Losses and objectives · MLD-0812
Noise-contrastive estimation
Learning an unnormalized model by distinguishing data from samples of a known noise distribution.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Estimate a language model without full normalization.
Original caveat
NCE and InfoNCE are related but distinct objectives.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Theory · Training · Evaluation.
Tags: ML · DL · SLM · LLM.
Aliases: NCE.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- Deep Learning: online textbook ↗ · Consulted
- scikit-learn: evaluation metrics ↗ · Reference link
- PyTorch neural-network layers ↗ · Reference link
- Original reference URL ↗