Corbin Ott
Electrical engineering
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Graduation date: Fall 2018
FURI | Spring 2019
Alpha-Loss
Alpha-loss is a tunable loss function with a parameter alpha that bridges log-loss for (alpha = 1) and 0-1 loss for (alpha = infinity). In machine learning literature, the theoretically optimal loss function is the 0-1 loss function. Unfortunately, 0-1 loss is computationally intractable due to being non-differentiable and discontinuous. Thus, it will be extremely beneficial to continue exploring such a surrogate loss function and how well it can emulate 0-1 loss. Discovering such desirable properties of this loss function will provide engineers and machine learning enthusiast better performance and more variability in neural network designs.
Mentor: Lalitha Sankar
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