ICML 2019oral420 citations

SelectiveNet: A Deep Neural Network with an Integrated Reject Option

Yonatan Geifman, Ran El-Yaniv

Abstract

We consider the problem of selective prediction (also known as reject option) in deep neural networks, and introduce SelectiveNet, a deep neural architecture with an integrated reject option. Existing rejection mechanisms are based mostly on a threshold over the prediction confidence of a pre-trained network. In contrast, SelectiveNet is trained to optimize both classification (or regression) and rejection simultaneously, end-to-end. The result is a deep neural network that is optimized over the covered domain. In our experiments, we show a consistently improved risk-coverage trade-off over several well-known classification and regression datasets, thus reaching new state-of-the-art results for deep selective classification.

BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v97-geifman19a,
  title = 	 {{S}elective{N}et: A Deep Neural Network with an Integrated Reject Option},
  author =       {Geifman, Yonatan and El-Yaniv, Ran},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = 	 {2151--2159},
  year = 	 {2019},
  editor = 	 {Chaudhuri, Kamalika and Salakhutdinov, Ruslan},
  volume = 	 {97},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  month = 	 {09--15 Jun},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/geifman19a/geifman19a.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/geifman19a.html},
  abstract = 	 {We consider the problem of selective prediction (also known as reject option) in deep neural networks, and introduce SelectiveNet, a deep neural architecture with an integrated reject option. Existing rejection mechanisms are based mostly on a threshold over the prediction confidence of a pre-trained network. In contrast, SelectiveNet is trained to optimize both classification (or regression) and rejection simultaneously, end-to-end. The result is a deep neural network that is optimized over the covered domain. In our experiments, we show a consistently improved risk-coverage trade-off over several well-known classification and regression datasets, thus reaching new state-of-the-art results for deep selective classification.}
}
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