arXiv Machine Learning

Symmetrization of Loss Functions for Robust Training of Neural Networks in the Presence of Noisy Labels

arXiv:2605. 20347v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Labeling a training set is often expensive and susceptible to errors, making the design of robust loss functions for label noise an important problem.

arXiv AI
Jun 18

Generalized Kullback-Leibler Divergence Loss

arXiv:2503. 08038v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we delve deeper into the Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence loss and mathematically prove that it is equivalent to the Decoupled Kullback-Leibler (DKL) Divergence loss that consists of (1) a weighted Mean Square Error (wMSE) loss and (2) a Cross-Entropy loss incorporating soft labels.

By Jiequan Cui, Beier Zhu, Qingshan Xu, Zhuotao Tian, Xiaojuan Qi, Bei Yu, Hanwang Zhang, Richang Hong
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Robust Learning of a Group DRO Neuron

arXiv:2601. 18115v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the problem of learning a single neuron under standard squared loss in the presence of arbitrary label noise and group-level distributional shifts, for a broad family of covariate distributions.

By Guyang Cao, Shuyao Li, Sushrut Karmalkar, Jelena Diakonikolas