Summary of Learning Differentiable Surrogate Losses For Structured Prediction, by Junjie Yang et al.
Learning Differentiable Surrogate Losses for Structured Prediction
by Junjie Yang, Matthieu Labeau, Florence d’Alché-Buc
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents an innovative framework for structured prediction, which involves learning to predict complex structures rather than simple scalar values. The main challenge lies in the non-Euclidean nature of the output space, which requires relaxing the problem formulation. Traditional surrogate methods rely on kernel-induced losses or loss functions admitting an Implicit Loss Embedding, converting the original problem into a regression task followed by a decoding step. However, designing effective losses for objects with complex structures is challenging and often requires domain-specific expertise. The authors introduce a novel framework where a structured loss function, parameterized by neural networks, is learned directly from output training data through Contrastive Learning prior to addressing the supervised surrogate regression problem. This approach enables the learning of neural networks due to the finite dimension of the surrogate space and allows for predicting new structures of the output data via a decoding strategy based on gradient descent. Numerical experiments demonstrate that this method achieves similar or even better performance than methods based on pre-defined kernels. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making computers learn complex patterns in data. Instead of just predicting numbers, it tries to predict shapes and structures. The problem is that these patterns don’t fit into a simple graph like we’re used to with numbers. The authors developed a new way to solve this problem by using something called Contrastive Learning. This lets the computer learn how to recognize patterns in data without needing special knowledge about what those patterns should look like. They tested their approach and found that it worked just as well or even better than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Embedding » Gradient descent » Loss function » Regression » Supervised
