Chapter 11.04: Regression Losses: L2 and L1 loss

In this section, we revisit L2 and L1 loss, highlighting that their risk minimizers are the conditional mean and median, respectively, and that their optimal constant models correspond to the empirical mean and median of observed targets.

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