# mx.nd.MakeLoss¶

## Description¶

Make your own loss function in network construction.

This operator accepts a customized loss function symbol as a terminal loss and the symbol should be an operator with no backward dependency. The output of this function is the gradient of loss with respect to the input data.

For example, if you are a making a cross entropy loss function. Assume out is the predicted output and label is the true label, then the cross entropy can be defined as:

cross_entropy = label * log(out) + (1 - label) * log(1 - out)
loss = MakeLoss(cross_entropy)

We will need to use MakeLoss when we are creating our own loss function or we want to
combine multiple loss functions. Also we may want to stop some variables' gradients
from backpropagation. See more detail in BlockGrad or stop_gradient.

In addition, we can give a scale to the loss by setting grad_scale,
so that the gradient of the loss will be rescaled in the backpropagation.


Note

This operator should be used as a Symbol instead of NDArray.

## Arguments¶

Argument

Description

data

NDArray-or-Symbol.

Input array.

grad.scale

float, optional, default=1.

Gradient scale as a supplement to unary and binary operators

valid.thresh

float, optional, default=0.

clip each element in the array to 0 when it is less than valid_thresh. This is used when normalization is set to 'valid'.

normalization

{‘batch’, ‘null’, ‘valid’},optional, default=’null’.

If this is set to null, the output gradient will not be normalized. If this is set to batch, the output gradient will be divided by the batch size. If this is set to valid, the output gradient will be divided by the number of valid input elements.

## Value¶

out The result mx.ndarray