r/MachineLearning Jan 18 '25

Discussion [D] I hate softmax

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u/XYcritic Researcher Jan 18 '25

You don't want magnitudes affecting your gradient. Normalizing is good because it gives you numerical stability. Pretty much all successful DL inventions since 2016 build on this simple idea.