arXiv Machine Learning

Towards Understanding The Calibration Benefits of Sharpness-Aware Minimization

arXiv:2505. 23866v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep neural networks have been increasingly used in safety-critical applications such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

LiST: Lipschitz Scaling Training for Robust and Calibrated Neural Networks

arXiv:2607. 07745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While accuracy, robustness, and calibration are all essential for reliable neural networks, they are often studied separately; developing models that satisfy all three simultaneously remains a central challenge.

By Arthur Chiron (IRIT, EPE UT), Franck Mamalet (IRIT, DTIPG - SNCF, UT3), Thomas Massena (IRIT, DTIPG - SNCF, UT3), Thomas Deltort (IRIT), Mathieu Serrurier (IRIT, UT2J)
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Sample Margin-Aware Recalibration of Temperature Scaling

The paper introduces SMART, a lightweight recalibration technique that adjusts logits based on the margin between the top two logits, called the logit gap. It uses a soft-binned Expected Calibration Error objective to balance bias and variance, enabling stable updates even with limited calibration data. Experiments across various datasets and architectures show SMART achieves state‑of‑the‑art calibration with fewer parameters than existing methods.

By Haolan Guo, Linwei Tao, Haoyang Luo, Minjing Dong, Chang Xu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

Sparsity-Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization

The paper introduces Sparsity-Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SA‑SAM), a method that adjusts the perturbation radius in sharpness-aware training to remain consistent as model sparsity increases. It also evaluates a Magnitude‑Weighted Hessian (MWH) importance metric derived from second‑order analysis. Experiments on CIFAR‑10‑C, CIFAR‑100‑C, and ImageNet‑100‑C show that SA‑SAM improves corruption robustness at 80–90% sparsity while maintaining clean accuracy, and the study reports inference throughput at deployment‑relevant sparsity levels.

By Shiryu Ueno, Yoshikazu Hayashi, Kunihito Kato
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

Rethinking Post-Hoc Calibration in Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2607. 01902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable confidence estimates are essential in semantic segmentation, especially in safety-critical settings where overconfident errors can mislead downstream decisions.

By Tristan Kirscher (ICube), Kim-Celine Kahl (DKFZ), Balint Kovacs (DKFZ), Maximilian R. Rokuss (DKFZ), Klaus Maier-Hein (DKFZ), Xavier Coubez (ICube), Philippe Meyer (ICube), Sylvain Faisan (ICube)