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Computes sigmoid cross entropy given logits.

Measures the probability error in discrete classification tasks in which each class is independent and not mutually exclusive. For instance, one could perform multilabel classification where a picture can contain both an elephant and a dog at the same time.

For brevity, let `x = logits`, `z = targets`. The logistic loss is

z * -log(sigmoid(x)) + (1 - z) * -log(1 - sigmoid(x)) = z * -log(1 (1 + exp(-x))) + (1 - z) * -log(exp(-x) (1 + exp(-x))) = z * log(1 + exp(-x)) + (1 - z) * (-log(exp(-x)) + log(1 + exp(-x))) = z * log(1 + exp(-x)) + (1 - z) * (x + log(1 + exp(-x)) = (1 - z) * x + log(1 + exp(-x)) = x - x * z + log(1 + exp(-x))

For x < 0, to avoid overflow in exp(-x), we reformulate the above

x - x * z + log(1 + exp(-x)) = log(exp(x)) - x * z + log(1 + exp(-x)) = - x * z + log(1 + exp(x))

Hence, to ensure stability and avoid overflow, the implementation uses this equivalent formulation

max(x, 0) - x * z + log(1 + exp(-abs(x)))

logits and targets must have the same type and shape.