On the Design of Loss Functions for Classification: theory, robustness to outliers, and SavageBoost

Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi, Nuno Vasconcelos. On the Design of Loss Functions for Classification: theory, robustness to outliers, and SavageBoost. In Daphne Koller, Dale Schuurmans, Yoshua Bengio, Léon Bottou, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, December 8-11, 2008. pages 1049-1056, MIT Press, 2008. [doi]

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