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Softmax

37,443 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

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The Softmax output function transforms a previous layer's output into a vector of probabilities. It is commonly used for multiclass classification. Given an input vector x and a weighting vector w we have:

P(y=j |x) = (e^(xᵀwⱼ))/(∑ᴷₖ₌₁e^(xᵀwk))

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Language Modelling3,434
Language Modeling2,738
Retrieval2,062
Decoder1,736
Question Answering1,673
Object Detection1,632
Semantic Segmentation1,608
object-detection1,505
Sentence1,465
RAG1,381
Image Classification1,323
Retrieval-augmented Generation1,208
Translation1,173
Segmentation1,134
Transfer Learning1,102
image-classification1,083
Machine Translation1,029
Classification1,028
Object1,003
Large Language Model998

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Softmax: 2009 to 2025, peak 11,110 11,110 0 2009: 1 paper 2009 2010: 0 papers 2011: 1 paper 2011 2012: 2 papers 2013: 5 papers 2013 2014: 11 papers 2015: 68 papers 2015 2016: 134 papers 2017: 301 papers 2017 2018: 653 papers 2019: 1937 papers 2019 2020: 3042 papers 2021: 3987 papers 2021 2022: 4025 papers 2023: 5978 papers 2023 2024: 11110 papers 2025: 6188 papers 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (37,443 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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