# hinge_embedding_loss¶

paddle.nn.functional. hinge_embedding_loss ( input, label, margin=1.0, reduction='mean', name=None ) [source]

This operator calculates hinge_embedding_loss. Measures the loss given an input tensor $$x$$ and a labels tensor $$y$$, and is typically used for learning nonlinear embeddings or semi-supervised learning.

The loss function for $$n$$-th sample in the mini-batch is

$\begin{split}l_n = \begin{cases} x_n, & \text{if}\; y_n = 1,\\ \max \{0, \Delta - x_n\}, & \text{if}\; y_n = -1, \end{cases}\end{split}$

and the total loss functions is

$\begin{split}\ell(x, y) = \begin{cases} \operatorname{mean}(L), & \text{if reduction} = \text{'mean';}\\ \operatorname{sum}(L), & \text{if reduction} = \text{'sum'.} \end{cases}\end{split}$

where $$L = \{l_1,\dots,l_N\}^\top$$.

Parameters
• input (Tensor) – Input tensor, the data type is float32 or float64. the shape is [N, *], N is batch size and * means any number of additional dimensions, available dtype is float32, float64.

• label (Tensor) – Label tensor containing 1 or -1, the data type is float32 or float64. The shape of label is the same as the shape of input.

• margin (float, optional) – Specifies the hyperparameter margin to be used. The value determines how large the input need to be to calculate in hinge_embedding_loss. When label is -1, Input smaller than margin are minimized with hinge_embedding_loss. Default = 1.0

• reduction (str, optional) – Indicate how to average the loss by batch_size. the candicates are 'none' | 'mean' | 'sum'. If reduction is 'none', the unreduced loss is returned; If reduction is 'mean', the reduced mean loss is returned; If reduction is 'sum', the summed loss is returned. Default: 'mean'

• name (str, optional) – Name for the operation (optional, default is None). For more information, please refer to Name.

Shape:

input: N-D Tensor, the shape is [N, *], N is batch size and * means any number of additional dimensions, available dtype is float32, float64. The sum operationoperates over all the elements.

label: N-D Tensor, same shape as the input. tensor elements should containing 1 or -1, the data type is float32 or float64.

output: scalar. If reduction is 'none', then same shape as the input.

Returns

Tensor. The tensor variable storing the hinge_embedding_loss of input and label.

Examples

import paddle
import paddle.nn.functional as F

input = paddle.to_tensor([[1, -2, 3], [0, -1, 2], [1, 0, 1]], dtype=paddle.float32)
# label elements in {1., -1.}
label = paddle.to_tensor([[-1, 1, -1], [1, 1, 1], [1, -1, 1]], dtype=paddle.float32)

loss = F.hinge_embedding_loss(input, label, margin=1.0, reduction='none')
print(loss)
# Tensor([[0., -2., 0.],
#         [0., -1., 2.],
#         [1., 1., 1.]])

loss = F.hinge_embedding_loss(input, label, margin=1.0, reduction='mean')
print(loss)
# Tensor([0.22222222])