The cross entropy loss function is softmax. They are one and the same.
They’re not. Cross entropy loss is E[-log q] where q is a probability. You could convert the model outputs x into probabilities using some other function like q = 1/Z x^2, and compute cross entropy loss just fine.
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They’re not. Cross entropy loss is E[-log q] where q is a probability. You could convert the model outputs x into probabilities using some other function like q = 1/Z x^2, and compute cross entropy loss just fine.