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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Calibrating Deep Neural Networks using Focal Loss · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2002.09437/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2002.09437/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Calibrating Deep Neural Networks using Focal Loss — mentioned by Isinlor</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25547847</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2002.09437:25547847</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:01:55 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an active research field. E.g. from October 2020: Calibrating Deep Neural Networks using Focal Loss: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09437 &amp;gt; Miscalibration - a mismatch between a model&amp;#x27;s confidence and its correctness - of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) makes their predictions hard to rely on. Ideally, we want networks to be accurate, calibrated and confident. We show that, as opposed to the standard cross-entropy loss, focal loss [Lin et. al., 2017] allows us to learn models that are already very well calibrated. When combined with temperature scaling, whilst preserving accuracy, it yields…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2002.09437/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item></channel></rss>
