A Case for Soft Loss Functions

Alexandra Uma; Tommaso Fornaciari; Dirk Hovy; Silviu Paun; Barbara Plank; Massimo Poesio

A Case for Soft Loss Functions

Alexandra Uma, Tommaso Fornaciari, Dirk Hovy, Silviu Paun, Barbara Plank, Massimo Poesio

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Recently, Peterson et al. provided evidence of the benefits of using probabilistic soft labels generated from crowd annotations for training a computer vision model, showing that us- ing such labels maximizes performance of the models over unseen data. In this paper, we generalize these results by showing that training with soft labels is an effective method for using crowd annotations in several other AI tasks besides the one studied by Peterson et al., and also when their performance is compared with that of state-of-the-art methods for learning from crowdsourced data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the eighth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
Publisher	AAAI Press
Publication date	2020
Publication status	Published - 2020

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