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Global Hierarchical Neural Networks using Hierarchical Softmax

2 Aug 2023arXiv:2308.01210archive 2025-07-28

Jetze Schuurmans, Flavius Frasincar

This paper presents a framework in which hierarchical softmax is used to create a global hierarchical classifier. The approach is applicable for any classification task where there is a natural hierarchy among classes. We show empirical results on four text classification datasets. In all datasets the hierarchical softmax improved on the regular softmax used in a flat classifier in terms of macro-F1 and macro-recall. In three out of four datasets hierarchical softmax achieved a higher micro-accuracy and macro-precision.

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