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author Joseph Turian <turian@gmail.com>
date Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:14:49 -0400
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"""
Cost functions.

@note: All of these functions return one cost per example. So it is your
job to perform a tensor.sum over the individual example losses.
"""

import theano.tensor as T

def quadratic(target, output, axis=1):
    return T.mean(T.sqr(target - output), axis)

def cross_entropy(target, output, axis=1):
    """
    @todo: This is essentially duplicated as nnet_ops.binary_crossentropy
    @warning: OUTPUT and TARGET are reversed in nnet_ops.binary_crossentropy
    """
    return -T.mean(target * T.log(output) + (1 - target) * T.log(1 - output), axis=axis)