Houjun Liu

softmax

\begin{equation} softmax\qty(x_{i}) = \frac{\exp(x_{i})}{\sum_{j=1}^{n} \exp(x_{j})} \end{equation}

its “softmax”!

  • max: amplifies the probability of the largest \(x_{i}\)
  • soft: because it assign some probability to smaller \(x_{j}\) as well