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Loss Function Trade-Offs

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Can you explain the trade-offs between different loss functions in your previous machine learning projects? Discuss how you selected a loss function for the prediction objective, including its effects on optimization, outliers or mislabeled data, class imbalance, calibration, and the evaluation metric. Demonstrate the comparison with production-quality Python on a tabular classification dataset, using a fixed validation protocol and explaining which loss you would deploy and why.