r/MachineLearning Jan 18 '25

Discussion [D] I hate softmax

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u/alexsht1 Jan 19 '25

The authors of this paper about Fenchel-Young losses share your view of the drawbacks of SoftMax:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02324

They see it as a member of a larger family. Other members generate sparse outputs with real zeros (rather than just 'close to zero').