IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Beyond NLL: Pathwise Cross-Entropy Loss for Discriminative and Calibrated Event-Time Survival Prediction.
Jingmin Long, Jia Li, Jesper Kers, Fons J Verbeek
Published: 202610.1109/JBHI.2026.3650827
Abstract
Deep survival models are increasingly used for time-to-event prediction under censoring, yet training objectives remain a bottleneck. The widely used discrete-time negative log-likelihood (NLL) supervises hazards and can suffer from temporal informat…
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