Optimizing for ROC Curves on Class-Imbalanced Data by Training over a Family of Loss Functions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05400v2
• Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 20:03:25 GMT
• Title: Optimizing for ROC Curves on Class-Imbalanced Data by Training over a Family of Loss Functions
• Authors: Kelsey Lieberman, Shuai Yuan, Swarna Kamlam Ravindran, Carlo Tomasi,
• Abstract summary: Training reliable classifiers under severe class imbalance is a challenging problem in computer vision. Recent work has proposed techniques that mitigate the effects of training under imbalance by modifying the loss functions or optimization methods. We propose training over a family of loss functions, instead of a single loss function.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Although binary classification is a well-studied problem in computer vision, training reliable classifiers under severe class imbalance remains a challenging problem. Recent work has proposed techniques that mitigate the effects of training under imbalance by modifying the loss functions or optimization methods. While this work has led to significant improvements in the overall accuracy in the multi-class case, we observe that slight changes in hyperparameter values of these methods can result in highly variable performance in terms of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves on binary problems with severe imbalance. To reduce the sensitivity to hyperparameter choices and train more general models, we propose training over a family of loss functions, instead of a single loss function. We develop a method for applying Loss Conditional Training (LCT) to an imbalanced classification problem. Extensive experiment results, on both CIFAR and Kaggle competition datasets, show that our method improves model performance and is more robust to hyperparameter choices. Code is available at https://github.com/klieberman/roc_lct.

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