softmax
التعريفات والمعاني
== 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 ====
softmax (uncountable)
(mathematics, statistics) A generalization of the logistic function that "squashes" a K-dimensional vector
z
{\displaystyle \mathbf {z} }
of arbitrary real values to a K-dimensional vector
σ
(
z
)
{\displaystyle \sigma (\mathbf {z} )}
of real values in the range (0, 1).
=== Etymology 2 ===
From soft + -max.
==== Verb ====
softmax (third-person singular simple present softmaxes, present participle softmaxing, simple past and past participle softmaxed)
Alternative spelling of softmaxx.
=== Further reading ===
Softmax function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia