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Loss Functions and Empirical Risk
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0-1 loss, squared loss, absolute loss, logistic/cross-entropy; population risk vs. empirical risk minimization (ERM).
Goal
Write the empirical risk for regression and classification; explain why we optimize a surrogate loss and how it relates to the true risk.
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