MaxSup: Overcoming Representation Collapse in Label Smoothing

NeurIPSOral2025

Authors
Yuxuan Zhou, Heng Li, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Xudong Yan, Yifei Dong, Mario Fritz, Margret Keuper
Affiliation
Baidu
Venue
NeurIPS 2025
Track
Oral

TL;DR

Label Smoothing (LS) is widely adopted to reduce overconfidence in neural network predictions and improve generalization. Despite these benefits, recent studies reveal two critical issues with LS.

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generalization

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