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Unlock: Cross-Entropy Loss: MLE, KL Divergence, and Classification

Why cross-entropy is the correct loss for classification: its derivation as negative log-likelihood, connection to KL divergence, why MSE fails for classification, and practical variants including label smoothing and focal loss.

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