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by Amit Shekhar · 2 August 2019

What Are L1 and L2 Loss Functions?

The L1 and L2 Loss functions.

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What Are L1 and L2 Loss Functions?
Read on Outcome School ↗then come back to lock it in
Before you read, guess

Which loss function minimizes error by summing the squared differences between true and predicted values?

Ten seconds, a guess, then read — a wrong guess still makes the answer stick.

What this article covers

  1. L1 Loss Function
  2. L2 Loss Function
  3. How to decide between L1 and L2 Loss Function?

The article lives on outcomeschool.com. Read it there, then come back: the tutor in the margin has read it and will answer questions, and the questions below check what stayed.

Before you go

In one sentence, what was this chapter about?

From memory, without scrolling up. Writing it is what makes it yours; the grade is only to show you what you had.

How sure?