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Mathematics for machine learning

Information theory basics

Entropy, cross-entropy, KL divergence, and where they appear in losses.

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  1. Lesson 1 of 5

    Entropy and uncertainty

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  2. Lesson 2 of 5

    Cross-entropy

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  3. Lesson 3 of 5

    KL divergence

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  4. Lesson 4 of 5

    Mutual information

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  5. Lesson 5 of 5

    Information theory in loss functions

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