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Loss Functions Catalog
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What is the role of a loss function in machine learning?
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It controls how quickly the model trains by setting the speed of parameter updates at each step
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It maps a prediction and a true label to a non-negative number measuring the prediction error
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It quantifies how much memory the model consumes during training and inference on the given hardware
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It performs feature selection by identifying which input variables are most relevant to the task
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