balance_index: (int) balance class index, should be specific when alpha is float

[DeeDiveT]

Hi @Hsuxu ,

I'm a little bit confused about balance_index.

What happens to the loss when alpha is of type float?

Millions of thanks in advance.

[Hsuxu]

It only apply alpha weight on target class index.

[DeeDiveT]

It seems that $balance_index will not be used when the type of $$\alpha$$ is integer.

So, what does the balance_index actually do ?

thx.

[ksarma]

@DeeDive Alpha should be between 0 and 1 and reflects the relative weight of the classes. For example, if you have binary classification and you want to overweight the positive (index 1) class, I believe you can set alpha=0.7 and balance_index to 1. Then the alpha matrix will have all 0.3 (i.e. 1-alpha) for column 0, and 0.7 for column 1. This is used then for weighting the loss later in the computation

[DeeDiveT]

Thanks for your reply. Can I set alpha to a vector of integer? For instance, [1,7].------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------ 发件人: "Karthik Sarma"<[email protected]> 发送时间: 2019年8月18日(星期天) 凌晨0:03 收件人: "Hsuxu/Loss_ToolBox-PyTorch"<[email protected]>; 抄送: "DeeDive"<[email protected]>;"Mention"<[email protected]>; 主题: Re: [Hsuxu/Loss_ToolBox-PyTorch] balance_index: (int) balance classindex, should be specific when alpha is float (#9) @DeeDive Alpha should be between 0 and 1 and reflects the relative weight of the classes. For example, if you have binary classification and you want to overweight the positive (index 1) class, I believe you can set alpha=0.7 and balance_index to 1. Then the alpha matrix will have all 0.3 (i.e. 1-alpha) for column 0, and 0.7 for column 1. This is used then for weighting the loss later in the computation &mdash; You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.