Add average calibration losses

[theo-barfoot]

Description

Adds differentiable average calibration error losses for segmentation:

• HardL1ACELoss, using hard confidence bins
• SoftL1ACELoss, using differentiable soft bin assignments

The implementation follows the publication formulation, supports binary and multiclass spatial predictions, matches MONAI calibration-metric aggregation semantics, and handles empty classes consistently with the reference implementation. The losses are exported through monai.losses and documented in the losses reference.

This is part of #8505 and builds on the calibration metrics and handler introduced in #8707.

Validation

• python -m pytest -q tests/losses/test_calibration_loss.py tests/metrics/test_calibration_metric.py tests/handlers/test_handler_calibration_error.py
  • 47 passed, 1 skipped, 32 subtests passed
• ./runtests.sh --black --isort --ruff --pyrefly --copyright
• TorchScript, CPU/CUDA dtype, autocast, MetaTensor, non-contiguous input, compilation, output, and gradient parity checks

A companion 3D segmentation tutorial PR will demonstrate the losses on Medical Segmentation Decathlon Task04 Hippocampus.

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Adds HardL1ACELoss and SoftL1ACELoss with hard and interpolated binning, shared validation and reduction logic, and configurable weighting and activation options. Exports both classes and adds documentation and tests. Updates calibration citations to the 2026 IEEE publication.

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Companion 3D segmentation calibration tutorial: Project-MONAI/tutorials#2072

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[ericspod]

Hi @theo-barfoot thanks for this submission of your work again, I had a few comments to make mostly about the tests. I think it looks good in general without trying to train with the losses myself, we should merge this one then look at your tutorial you've also posted.

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I don't think the failing test is related to this PR at all so don't worry about it unless it recurs.