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.
By Alexandre Lemire Paquin, Brahim Chaib-Draa, Philippe Gigu\`ere
This paper proposes a novel loss concept for supervised classification tasks. Rather than enforcing a direct mapping from each input sample to a single assigned label, we define an optimization objective over all classifier outputs as a bimodal Gaussian distribution.
arXiv:2508. 09697v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Noisy labels are inevitable in real-world scenarios.
By Xinlei Zhang, Fan Liu, Chuanyi Zhang, Fan Cheng, Qian Li, Yuhui Zheng
arXiv:2508. 09697v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Noisy labels are inevitable in real-world multimedia applications.
By Xinlei Zhang, Fan Liu, Chuanyi Zhang, Xiaoying Ji, Wenhui Wang, Wei Zhou, Yuhui Zheng
arXiv:2607. 13631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Hessian matrix is an important quantity of interest when it comes to studying the loss landscape and optimization dynamics in deep learning, as well as designing measures of generalization, second-order learning algorithms, etc.
By Jasraj Singh, Enea Monzio Compagnoni, Antonio Orvieto
arXiv:2608. 08489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural network classifiers trained by cross-entropy minimization are highly sensitive to label noise and adversarial contamination.
By Subhabrata Majumdar, Anand Deo, Partha Pratim Saha, Abhik Ghosh
The Hessian matrix is an important quantity of interest when it comes to studying the loss landscape and optimization dynamics in deep learning, as well as designing measures of generalization, second-order learning algorithms, etc. Prior works have focused on empirical results or pursued a theoretical treatment under overly simplified settings.
arXiv:2606. 16050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust deep learning under heavy-tailed and impulsive noise remains challenging because conventional losses such as mean squared error (MSE) exhibit unbounded sensitivity to outliers.
By Mainak Kundu, Ria Kanjilal, Ismail Uysal
arXiv:2501. 10538v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The practical success of deep learning has led to the discovery of several surprising phenomena.
By Ichiro Hashimoto, Stanislav Volgushev, Piotr Zwiernik
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
The paper investigates minimal‑norm interpolation and λ2‑regularized logistic‑loss minimization for binary classification using univariate two‑layer ReLU networks. It provides exact geometric characterizations of optimal classifiers, showing that unpenalized hidden‑layer biases yield continuous piecewise‑affine functions that tightly follow label switches, while penalized biases produce a unique, sparsest classifier with a single kink per same‑label segment. Adding a free affine skip connection does not change these function‑space solutions but guarantees that every KKT point becomes globally optimal, eliminating suboptimal KKT points that can arise without the skip connection.
By Karolina Drabik, Ben Lewis, Antoni Puch, Etienne Boursier, Piotr Hofman, Matthias Englert, Ranko Lazi\'c
arXiv:2608. 14288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose multiple new convex losses for SVM and Neural Networks, applied to binary classification tasks.
By Filippo Portera