Hybrid Losses for Hierarchical Embedding Learning

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Autori principali: Tian, Haokun, Lattner, Stefan, McFee, Brian, Saitis, Charalampos
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Tian, Haokun
Lattner, Stefan
McFee, Brian
Saitis, Charalampos
author_facet Tian, Haokun
Lattner, Stefan
McFee, Brian
Saitis, Charalampos
contents In traditional supervised learning, the cross-entropy loss treats all incorrect predictions equally, ignoring the relevance or proximity of wrong labels to the correct answer. By leveraging a tree hierarchy for fine-grained labels, we investigate hybrid losses, such as generalised triplet and cross-entropy losses, to enforce similarity between labels within a multi-task learning framework. We propose metrics to evaluate the embedding space structure and assess the model's ability to generalise to unseen classes, that is, to infer similar classes for data belonging to unseen categories. Our experiments on OrchideaSOL, a four-level hierarchical instrument sound dataset with nearly 200 detailed categories, demonstrate that the proposed hybrid losses outperform previous works in classification, retrieval, embedding space structure, and generalisation.
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spellingShingle Hybrid Losses for Hierarchical Embedding Learning
Tian, Haokun
Lattner, Stefan
McFee, Brian
Saitis, Charalampos
Sound
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
In traditional supervised learning, the cross-entropy loss treats all incorrect predictions equally, ignoring the relevance or proximity of wrong labels to the correct answer. By leveraging a tree hierarchy for fine-grained labels, we investigate hybrid losses, such as generalised triplet and cross-entropy losses, to enforce similarity between labels within a multi-task learning framework. We propose metrics to evaluate the embedding space structure and assess the model's ability to generalise to unseen classes, that is, to infer similar classes for data belonging to unseen categories. Our experiments on OrchideaSOL, a four-level hierarchical instrument sound dataset with nearly 200 detailed categories, demonstrate that the proposed hybrid losses outperform previous works in classification, retrieval, embedding space structure, and generalisation.
title Hybrid Losses for Hierarchical Embedding Learning
topic Sound
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12796