Glossary term
Glossary term
Evaluation and Benchmarks
A generalization of Log Loss to multi-class classification problems. Cross-entropy quantifies the difference between two probability distributions. See also perplexity.
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A click-prediction team uses cross-entropy loss to train its binary classifier because it aligns with the calibrated probability the bidder needs.
A medical screening team uses cross-entropy with class weights so the rare positive class drives more of the loss during training.
A search ranking team uses cross-entropy on a click target as one of several losses in its multi-objective ranker.
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