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Cross-Entropy vs MSE Gradients

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You're training a supervised model and comparing common loss functions for prediction tasks. You want to understand not just how the losses are defined, but how they change optimization behavior during training.

Question

Explain the mathematical difference between Cross-Entropy and Mean Squared Error loss functions, and how do they affect gradient updates?