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I am working on a relation extraction and classification problem. The data is in the form of text files. The data is imbalanced. I want to use focal loss function to address class imbalance problem in the data. My question is: Can focal loss be utilized for extraction and classification task to increase the accuracy? Focal loss has been applied on object detection task and for image classification task. The link is below. I want to use this on text classification task.
https://shaoanlu.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/applying-focal-loss-on-cats-vs-dogs-classification-task/
http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2017/papers/Lin_Focal_Loss_for_ICCV_2017_paper.pdf
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I am working on a relation extraction and classification problem. The data is in the form of text files. The data is imbalanced. I want to use focal loss function to address class imbalance problem in the data. My question is: Can focal loss be utilized for extraction and classification task to increase the accuracy? Focal loss has been applied on object detection task and for image classification task. The link is below. I want to use this on text classification task.
https://shaoanlu.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/applying-focal-loss-on-cats-vs-dogs-classification-task/
http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2017/papers/Lin_Focal_Loss_for_ICCV_2017_paper.pdf
multiclass-classification supervised-learning loss-function class-imbalance
asked Jul 20 '18 at 20:19
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I am working on a relation extraction and classification problem. The data is in the form of text files. The data is imbalanced. I want to use focal loss function to address class imbalance problem in the data. My question is: Can focal loss be utilized for extraction and classification task to increase the accuracy? Focal loss has been applied on object detection task and for image classification task. The link is below. I want to use this on text classification task.
https://shaoanlu.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/applying-focal-loss-on-cats-vs-dogs-classification-task/
http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2017/papers/Lin_Focal_Loss_for_ICCV_2017_paper.pdf
multiclass-classification supervised-learning loss-function class-imbalance
asked Jul 20 '18 at 20:19
M. AhmadM. Ahmad
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I am working on a relation extraction and classification problem. The data is in the form of text files. The data is imbalanced. I want to use focal loss function to address class imbalance problem in the data. My question is: Can focal loss be utilized for extraction and classification task to increase the accuracy? Focal loss has been applied on object detection task and for image classification task. The link is below. I want to use this on text classification task.
https://shaoanlu.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/applying-focal-loss-on-cats-vs-dogs-classification-task/
http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2017/papers/Lin_Focal_Loss_for_ICCV_2017_paper.pdf
multiclass-classification supervised-learning loss-function class-imbalance
multiclass-classification supervised-learning loss-function class-imbalance
asked Jul 20 '18 at 20:19
M. AhmadM. Ahmad
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asked Jul 20 '18 at 20:19
M. AhmadM. Ahmad
63
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From Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection paper, focal loss is defined as:
$$FL(p_t) = −(1 − p_t)^γ log(p_t)$$
It is a generalized formation of a loss function that can be directly implemented for any classification problem, including text classification.
Focal loss function is designed for problems with 1:1000 training imbalance. Does your data actually have that much imbalance? If not, you can use much simpler methods (i.e., resampling).
answered Jul 21 '18 at 21:01
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From Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection paper, focal loss is defined as:
$$FL(p_t) = −(1 − p_t)^γ log(p_t)$$
It is a generalized formation of a loss function that can be directly implemented for any classification problem, including text classification.
Focal loss function is designed for problems with 1:1000 training imbalance. Does your data actually have that much imbalance? If not, you can use much simpler methods (i.e., resampling).
answered Jul 21 '18 at 21:01
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From Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection paper, focal loss is defined as:
$$FL(p_t) = −(1 − p_t)^γ log(p_t)$$
It is a generalized formation of a loss function that can be directly implemented for any classification problem, including text classification.
Focal loss function is designed for problems with 1:1000 training imbalance. Does your data actually have that much imbalance? If not, you can use much simpler methods (i.e., resampling).
answered Jul 21 '18 at 21:01
Brian SpieringBrian Spiering
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From Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection paper, focal loss is defined as:
$$FL(p_t) = −(1 − p_t)^γ log(p_t)$$
It is a generalized formation of a loss function that can be directly implemented for any classification problem, including text classification.
Focal loss function is designed for problems with 1:1000 training imbalance. Does your data actually have that much imbalance? If not, you can use much simpler methods (i.e., resampling).
answered Jul 21 '18 at 21:01
Brian SpieringBrian Spiering
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From Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection paper, focal loss is defined as:
$$FL(p_t) = −(1 − p_t)^γ log(p_t)$$
It is a generalized formation of a loss function that can be directly implemented for any classification problem, including text classification.
Focal loss function is designed for problems with 1:1000 training imbalance. Does your data actually have that much imbalance? If not, you can use much simpler methods (i.e., resampling).
answered Jul 21 '18 at 21:01
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