Focal Loss: Focusing on Hard Examples
Learn focal loss for deep learning: down-weight easy examples, focus on hard ones. Interactive demos of gamma, alpha balancing, and RetinaNet.
Clear explanations of core machine learning concepts, from foundational ideas to advanced techniques. Understand attention mechanisms, transformers, skip connections, and more.
Learn focal loss for deep learning: down-weight easy examples, focus on hard ones. Interactive demos of gamma, alpha balancing, and RetinaNet.
Learn He (Kaiming) initialization for ReLU networks: why ReLU needs special weight initialization, variance flow, and dead neurons explained.
Learn KL divergence for machine learning: measure distribution differences in VAEs, knowledge distillation, and variational inference.
Interactive guide to MSE vs MAE for regression: explore outlier sensitivity, gradient behavior, and Huber loss with visualizations.
Learn Xavier (Glorot) initialization: how it balances forward signals and backward gradients to enable stable deep network training with tanh and sigmoid.
Learn ALiBi, the position encoding method that adds linear biases to attention scores for exceptional length extrapolation in transformers.