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Cost function

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Cost function can refer to:

  • In economics, the cost curve, expressing production costs in terms of the amount produced.
  • In mathematical optimization, the loss function, a function to be minimized.
  • In artificial neural networks, the function to return a number representing how well the neural network performed to map training examples to correct output.