Presentation 2020-03-11
Calibrated Surrogate Maximization of Linear-Fractional Utility in Binary Classification
Han Bao, Masashi Sugiyama,
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Abstract(in English) Complex classification performance metrics such as the F-measure and Jaccard index are often used to handle class imbalance. They are not endowed with M-estimation, which makes optimization hard. We consider a family named linear-fractional metrics and propose methods to directly maximize performance objectives via a calibrated surrogate, which is a tractable yet consistent lower-bound of the original objectives.
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Keyword(in English) binary classificationF-measureJaccard indexsurrogate lossclassification calibrationcalibrated surrogate loss
Paper # IBISML2019-43
Date of Issue 2020-03-03 (IBISML)

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Committee IBISML
Conference Date 2020/3/10(2days)
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Place (in English) Kyoto University
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Topics (in English) Machine learning, etc.
Chair Hisashi Kashima(Kyoto Univ.)
Vice Chair Masashi Sugiyama(Univ. of Tokyo) / Koji Tsuda(Univ. of Tokyo)
Secretary Masashi Sugiyama(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Koji Tsuda(AIST)
Assistant Tomoharu Iwata(NTT) / Shigeyuki Oba(Kyoto Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Infomation-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning
Language ENG
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Title (in English) Calibrated Surrogate Maximization of Linear-Fractional Utility in Binary Classification
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) binary classificationF-measureJaccard indexsurrogate lossclassification calibrationcalibrated surrogate loss
1st Author's Name Han Bao
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo/RIKEN(Univ. of Tokyo/RIKEN)
2nd Author's Name Masashi Sugiyama
2nd Author's Affiliation RIKEN/The University of Tokyo(RIKEN/Univ. of Tokyo)
Date 2020-03-11
Paper # IBISML2019-43
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) IBISML-476
Page pp.pp.71-78(IBISML),
#Pages 8
Date of Issue 2020-03-03 (IBISML)