Loss Functions in Deep Learning

A Guide on the Concept of Loss Functions in Deep Learning — What they are, Why we need them…

Artem Oppermann
MLearning.ai
Published in
10 min readMar 7, 2021

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This in-depth article addresses the questions of why we need loss functions in deep learning and which loss functions should be used for which tasks.

In Short: Loss functions in deep learning are used to measure how well a neural

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Artem Oppermann
MLearning.ai

Deep Learning & AI Software Developer | MSc. Physics | https://artem-oppermann.medium.com/subscribe