3 papers
cs.LG2026
Tailoring Strictly Proper Scoring Rules for Downstream Tasks: An Application to Causal Inference
Roman Plaud, Alexandre Perez-Lebel, Antoine Saillenfest +4
Probabilistic models are typically trained using task-agnostic objectives like log-loss, which can lead to significant errors in downstream estimation. This disconnect is especiall…
cs.LG2025
To Each Metric Its Decoding: Post-Hoc Optimal Decision Rules of Probabilistic Hierarchical Classifiers
Roman Plaud, Alexandre Perez-Lebel, Matthieu Labeau +2
Hierarchical classification offers an approach to incorporate the concept of mistake severity by leveraging a structured, labeled hierarchy. However, decoding in such settings freq…
cs.CL2024
Revisiting Hierarchical Text Classification: Inference and Metrics
Roman Plaud, Matthieu Labeau, Antoine Saillenfest +1
Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is the task of assigning labels to a text within a structured space organized as a hierarchy. Recent works treat HTC as a conventional multil…