Softmax

English

Etymology 1

Coined by John S. Bridle in 1989, on the grounds of the function being "a differentiable generalisation of the 'winner-take-all' operation of picking the maximum value".

Noun

1. Template:Lb A generalization of the logistic function that "squashes" a K-dimensional vector $𝐳$ of arbitrary real values to a K-dimensional vector $\sigma (𝐳)$ of real values in the range (0, 1).

Etymology 2

Verb

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