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Apple's cross entropy computation

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Hi thanks for the library! Today I see a paper https://openreview.net/forum?id=E4Fk3YuG56 (code: https://github.com/apple/ml-cross-entropy), which seems to discuss a way to compute cross entropy. Thus I share this here in case it is useful for this repository.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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