Magnet loss is a type of loss function used in distance metric learning machine learning problems. It was introduced in the paper Metric Learning with Adaptive Density Discrimination. The authors of the paper introduced magnet loss as an improvement over triplet loss and other loss functions designed to learn a distance metric.

Instead of working on individuals, pairs, or triplets of data points, magnet loss operates on entire regions of the embedding space that the data points inhabit. Magnet loss models the distributions of different classes in the embedding space and works to reduce the overlap between distributions.