EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Spiridon I. Penev
dblp:60/390
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0000-0002-3669-0010ORCID · verified
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 50% Learning theory · 50% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Learning theory › loss function
proper scoring rules |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | LegendreTron: Uprising Proper Multiclass Loss Learning · ICML 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
monotonicity of gradients · 0.7legendre transformation · 0.7convex functions · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | LegendreTron: Uprising Proper Multiclass Loss LearningabstractLoss functions serve as the foundation of supervised learning and are often chosen prior to model development. To avoid potentially ad hoc choices of losses, statistical decision theory describes a desirable property for losses known as *properness*, which asserts that Bayes' rule is optimal. Recent works have sought to *learn losses* and models jointly. Existing methods do this by fitting an inverse canonical link function which monotonically maps $\mathbb{R}$ to $[0,1]$ to estimate probabilities for binary problems. In this paper, we extend monotonicity to maps between $\mathbb{R}^{C-1}$ and the projected probability simplex $\tilde{\Delta}^{C-1}$ by using monotonicity of gradients of convex functions. We present LegendreTron as a novel and practical method that jointly learns *proper canonical losses* and probabilities for multiclass problems. Tested on a benchmark of domains with up to 1,000 classes, our experimental results show that our method consistently outperforms the natural multiclass baseline under a $t$-test at 99% significance on all datasets with greater than $10$ classes. Kevin H. Lam, Christian J. Walder, Spiridon I. Penev, Richard Nock |
ICML | 3 |