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  1. Computer Science › Machine Learning and Data Classification

    Generalized Cross Entropy Loss for Training Deep Neural Networks with Noisy Labels

    Zhang and Sabuncu · PubMed · 2018

    The paper presents a family of noise-robust loss functions that generalise MAE and categorical cross entropy, for training deep neural networks when training labels contain errors.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper reports that mean absolute error (MAE), a loss proposed as robust to noisy labels, can perform poorly with deep neural networks on challenging datasets.“However, as we show in this paper, MAE can perform poorly with DNNs and challenging datasets.”

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