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A function used to quantify the difference between observed data and predicted values according to a model. Minimization of loss functions is a way to estimate the parameters of the model.

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Why binary crossentropy can be used as the loss function in autoencoders? [duplicate]

I was wondering why binary crossentropy can be used as the loss function in autoencoders trained on (normalized) images, e.g. here or this paper? I know that binary crossentropy can be used in binray …
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Why binary crossentropy can be used as the loss function in autoencoders?

I thought a regression loss function such as mean squared error or mean absolute error must be used instead, which have a value of zero when labels and predictions are the same. That's exactly the m …
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