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Dec 23, 2017 at 19:09 comment added Green Falcon @NeilSlater sure :)
Dec 23, 2017 at 14:46 comment added Neil Slater @Media: I'm not clear about your example. Maybe ask a question about it showing the full vector i.e. the whole label, and the whole estimate where you think there is a problem.
Dec 23, 2017 at 14:04 comment added Green Falcon @NeilSlater actually I was thinking about something. In the case that I mentioned, the error is zero which is the least error value that exist although there is 100% error in the typical mentioned situation, back propagation is leading us where? zero error rate isn't optimal? If gradient descent tries to move us to better place, Is there other places better than zero error? because this cost function can not be negative.
Dec 23, 2017 at 9:19 comment added Neil Slater @Media: Yes it will get updated, because the softmax transform links all the neuron values together, so even though the loss is effectively only calculated on one neuron's output after the softmax is applied, you will still calculate a non-zero gradient value for all the neurons at the pre-softmax linear (logit) stage using back propagation.
Dec 23, 2017 at 8:00 comment added Green Falcon based on your answer here and as I know, the second formula should be used for binary tasks to avoid the problem I mentioned.
Dec 23, 2017 at 7:47 comment added Green Falcon @NeilSlater actually I always had this problem but did not know how to ask. Suppose that you have just one sample and the label for that should be zero but the output of softmax is non-zero. Does it ever get updated? the lost is always zero.
Dec 23, 2017 at 6:25 comment added Jason Davis Thanks, I realize the missing link in my logic was that I was using the softmax activation, where the sum of the probabilities adds up to 1, and so each wrong classification takes away from the "strength" of the correct classification.
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