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"I don't know!": Teaching neural networks to abstain with the HALO-Loss. [R]

Via r/MachineLearning
Tuesday, Apr 14, 2026 · 5:45AM
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Current neural networks have a fundamental geometry problem: If you feed them garbage data, they won't admit that they have no clue. They will confidently hallucinate. This happens because the standard Cross-Entropy loss requires models to push their features "infinitely" far away from the origin to

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