May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 19m
English
The L1 loss function, also known as the mean absolute error, measures the average point-wise difference between the model prediction,
, and the target value,
. The partial derivative is equal to 1 when the model prediction is larger than the target value, and equal to -1 when the prediction is smaller than the target error. This property of the L1 loss function can be used to circumvent problems that might arise when learning from noisy labels:
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