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Lecture 3 | Loss Functions and Optimization

Stanford Vision & Learning Lab Faculty

1:14:40·2017·graduate level

This lecture introduces the formalization of loss functions, specifically multiclass SVM loss and multinomial logistic regression loss, for quantifying model error in image classification. It details regularization techniques like weight decay to combat overfitting and introduces stochastic gradient descent as a primary optimization algorithm.

Lecture 3 continues our discussion of linear classifiers. We introduce the idea of a loss function to quantify our unhappiness with a model’s predictions, and discuss two commonly used loss functions for image classification: the multiclass SVM loss and the multinomial logistic regression loss. We introduce the idea of regularization as a mechanism to fight overfitting, with weight decay as a concrete example. We introduce the idea of optimization and the stochastic gradient descent algorithm. We also briefly discuss the use of feature representations in computer vision.

Keywords: Image classification, linear classifiers, SVM loss, regularization, multinomial logistic regression, optimization, stochastic gradient descent

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