DOC: Clarify that CrossEntropyLoss mean is weighted#40991
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Summary: Closes pytorch#40560 This adds the equation for the weighted mean to `CrossEntropyLoss`'s docs and the `reduction` argument for `CrossEntropyLoss` and `NLLLoss` no longer describes a non-weighted mean of the outputs. Pull Request resolved: pytorch#40991 Differential Revision: D22395805 Pulled By: ezyang fbshipit-source-id: a623b6dd2aab17220fe0bf706bd9b62d6ba531fd
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Summary: Closes pytorch#40560 This adds the equation for the weighted mean to `CrossEntropyLoss`'s docs and the `reduction` argument for `CrossEntropyLoss` and `NLLLoss` no longer describes a non-weighted mean of the outputs. Pull Request resolved: pytorch#40991 Differential Revision: D22395805 Pulled By: ezyang fbshipit-source-id: a623b6dd2aab17220fe0bf706bd9b62d6ba531fd
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Closes #40560
This adds the equation for the weighted mean to
CrossEntropyLoss's docs and thereductionargument forCrossEntropyLossandNLLLossno longer describes a non-weighted mean of the outputs.