所有机器学习者应该知道的5中回归损失函数(三)

Regression functions predict a quantity, and classification functions predict a label.

回归函数预测的是数值，而分类函数预测的是标签。

Regression loss

1. Mean Square Error, Quadratic loss, L2 Loss
Mean Square Error (MSE) is the most commonly used regression loss function. MSE is the sum of squared distances between our target variable and predicted values.

回归损失

1.均方误差(mean square error，MSE)(或者称为平方损失，L2损失？)

均方误差是最常用的回归损失函数。顾名思义，均方误差即为我们的目标值和预测值平方距离的平均值。(原博客说是sum，只是求和吗？有点儿晕。。。)。

Below is a plot of an MSE function where the true target value is 100,and the predicted values range between -10,000 to 10,000. The MSE loss (Y-axis) reaches its minimum value at prediction (X-axis) = 100.The range is 0 to ∞.

下面是MSE函数曲线图(横坐标为预测值，纵坐标为MSE损失)，真实目标值为100，预测值在-10000到10000之间变化。显而易见，当预测值为100时，MSE损失最小。