Real-world datasets are often highly class-imbalanced, which can adversely impact the performance of deep learning models. The majority of research on training neural networks under class imbalance has focused on specialized loss functions and sampling techniques. Notably, we demonstrate that simply tuning existing components of standard deep learning pipelines, such as the batch size, data augmentation, architecture size, pre-training, optimizer, and label smoothing, can achieve state-of-the-art performance without any specialized loss functions or samplers. We also provide key prescriptions and considerations for training under class imbalance, and an understanding of why imbalance methods succeed or fail.

Real-world datasets are often highly class-imbalanced, which can adversely impact the performance of deep learning models. The majority of research on training neural networks under class imbalance has focused on specialized loss functions and sampling techniques. Notably, we demonstrate that simply tuning existing components of standard deep learning pipelines, such as the batch size, data augmentation, architecture size, pre-training, optimizer, and label smoothing, can achieve state-of-the-art performance without any specialized loss functions or samplers. We also provide key prescriptions and considerations for training under class imbalance, and an understanding of why imbalance methods succeed or fail.

Real-world datasets are often highly class-imbalanced, which can adversely impact the performance of deep learning models. The majority of research on training neural networks under class imbalance has focused on specialized loss functions and sampling techniques. Notably, we demonstrate that simply tuning existing components of standard deep learning pipelines, such as the batch size, data augmentation, architecture size, pre-training, optimizer, and label smoothing, can achieve state-of-the-art performance without any specialized loss functions or samplers. We also provide key prescriptions and considerations for training under class imbalance, and an understanding of why imbalance methods succeed or fail.

Loss functions play a very important role in the training of modern Deep learning architecture, choosing the right loss function is the key to successful model building. A loss function is a mathematical equation that a deep learning architecture tries to minimize or optimize. Deep learning is an iterative process, in every step, it calculates some metric that tells the system how close its prediction is to the original label. Based on the calculated loss value, the network optimizes its parameters. There are a lot of loss functions and among those, the most popular ones are Mean square error, categorical cross-entropy, Dice loss, etc. Loss functions can be divided into two major categories: specialized loss functions and generalized loss functions.

Readers of this blog already know what loss functions are in AI but for people starting into the field let me define it again. The loss function is a mathematical equation that all the deep learning algorithm tries to minimize or optimize. As we all know that Deep learning takes an iterative process to learn things, in every step, it calculates some metric that tells it how close it is to the original label and based upon that it optimizes its parameters. So the metrics that we minimize or optimize are called loss functions. There are a lot of famous loss functions like Mean square error, categorical cross-entropy, Dice loss, and many more.