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/*
* streams library
*
* Copyright (C) 2011-2012 by Christian Bockermann, Hendrik Blom
*
* streams is a library, API and runtime environment for processing high
* volume data streams. It is composed of three submodules "stream-api",
* "stream-core" and "stream-runtime".
*
* The streams library (and its submodules) is free software: you can
* redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
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*
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*/
package stream.learner.evaluation;
/**
*
* This interface defines an abstract loss function.
*
*
* @author Christian Bockermann <[email protected]>
*
*/
public interface LossFunction {
/**
* Compute the loss between x1 and x2.
*
* @param x1
* @param x2
* @return
*/
public double loss( T x1, T x2 );
}