimize abstention while keeping both error types below specified thresholds. It derives the distribution‑free minimax rate of excess abstention risk, introduces surrogate‑loss formulations for computational feasibility with models like neural networks, and provides finite‑sample guarantees for excess surrogate ambiguity risk. The authors also formulate the learning task as a constrained optimization problem, analyze its computational complexity in the convex setting, and empirically evaluate the approach against a competing method on several datasets.

By Mohammadreza M. Kalan, Yuyang Deng, Sanaz Hamidi
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

Is the Statistical Advantage Worth the Cost? An Empirical Comparison of KANs and MLPs for Structured Data Classification

This study presents an empirical benchmarking comparison between Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) on structured tabular classification tasks. Motivated by the growing interest in KANs as an alternative function-approximating architecture, we evaluate their out-of-the-box performance on twelve publicly available datasets spanning binary, multiclass, multilabel, and ordinal problems.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Imbalanced Classification under Capacity Constraints

arXiv:2605. 03289v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Detecting observations from a minority class under severe class imbalance is a central challenge in applications such as fraud detection, medical screening, and industrial quality control.

By Daniel Fraiman, Ricardo Fraiman
arXiv AI
Jul 16

Is the Statistical Advantage Worth the Cost? An Empirical Comparison of KANs and MLPs for Structured Data Classification

arXiv:2607. 13413v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study presents an empirical benchmarking comparison between Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) on structured tabular classification tasks.

By Matthew Steven P. Toledo, Justine Raphael H. Jacinto, Vivekjeet Singh Chambal, Rodolfo C. Camaclang III, Jamlech Iram N. Gojo Cruz, Reginald Neil C. Recario
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13

Linear-Core Surrogates: Smooth Loss Functions with Linear Rates for Classification and Structured Prediction

arXiv:2604. 27742v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A fundamental dichotomy in the theory of classification sets smoothness against statistical efficiency: smooth surrogate losses such as the logistic loss enable fast $O(1/T)$ optimization but yield slow square-root $H$-consistency bounds, while piecewise-linear losses like the Hinge loss achieve optimal linear $H$-consistency rates but are non-differentiable.

By Mehryar Mohri, Yutao Zhong