I’m new to ML and pytorch and trying to implement some basic algorithms. I’ve been trying to write a simple log loss function, but the accuracy is not what I would expect if I computed the gradients by hand.
out = torch.dot(w, z)
loss = -y*torch.log( torch.sigmoid( out )) - (1 - y)*torch.log( torch.sigmoid(-out))
The problem I’m seeing is that if  y = 1 and sigmoid(out) = 0  (or if y = 0 and sigmoid(-out) = 0), log(0) evaluates to NaN. But I feel like this should be a relatively simple function to implement.
(( know I could use the functions in the nn module, but I’m trying to write them myself first).
Any help would be appreciated.