mlx.nn.losses.cross_entropy#

class cross_entropy(logits: array, targets: array, weights: array | None = None, axis: int = -1, label_smoothing: float = 0.0, reduction: Literal['none', 'mean', 'sum'] = 'none')#

Computes the cross entropy loss.

Parameters:

  • logits (array) – The unnormalized logits.

  • targets (array) – The ground truth values. These can be class indices or probabilities for each class. If the targets are class indices, then targets shape should match the logits shape with the axis dimension removed. If the targets are probabilities (or one-hot encoded), then the targets shape should be the same as the logits shape.

  • weights (array, optional) – Optional weights for each target. Default: None.

  • axis (int, optional) – The axis over which to compute softmax. Default: -1.

  • label_smoothing (float, optional) – Label smoothing factor. Default: 0.

  • reduction (str, optional) – Specifies the reduction to apply to the output: 'none' | 'mean' | 'sum'. Default: 'none'.

Returns:

The computed cross entropy loss.

Return type:

array

Examples

>>> import mlx.core as mx
>>> import mlx.nn as nn
>>>
>>> # Class indices as targets
>>> logits = mx.array([[2.0, -1.0], [-1.0, 2.0]])
>>> targets = mx.array([0, 1])
>>> nn.losses.cross_entropy(logits, targets)
array([0.0485873, 0.0485873], dtype=float32)
>>>
>>> # Probabilities (or one-hot vectors) as targets
>>> logits = mx.array([[2.0, -1.0], [-1.0, 2.0]])
>>> targets = mx.array([[0.9, 0.1], [0.1, 0.9]])
>>> nn.losses.cross_entropy(logits, targets)
array([0.348587, 0.348587], dtype=float32)