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Module 4 of 6

Loss Functions & Gradients

Understand how models measure and minimize error.

Progress0/3 drills ยท 0%
FREE~25 minยทBeginner

What you'll learn

  • โœ“MSE and MAE loss functions
  • โœ“Cross-entropy loss with numerical stability
  • โœ“Numerical gradient checking with finite differences

Drills

1

MSE & MAE Loss

Implement mean squared error, mean absolute error, and the MSE gradient.

Easy๐Ÿ• 8mโšก 10 pts
2

Cross-Entropy Loss

Implement binary and categorical cross-entropy with numerical stability โ€” the standard classification loss.

Medium๐Ÿ• 10mโšก 15 pts
3

Numerical Gradient Checking

Implement finite-difference gradient checking โ€” the standard way to verify backprop implementations.

Medium๐Ÿ• 8mโšก 15 pts

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