Loss Functions in Machine Learning

Understand the most common loss functions and when to use each one

Dr. Roi Yehoshua
Towards Data Science
11 min readMay 12, 2023

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Loss functions have an important role in machine learning as they guide the learning process of the model and define its objective.

There is a large number of loss functions available and choosing the proper one is crucial for training an accurate model. Different…

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