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most citedEvaluation Metrics for Unsupervised Learning Algorithms

100 citations · 101 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2025

DL101 Neural Network Outputs and Loss Functions

Fernando Berzal

The loss function used to train a neural network is strongly connected to its output layer from a statistical point of view. This technical report analyzes common activation functi…

cs.LG2024

Differential Privacy Regularization: Protecting Training Data Through Loss Function Regularization

Francisco Aguilera-Martínez, Fernando Berzal

Training machine learning models based on neural networks requires large datasets, which may contain sensitive information. The models, however, should not expose private informati…

cs.SI2024

Enhancing Community Detection in Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Local Metrics and Hierarchical Algorithms

Julio-Omar Palacio-Niño, Fernando Berzal

The analysis and detection of communities in network structures are becoming increasingly relevant for understanding social behavior. One of the principal challenges in this field…

q-fin.TR2024★ 1 cited

Beyond Trend Following: Deep Learning for Market Trend Prediction

Fernando Berzal, Alberto Garcia

Trend following and momentum investing are common strategies employed by asset managers. Even though they can be helpful in the proper situations, they are limited in the sense tha…

cs.LG2020

On the use of local structural properties for improving the efficiency of hierarchical community detection methods

Julio-Omar Palacio-Niño, Fernando Berzal

Community detection is a fundamental problem in the analysis of complex networks. It is the analogue of clustering in network data mining. Within community detection methods, hiera…

cs.LG2019★ 100 cited

Evaluation Metrics for Unsupervised Learning Algorithms

Julio-Omar Palacio-Niño, Fernando Berzal

Determining the quality of the results obtained by clustering techniques is a key issue in unsupervised machine learning. Many authors have discussed the desirable features of good…