Summary of Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-shot Region Through Distribution Distance Constraint, by Guangkun Nie et al.
Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-Shot Region through Distribution Distance Constraint
by Guangkun Nie, Gongzheng Tang, Shenda Hong
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed novel loss function, called Dist Loss, aims to tackle the challenge of imbalanced data distributions in both classification and regression tasks. By minimizing the distribution distance between predicted outputs and target labels, Dist Loss enables deep learning models to focus on areas with few-shot data, overcoming the issue of overfitting in high-density regions. This approach is particularly relevant in healthcare, where accurate predictions are crucial for patient outcomes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A group of researchers created a new way to make deep learning models work better when dealing with imbalanced data. Imbalanced data means that some groups have much more information than others, which can cause the model to get stuck on one type of data and ignore others. The team developed a “Dist Loss” function that helps the model learn from all types of data, not just the ones it has lots of information about. They tested this new approach using three different datasets and found that it worked really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Deep learning » Few shot » Loss function » Overfitting » Regression
