Cross-entropy loss functions: Theoretical analysis and applications

A Mao, M Mohri, Y Zhong - International conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Cross-entropy is a widely used loss function in applications. It coincides with the logistic loss
applied to the outputs of a neural network, when the softmax is used. But, what guarantees …

Cyber security intrusion detection for agriculture 4.0: Machine learning-based solutions, datasets, and future directions

MA Ferrag, L Shu, O Friha… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review and analyze intrusion detection systems for Agriculture 4.0 cyber
security. Specifically, we present cyber security threats and evaluation metrics used in the …

Designing multi-label classifiers that maximize F measures: State of the art

I Pillai, G Fumera, F Roli - Pattern Recognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Multi-label classification problems usually occur in tasks related to information retrieval, like
text and image annotation, and are receiving increasing attention from the machine learning …

-Consistency Bounds: Characterization and Extensions

A Mao, M Mohri, Y Zhong - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A series of recent publications by Awasthi et al. have introduced the key notion of* $ H $-
consistency bounds* for surrogate loss functions. These are upper bounds on the zero-one …

Multi-Class -Consistency Bounds

P Awasthi, A Mao, M Mohri… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present an extensive study of $ H $-consistency bounds for multi-class classification.
These are upper bounds on the target loss estimation error of a predictor in a hypothesis set …

Post-hoc estimators for learning to defer to an expert

H Narasimhan, W Jitkrittum… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Many practical settings allow a learner to defer predictions to one or more costly experts. For
example, the learning to defer paradigm allows a learner to defer to a human expert, at …

Fairness with overlap** groups; a probabilistic perspective

F Yang, M Cisse, S Koyejo - Advances in neural information …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In algorithmically fair prediction problems, a standard goal is to ensure the equality of
fairness metrics across multiple overlap** groups simultaneously. We reconsider this …

Learning with complex loss functions and constraints

H Narasimhan - International Conference on Artificial …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We develop a general approach for solving constrained classification problems, where the
loss and constraints are defined in terms of a general function of the confusion matrix. We …

Consistent multilabel classification

OO Koyejo, N Natarajan… - Advances in Neural …, 2015 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Multilabel classification is rapidly develo** as an important aspect of modern predictive
modeling, motivating study of its theoretical aspects. To this end, we propose a framework …

Generalized test utilities for long-tail performance in extreme multi-label classification

E Schultheis, M Wydmuch… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Extreme multi-label classification (XMLC) is a task of selecting a small subset of relevant
labels from a very large set of possible labels. As such, it is characterized by long-tail labels …