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What problem does focal loss address?
PostedJun 18, 2026
Question: What is focal loss designed to address?
A) Excessive memory use in decision trees
B) Lack of differentiability in linear regression
C) Class imbalance by down-weighting easy examples and focusing training on hard examples
D) Overuse of batch normalization
Correct: C
Explanation: Focal loss modifies cross-entropy by reducing the contribution of easy, well-classified examples. This helps the model focus more on hard or minority-class examples.
Topic: advanced ML / object detection / class imbalance