Questions tagged [sigmoid]
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Equivalent of sigmoid function with two thresholds
Is there a standard/frequently used/convenient equivalent to sigmoid function with two thresholds? Background When writing a likelihood of data for a binary classification problem one would often ...
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Why softmax training is more stable
I'm wondering about which activation function will be easier to train with (get better accuracy / smallest loss) - with SoftMax or sigmoid (for multiclass classification problem) According to: https://...
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Is this an unusual distribution for a sigmoid output from a neural network?
Shown here is the histogram of around 130K predictions of my deep neural network that is classifying some financial data. This is on the dev set but a similar distribution is also seen on the train ...
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Improvement of the Keras model for a regression task
I am trying to build an expectation model for my (19502,3) data using Keras Sequential model. This dataset has been generated using a parametric sweep in a simulation software. With this model, I want ...
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Logistic Regression mapping formula
Sigmoid function predicts the probability value which is between 0 & 1. What is the formula in logistic regression that maps the predicted probabilities to either 1 or 0?
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Understanding intution behind sigmoid curve in the context of back propagation
I was trying to understand significance of S-shape of sigmoid / logistic function. The slope/derivative of sigmoid approaches zero for very large and very small input values. That is $σ'(z) ≈ 0$ for $...
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Difference in performance Sigmoid vs. Softmax
For the same Binary Image Classification task, if in the final layer I use 1 node with Sigmoid activation function and ...
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The sum of multi-class prediction is not 1 using tensorflow and keras?
I am studying how to do text classification with multiple labels using tensorflow. Let's say my model is like: ...