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Focal Loss

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FocalLoss class

keras_cv.losses.FocalLoss(
    alpha=0.25, gamma=2, from_logits=False, label_smoothing=0, **kwargs
)

Implements Focal loss

Focal loss is a modified cross-entropy designed to perform better with class imbalance. For this reason, it's commonly used with object detectors.

Arguments

  • alpha: a float value between 0 and 1 representing a weighting factor used to deal with class imbalance. Positive classes and negative classes have alpha and (1 - alpha) as their weighting factors respectively. Defaults to 0.25.
  • gamma: a positive float value representing the tunable focusing parameter, defaults to 2.
  • from_logits: Whether y_pred is expected to be a logits tensor. By default, y_pred is assumed to encode a probability distribution. Default to False.
  • label_smoothing: Float in [0, 1]. If higher than 0 then smooth the labels by squeezing them towards 0.5, i.e., using 1. - 0.5 * label_smoothing for the target class and 0.5 * label_smoothing for the non-target class.

References

Standalone usage:

y_true = np.random.uniform(size=[10], low=0, high=4)
y_pred = np.random.uniform(size=[10], low=0, high=4)
loss = FocalLoss()
loss(y_true, y_pred)

Usage with the compile() API:

model.compile(optimizer='adam', loss=keras_cv.losses.FocalLoss())
Focal Loss
FocalLoss class