TL;DR: - For categorical outcomes (e.g., classification), the negative log-likelihood corresponds to the cross-entropy loss. - For continuous outcomes (e.g., regression), assuming a Gaussian distribution, the negative log-likelihood corresponds to the Mean Squared Error (MSE) loss.

Read more »

Sources:

  1. Bernard Kolman, Robert C. Busby & Sharon Cutler Ros. (2014). Functions. Discrete Mathematical Structures (6th ed., pp. 206-246). Pearson.
  2. John Hubbard; Barbara Burke Hubbard. (2015). Vector calculus, linear algebra, and differential forms: A unified approach (5th ed., pp. 9-11). Matrix Editions.

In this section we define the notion of a function, a special type of relation.

Read more »
0%