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2 claims from 2 papers

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.”

2. Computer Science › Machine Learning and Data Classification

   Techniques for mitigating overfitting in machine learning: a comprehensive review, taxonomy, and practical guide

   Sheppert · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · 2026

   A narrative review of about 95 studies organises overfitting-reduction methods into five families and offers a decision framework to help practitioners choose suitable techniques.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper concludes that reducing overfitting works best when choices about data, model size, training and testing are made together.“Overfitting mitigation benefits from coordinated choices in data, model capacity, optimization, and evaluation.”