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48 results for AUC decomposition

The paper breaks down AUC into cluster-level components for better model diagnostics.

problem Global AUC masks weaknesses in specific subpopulations, leading to financial or operational risks.
method Formal decomposition of AUC into intra- and inter-cluster components, comparing with other performance metrics.
result Allows practitioners to evaluate and diagnose model performance within and across clusters.

ECLIPSE detects AI hallucinations in finance with high accuracy.

problem Hallucinations in AI-generated answers limit safe deployment in finance.
method Combines entropy estimation and perplexity decomposition to measure model evidence use.
result ECLIPSE achieves ROC AUC of 0.89 and average precision of 0.90 on financial QA dataset.

Unified framework for binary responses using AUC loss and low-rank constraint.

problem Statistical inefficiency and shared structure in fitting multiple binary responses.
method Pairwise AUC loss aggregation with low-rank constraint, scalable projected gradient descent.
result Unified framework outperforms likelihood-based approaches in challenging settings.

Maximizing the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is a standard approach to imbalanced classification. So far, various supervised AUC optimization methods have been developed and they are also extended to semi-supervised scenarios to cope with small sample problems. However, existing semi-supe…

2017-05-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Modified AUC improves CNN training by considering model confidence.

problem Improving binary classifier performance metrics.
method Proposes a modified AUC metric that incorporates model confidence into BCE loss for CNN training.
result Demonstrates improved performance on three datasets: MNIST, prostate MRI, and brain MRI.

New DAM method improves AUC scores in medical image classification.

problem Maximizing AUC in large-scale medical image classification.
method Proposes AUC margin loss for robust optimization, conducts extensive empirical studies.
result Improves performance on four medical image classification tasks, achieving 1st place on Stanford CheXpert.

FairPOT balances fairness and AUC performance by selectively transforming risk scores.

problem Balancing fairness and AUC performance in high-stakes domains.
method FairPOT uses proportional optimal transport to selectively transform risk scores.
result FairPOT consistently improves fairness with minimal AUC degradation or even positive gains.

New models improve classification model performance, especially robust to small training sets.

problem Improving classification model performance, especially robust to small training sets.
method Distributionally robust AUC maximization models using Kantorovich metric and hinge loss function.
result The proposed DR-AUC models outperform standard models in general and worst-case out-of-sample performance.

AUC (Area under the ROC curve) is an important performance measure for applications where the data is highly imbalanced. Learning to maximize AUC performance is thus an important research problem. Using a max-margin based surrogate loss function, AUC optimization problem can be approximated as a pairwise rankSVM learni…

2016-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

AUC (area under ROC curve) is an important evaluation criterion, which has been popularly used in many learning tasks such as class-imbalance learning, cost-sensitive learning, learning to rank, etc. Many learning approaches try to optimize AUC, while owing to the non-convexity and discontinuousness of AUC, almost all …

2012-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

This report examines the Pinned AUC metric introduced and highlights some of its limitations. Pinned AUC provides a threshold-agnostic measure of unintended bias in a classification model, inspired by the ROC-AUC metric. However, as we highlight in this report, there are ways that the metric can obscure different kinds…

2019-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Adequate evaluation of an information retrieval system to estimate future performance is a crucial task. Area under the ROC curve (AUC) is widely used to evaluate the generalization of a retrieval system. However, the objective function optimized in many retrieval systems is the error rate and not the AUC value. This p…

2015-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

This work optimizes model performance while ensuring fairness through AUC constraints.

problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models, especially for protected populations.
method Formulates fairness-aware machine learning model training as AUC optimization subject to fairness constraints, solves using stochastic first-order methods.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of the approach on real-world data under different fairness metrics.

Stochastic AUC maximization has garnered an increasing interest due to better fit to imbalanced data classification. However, existing works are limited to stochastic AUC maximization with a linear predictive model, which restricts its predictive power when dealing with extremely complex data. In this paper, we conside…

2019-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines the generalization of Macro-AUC in multi-label learning, identifying label imbalance as a critical factor.

problem Theoretical understanding of Macro-AUC in multi-label learning is lacking.
method Characterization of generalization properties of learning algorithms based on surrogate losses w.r.t. Macro-AUC, identification of label imbalance as a critical factor.
result The widely-used univariate loss-based algorithm is more sensitive to label imbalance than pairwise and reweighted loss-based ones, implying worse performance.

Area under ROC (AUC) is an important metric for binary classification and bipartite ranking problems. However, it is difficult to directly optimizing AUC as a learning objective, so most existing algorithms are based on optimizing a surrogate loss to AUC. One significant drawback of these surrogate losses is that they …

2018-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) has shown excellent performance in a variety of machine learning tasks. This manuscript presents Deep Convolutional Neural Fields (DeepCNF), a combination of DCNN with Conditional Random Field (CRF), for sequence labeling with highly imbalanced label distribution. The widely-us…

2015-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes partial AUC across various FPRs for machine learning models.

problem Lack of scalable algorithms for optimizing partial AUC in a range of FPRs.
method Formulated as a non-smooth DC program, developed an efficient approximated gradient descent method using Moreau envelope smoothing.
result Achieved a complexity of O(1/ε6)O(1/ε^6) for finding nearly εε-critical solutions.

In many applications, monitoring area under the ROC curve (AUC) in a sliding window over a data stream is a natural way of detecting changes in the system. The drawback is that computing AUC in a sliding window is expensive, especially if the window size is large and the data flow is significant. In this paper we propo…

2019-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm optimizes AUC in binary classification and changepoint detection.

problem Difficult to optimize AUC in binary classification and changepoint detection.
method Proposes efficient path-following algorithms for choosing optimal learning rate.
result Proposed line search algorithm computes complete AUM/AUC representation.

Efficiently maximizes AUC with deep nets, reducing communication rounds.

problem Maximizing AUC with deep neural networks in a distributed setting.
method Communication-efficient distributed optimization algorithm for non-convex concave AUC maximization.
result Achieves linear speedup with significantly fewer communication rounds.

Paper estimates optimal ROC curve arc length and AUC, improving classification performance.

problem Estimating optimal ROC curve arc length and AUC in imbalanced binary classification.
method Expresses arc length and AUC as variational objectives, estimating using positive and negative samples.
result Proposed classification procedure maximizes an approximate lower bound of maximal AUC.

Improves ROC/AUC for multi-class classification.

problem Lack of sensible plots, sensitivity to imbalanced data, inability to specify mis-classification cost, and lack of evaluation uncertainty quantification.
method Factorizes multi-class ROC into a one-dimensional vector representation for visualization and summary.
result Provides a binary AUC-equivalent summary and mis-classification weights specification.

This paper introduces our solution to the 2018 Duolingo Shared Task on Second Language Acquisition Modeling (SLAM). We used deep factorization machines, a wide and deep learning model of pairwise relationships between users, items, skills, and other entities considered. Our solution (AUC 0.815) hopefully managed to bea…

2018-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

AUC-spec optimizes graph-based SSL for complex label distributions.

problem Training accurate models with scarce labeled data and abundant unlabeled data.
method Computes a low-dimensional representation that maximizes class separation via AUC optimization.
result AUC-spec achieves competitive results on synthetic and real-world datasets.

Area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) is an important metric for a wide range of signal processing and machine learning problems, and scalable methods for optimizing AUC have recently been proposed. However, handling very large datasets remains an open challenge for this problem. This paper prop…

2018-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Stochastic Gradient Descent has been widely studied with classification accuracy as a performance measure. However, these stochastic algorithms cannot be directly used when non-decomposable pairwise performance measures are used such as Area under the ROC curve (AUC) which is a common performance metric when the classe…

2019-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we consider the problem of maximizing the Area under the ROC curve (AUC) which is a widely used performance metric in imbalanced classification and anomaly detection. Due to the pairwise nonlinearity of the objective function, classical SGD algorithms do not apply to the task of AUC maximization. We propo…

2019-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

New optimization method improves AUC for binary classification and changepoint detection.

problem Non-convex AUC and sub-optimal points in ROC curves.
method AUM (Area Under Min(FP, FN)) surrogate loss function based on sorting and summing ROC curve points.
result AUM minimization learning algorithm improves AUC and speeds up compared to previous methods.

Paper tackles multi-block min-max optimization with applications in deep AUC maximization.

problem Multi-block min-max bilevel optimization with non-convex strongly-concave upper level and strongly convex lower level.
method Single-loop randomized stochastic algorithm for constant number of blocks per iteration.
result Sample complexity of O(1/ε^4) for finding ε-stationary point, matching optimal complexity.

Deep neural networks predict earthquake locations with high accuracy.

problem Predicting the location of earthquakes with high precision.
method Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNN) model that accounts for spatio-temporal dependencies.
result Neural networks model outperforms baseline models in predicting earthquakes with ROC AUC 0.975 and PR AUC 0.0890.