Log loss function math explained

The derivation and math of the log loss function used in logistic regression

Harshith
Towards Data Science
5 min readJan 6, 2020

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Have you ever worked on a classification problem in Machine Learning? If yes, then you might have come across cross-entropy or log loss function in Logistic regression.

What’s that function used for? What’s the significance of the function in classification problems?

Let’s find out in detail by looking at the math behind the function.

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SDE II @ Amazon, and Machine Learning enthusiast in a quest to reach the global maxima.