Contrastive Loss Functions
Master contrastive loss functions including InfoNCE, NT-Xent, and Triplet Loss for representation learning and self-supervised training.
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Explore machine learning concepts related to losses. Clear explanations and practical insights.
Master contrastive loss functions including InfoNCE, NT-Xent, and Triplet Loss for representation learning and self-supervised training.
Master focal loss, the game-changing loss function that addresses extreme class imbalance by down-weighting easy examples and focusing on hard negatives.
Understand Kullback-Leibler divergence, the fundamental measure of difference between probability distributions used in VAEs, information theory, and model compression.
Understand Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE), the fundamental loss functions for regression tasks with different sensitivity to outliers.