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loss

loss

10 5.7
A number that shows how wrong a computer model's guesses are
  • noun
  • /lɔs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : función de pérdida
  • To improve predictions, developers often aim to minimize the loss calculated during training.

These activation functions put together are tasked with optimizing a loss function for aggression.

Examples

  • In machine learning, monitoring the loss function helps assess how well the model is performing.

  • So as you train, your loss actually goes down.

  • And let me show you some data on low loss propagation.

  • K2 quantifies the rate of loss of information during the evolution of a dynamic system over time.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The number of subjects was reduced by loss of data from the pressure-measuring insole due to creasing.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Loss of accuracy may be detected as either 3) a denormalization loss or 4) an inexact result.

    Academic text (1999)
  • As the model trained, the loss steadily decreased, indicating a better fit for the data.

Idioms

28 4.2

Not knowing what to do or say

7 4.3

Selling something for less than you paid for it

Not able to think of any ideas

Compounds

loss of life
  • Literature
45 3.5

Deaths of people caused by accidents, disasters, or violence

40 3.4

A problem when a person cannot remember information or past experiences

30 2.6

A situation when a person no longer has a job because of company problems or a weak economy

13 2.7

A condition in which you cannot hear well in one or both ears

A situation where a person or business has less money than before

loss of consciousness
  • Specialized
6 5.3

A short time when a person is not aware of what is around them and does not respond

loss leader
  • Specialized
3 4.3

An item sold below cost to attract customers who buy other things

3 3.4

A record that shows a company's income, costs, and net profit or loss

A report that shows how much money a company made and spent during a period

loss ratio
  • Specialized
1 7.0

The part of customer payments for insurance paid out as claims in a period

capital loss
  • Specialized
1 6.0

A loss when you sell something like a house or stock for less than you paid

love and loss
  • Literature
1 4.4

Strong happy feelings for someone and the sadness that comes when they leave

paper loss
  • Specialized
1 6.1

A fall in an investment's value that is only on paper because you have not sold it

1 5.3

Hearing loss from damage to the inner ear or the nerve that sends sound to the brain

stop-loss order
  • Specialized
1 5.8

An instruction to automatically sell shares when their price falls to a set level to limit loss

4.1

Sound cannot pass through the middle ear to reach the inner ear, causing hearing loss

memory loss
  • Specialized
4.4

When a computer system or program forgets what it learned after training on new data

A report made at the end of a business year that shows its profit or loss

How Large

cost
749 1.0
loss
  • Specialized
10 5.7
error
306 1.0
residual
84 5.3

Surface Forms

loss singular
losses plural

Etymology

Loss comes from an old English word los and the verb lose, so in machine learning a loss is a number that shows how much the model's answers 'lose' compared to the true answers, meaning how wrong or far away they are.