class QuadraticCost(object):
@staticmethod
def fn(a, y):
"""Return the cost associated with an output ``a`` and desired output
``y``.
"""
return 0.5*np.linalg.norm(a-y)**2
@staticmethod
def delta(z, a, y):
"""Return the error delta from the output layer."""
return (a-y) * sigmoid_prime(z)
class CrossEntropyCost(object):
@staticmethod
def fn(a, y):
"""Return the cost associated with an output ``a`` and desired output
``y``. Note that np.nan_to_num is used to ensure numerical
stability. In particular, if both ``a`` and ``y`` have a 1.0
in the same slot, then the expression (1-y)*np.log(1-a)
returns nan. The np.nan_to_num ensures that that is converted
to the correct value (0.0).
"""
return np.sum(np.nan_to_num(-y*np.log(a)-(1-y)*np.log(1-a)))
@staticmethod
def delta(z, a, y):
"""Return the error delta from the output layer. Note that the
parameter ``z`` is not used by the method. It is included in
the method's parameters in order to make the interface
consistent with the delta method for other cost classes.
"""
return (a-y)