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Loss Functions MCQ

10 Conceptual Questions with In-Depth Technical Explanations

Master Cross-Entropy, MSE, MAE, Huber Loss, Focal Loss, Triplet Loss, and KL Divergence.

Loss Functions Questions

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10 Questions
1

What is the mathematical formulation of Binary Cross-Entropy (Log Loss) for ground-truth y in {0, 1} and predicted probability p?

2

What is Categorical Cross-Entropy loss used for?

3

Why is Focal Loss (Lin et al., 2017) preferred over standard Cross-Entropy in dense object detection (RetinaNet)?

4

What is the key difference between Mean Squared Error (MSE, L2 loss) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE, L1 loss) in regression?

5

What is Smooth L1 Loss (Huber Loss), and why is it standard in object detection bounding box regression (Fast/Faster R-CNN)?

6

What is Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence loss used for in Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)?

7

What is Triplet Loss in metric learning and face recognition (FaceNet)?

8

What is Contrastive Loss (InfoNCE) used in self-supervised learning (e.g., SimCLR, CLIP)?

9

What is CTC (Connectionist Temporal Classification) Loss used for?

10

What is Dice Loss (Sorensen-Dice coefficient loss) standard for in medical image segmentation?

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