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How do you choose loss functions for computer vision tasks (classification, detection, segmentation)?

Cross-entropy is the start, not the answer. The signal is matching the loss to the task structure: focal for detection's background flood, IoU-family for box overlap, Dice for imbalanced masks. Here is how to reason about it.

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Cross-entropy is the start, not the answer. The signal is matching the loss to the task structure: focal for detection's background flood, IoU-family for box overlap, Dice for imbalanced masks. Here is how to reason about it.

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