Loss Function

In machine learning, a Loss Function is a real-valued objective function that, given a model’s prediction and the corresponding ground-truth target, returns a numerical measure of prediction error that is minimized during training.

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Variants

Cost FunctionError Function

Parents

Machine Learning

Children

Adversarial LossBregman DivergenceCalibration LossClassification LossContrastive LossCross-entropy LossDice LossExponential LossFocal LossHinge Loss

Publications

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Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine.

Jerome H. Friedman · The Annals of Statistics · 2001 · 29K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Mathematics +17

Statistical Learning Theory

Yuhai Wu, Vladimir Vapnik · Technometrics · 1999 · 27K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Machine Learning +12

Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators

Kurt Hornik, Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, Halbert White · Neural Networks · 1989 · 21.2K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Mathematics +10

Extreme learning machine: Theory and applications

Guang-Bin Huang, Qinyu Zhu, Chee‐Kheong Siew · Neurocomputing · 2006 · 13.2K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence +9

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric

Richard Zhang, Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros et al. · 2018 · 12.4K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Vision +14

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Masashi Sugiyama
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
40 publications · 2.1K citations
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Peter L. Bartlett
University of California, Berkeley, United States
26 publications · 4.4K citations
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Shai Shalev‐Shwartz
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
19 publications · 4.1K citations
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Ding‐Xuan Zhou
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
26 publications · 1.4K citations
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Gang Niu
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
21 publications · 1.4K citations
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arXiv (Cornell University)
Repository · 1.3K publications · 98.5K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
TPAMI · 90 publications · 10.6K citations
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Neurocomputing
109 publications · 24.9K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
98 publications · 6.8K citations
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Neural Networks
86 publications · 47.3K citations
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