# OnCo record cross-entropy-mse (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/terms/cross-entropy-mse/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "cross-entropy-mse" ;
  schema:name "Loss functions: cross-entropy and mean squared error"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "cross-entropy"@en, "cross-entropy loss"@en, "mean squared error"@en, "MSE loss"@en, "reconstruction loss"@en, "loss function"@en, "training objective"@en ;
  schema:description "A loss function is the number training tries to make small: cross-entropy for classification (how surprised the model was by the true class) and mean squared error for regression and reconstruction (how far off the predicted values were)."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/cross-entropy-mse/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-24"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-entropy> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_squared_error>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-entropy> ;
  onco:tag "cansim-terms" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/cancer-ai-vocabulary/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/masked-modelling/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/ridge-regression/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/time-dependent-auc/> .