Is a neural network consisting of a single softmax classification layer only a linear classifier?
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Since the softmax function is a generalization of the logistic function it is continuous and non-linear.
So the output of the softmax layer is: softmax( weight_matrix * input_activation)
weight_matrix * input_activation is purely linear combination of features.
The question is: if the application of the softmax activation still yields in a linear classifier or is the model then capable of representing non-linear functions?
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Since the softmax function is a generalization of the logistic function it is continuous and non-linear.
So the output of the softmax layer is: softmax( weight_matrix * input_activation)
weight_matrix * input_activation is purely linear combination of features.
The question is: if the application of the softmax activation still yields in a linear classifier or is the model then capable of representing non-linear functions?
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Since the softmax function is a generalization of the logistic function it is continuous and non-linear.
So the output of the softmax layer is: softmax( weight_matrix * input_activation)
weight_matrix * input_activation is purely linear combination of features.
The question is: if the application of the softmax activation still yields in a linear classifier or is the model then capable of representing non-linear functions?
neural-networks generalized-linear-model softmax
asked Nov 22 at 14:07
tamtam_
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Since the softmax function is a generalization of the logistic function it is continuous and non-linear.
So the output of the softmax layer is: softmax( weight_matrix * input_activation)
weight_matrix * input_activation is purely linear combination of features.
The question is: if the application of the softmax activation still yields in a linear classifier or is the model then capable of representing non-linear functions?
neural-networks generalized-linear-model softmax
neural-networks generalized-linear-model softmax
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A neural network with no hidden layers and a soft max output layer is exactly logistic regression (possibly with more than 2 classes), when trained to minimize categorical cross-entropy (equivalently maximize the log-likelihood of a multinomial model).
Your explanation is right on the money: a linear combination of inputs learns linear functions, and the soft max function yields a probability vector.
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A neural network with no hidden layers and a soft max output layer is exactly logistic regression (possibly with more than 2 classes), when trained to minimize categorical cross-entropy (equivalently maximize the log-likelihood of a multinomial model).
Your explanation is right on the money: a linear combination of inputs learns linear functions, and the soft max function yields a probability vector.
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A neural network with no hidden layers and a soft max output layer is exactly logistic regression (possibly with more than 2 classes), when trained to minimize categorical cross-entropy (equivalently maximize the log-likelihood of a multinomial model).
Your explanation is right on the money: a linear combination of inputs learns linear functions, and the soft max function yields a probability vector.
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A neural network with no hidden layers and a soft max output layer is exactly logistic regression (possibly with more than 2 classes), when trained to minimize categorical cross-entropy (equivalently maximize the log-likelihood of a multinomial model).
Your explanation is right on the money: a linear combination of inputs learns linear functions, and the soft max function yields a probability vector.
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A neural network with no hidden layers and a soft max output layer is exactly logistic regression (possibly with more than 2 classes), when trained to minimize categorical cross-entropy (equivalently maximize the log-likelihood of a multinomial model).
Your explanation is right on the money: a linear combination of inputs learns linear functions, and the soft max function yields a probability vector.
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