从Udacity的深度学习课程中,y_i的softmax仅仅是指数除以整个Y向量的指数之和:

其中S(y_i)是y_i的软最大函数e是指数函数j是no。输入向量Y中的列。

我试过以下几种方法:

import numpy as np

def softmax(x):
    """Compute softmax values for each sets of scores in x."""
    e_x = np.exp(x - np.max(x))
    return e_x / e_x.sum()

scores = [3.0, 1.0, 0.2]
print(softmax(scores))

返回:

[ 0.8360188   0.11314284  0.05083836]

但建议的解决方案是:

def softmax(x):
    """Compute softmax values for each sets of scores in x."""
    return np.exp(x) / np.sum(np.exp(x), axis=0)

它产生与第一个实现相同的输出,尽管第一个实现显式地取每列与Max的差值,然后除以和。

有人能用数学方法解释一下吗?一个是对的,另一个是错的?

实现在代码和时间复杂度方面是否相似?哪个更有效率?


当前回答

我需要一些与Tensorflow的密集层输出兼容的东西。

来自@desertnaut的解决方案在本例中不起作用,因为我有一批数据。因此,我提出了另一个解决方案,应该在这两种情况下工作:

def softmax(x, axis=-1):
    e_x = np.exp(x - np.max(x)) # same code
    return e_x / e_x.sum(axis=axis, keepdims=True)

结果:

logits = np.asarray([
    [-0.0052024,  -0.00770216,  0.01360943, -0.008921], # 1
    [-0.0052024,  -0.00770216,  0.01360943, -0.008921]  # 2
])

print(softmax(logits))

#[[0.2492037  0.24858153 0.25393605 0.24827873]
# [0.2492037  0.24858153 0.25393605 0.24827873]]

参考:Tensorflow softmax

其他回答

The purpose of the softmax function is to preserve the ratio of the vectors as opposed to squashing the end-points with a sigmoid as the values saturate (i.e. tend to +/- 1 (tanh) or from 0 to 1 (logistical)). This is because it preserves more information about the rate of change at the end-points and thus is more applicable to neural nets with 1-of-N Output Encoding (i.e. if we squashed the end-points it would be harder to differentiate the 1-of-N output class because we can't tell which one is the "biggest" or "smallest" because they got squished.); also it makes the total output sum to 1, and the clear winner will be closer to 1 while other numbers that are close to each other will sum to 1/p, where p is the number of output neurons with similar values.

从向量中减去最大值的目的是,当你计算e^y指数时,你可能会得到非常高的值,将浮点数夹在最大值处,导致平局,但在这个例子中不是这样。如果你减去最大值得到一个负数,那么就会出现一个大问题,然后你就会得到一个负指数,它会迅速缩小数值,改变比率,这就是在海报上的问题中发生的情况,并得到错误的答案。

Udacity提供的答案效率低得可怕。我们需要做的第一件事是计算所有向量分量的e^y_j, KEEP这些值,然后求和,然后除。Udacity搞砸的地方是他们计算了两次e^y_j !!正确答案如下:

def softmax(y):
    e_to_the_y_j = np.exp(y)
    return e_to_the_y_j / np.sum(e_to_the_y_j, axis=0)

(好吧…这里有很多困惑,在问题和答案中…)

首先,这两个解决方案(即你的解决方案和建议的解决方案)是不相等的;它们恰好只在一维分数数组的特殊情况下是等价的。如果你也尝试过Udacity测试提供的例子中的二维分数数组,你就会发现它。

就结果而言,两个解决方案之间的唯一实际区别是axis=0参数。为了了解情况,让我们试试你的解决方案(your_softmax),其中唯一的区别是axis参数:

import numpy as np

# your solution:
def your_softmax(x):
    """Compute softmax values for each sets of scores in x."""
    e_x = np.exp(x - np.max(x))
    return e_x / e_x.sum()

# correct solution:
def softmax(x):
    """Compute softmax values for each sets of scores in x."""
    e_x = np.exp(x - np.max(x))
    return e_x / e_x.sum(axis=0) # only difference

正如我所说,对于一个1-D分数数组,结果确实是相同的:

scores = [3.0, 1.0, 0.2]
print(your_softmax(scores))
# [ 0.8360188   0.11314284  0.05083836]
print(softmax(scores))
# [ 0.8360188   0.11314284  0.05083836]
your_softmax(scores) == softmax(scores)
# array([ True,  True,  True], dtype=bool)

尽管如此,以下是Udacity测试中给出的二维分数数组作为测试示例的结果:

scores2D = np.array([[1, 2, 3, 6],
                     [2, 4, 5, 6],
                     [3, 8, 7, 6]])

print(your_softmax(scores2D))
# [[  4.89907947e-04   1.33170787e-03   3.61995731e-03   7.27087861e-02]
#  [  1.33170787e-03   9.84006416e-03   2.67480676e-02   7.27087861e-02]
#  [  3.61995731e-03   5.37249300e-01   1.97642972e-01   7.27087861e-02]]

print(softmax(scores2D))
# [[ 0.09003057  0.00242826  0.01587624  0.33333333]
#  [ 0.24472847  0.01794253  0.11731043  0.33333333]
#  [ 0.66524096  0.97962921  0.86681333  0.33333333]]

结果是不同的——第二个结果确实与Udacity测试中预期的结果相同,其中所有列的总和确实为1,而第一个(错误的)结果不是这样。

所以,所有的麻烦实际上是一个实现细节-轴参数。根据numpy。和文档:

默认值axis=None将对输入数组的所有元素求和

而这里我们想按行求和,因此axis=0。对于一个一维数组,(唯一的)行和所有元素的和恰好是相同的,因此在这种情况下你会得到相同的结果…

抛开轴的问题不谈,你的实现(即你选择先减去最大值)实际上比建议的解决方案更好!事实上,这是实现softmax函数的推荐方式-请参阅这里的理由(数值稳定性,也在这里的一些其他答案中指出)。

下面是使用numpy的广义解,以及与tensorflow和scipy的正确性比较:

数据准备:

import numpy as np

np.random.seed(2019)

batch_size = 1
n_items = 3
n_classes = 2
logits_np = np.random.rand(batch_size,n_items,n_classes).astype(np.float32)
print('logits_np.shape', logits_np.shape)
print('logits_np:')
print(logits_np)

输出:

logits_np.shape (1, 3, 2)
logits_np:
[[[0.9034822  0.3930805 ]
  [0.62397    0.6378774 ]
  [0.88049906 0.299172  ]]]

使用tensorflow的Softmax:

import tensorflow as tf

logits_tf = tf.convert_to_tensor(logits_np, np.float32)
scores_tf = tf.nn.softmax(logits_np, axis=-1)

print('logits_tf.shape', logits_tf.shape)
print('scores_tf.shape', scores_tf.shape)

with tf.Session() as sess:
    scores_np = sess.run(scores_tf)

print('scores_np.shape', scores_np.shape)
print('scores_np:')
print(scores_np)

print('np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1).shape', np.sum(scores_np,axis=-1).shape)
print('np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1):')
print(np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1))

输出:

logits_tf.shape (1, 3, 2)
scores_tf.shape (1, 3, 2)
scores_np.shape (1, 3, 2)
scores_np:
[[[0.62490064 0.37509936]
  [0.4965232  0.5034768 ]
  [0.64137274 0.3586273 ]]]
np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1).shape (1, 3)
np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1):
[[1. 1. 1.]]

使用scipy的Softmax:

from scipy.special import softmax

scores_np = softmax(logits_np, axis=-1)

print('scores_np.shape', scores_np.shape)
print('scores_np:')
print(scores_np)

print('np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1).shape', np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1).shape)
print('np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1):')
print(np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1))

输出:

scores_np.shape (1, 3, 2)
scores_np:
[[[0.62490064 0.37509936]
  [0.4965232  0.5034768 ]
  [0.6413727  0.35862732]]]
np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1).shape (1, 3)
np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1):
[[1. 1. 1.]]

Softmax使用numpy (https://nolanbconaway.github.io/blog/2017/softmax-numpy):

def softmax(X, theta = 1.0, axis = None):
    """
    Compute the softmax of each element along an axis of X.

    Parameters
    ----------
    X: ND-Array. Probably should be floats.
    theta (optional): float parameter, used as a multiplier
        prior to exponentiation. Default = 1.0
    axis (optional): axis to compute values along. Default is the
        first non-singleton axis.

    Returns an array the same size as X. The result will sum to 1
    along the specified axis.
    """

    # make X at least 2d
    y = np.atleast_2d(X)

    # find axis
    if axis is None:
        axis = next(j[0] for j in enumerate(y.shape) if j[1] > 1)

    # multiply y against the theta parameter,
    y = y * float(theta)

    # subtract the max for numerical stability
    y = y - np.expand_dims(np.max(y, axis = axis), axis)

    # exponentiate y
    y = np.exp(y)

    # take the sum along the specified axis
    ax_sum = np.expand_dims(np.sum(y, axis = axis), axis)

    # finally: divide elementwise
    p = y / ax_sum

    # flatten if X was 1D
    if len(X.shape) == 1: p = p.flatten()

    return p


scores_np = softmax(logits_np, axis=-1)

print('scores_np.shape', scores_np.shape)
print('scores_np:')
print(scores_np)

print('np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1).shape', np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1).shape)
print('np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1):')
print(np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1))

输出:

scores_np.shape (1, 3, 2)
scores_np:
[[[0.62490064 0.37509936]
  [0.49652317 0.5034768 ]
  [0.64137274 0.3586273 ]]]
np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1).shape (1, 3)
np.sum(scores_np, axis=-1):
[[1. 1. 1.]]

目标是使用Numpy和Tensorflow实现类似的结果。与原始答案的唯一变化是np的轴参数。和api。

初始方法:axis=0 -然而,当维度为N时,这并不能提供预期的结果。

修改方法:axis=len(e_x.shape)-1 -总是在最后一个维度上求和。这提供了与tensorflow的softmax函数类似的结果。

def softmax_fn(input_array):
    """
    | **@author**: Prathyush SP
    |
    | Calculate Softmax for a given array
    :param input_array: Input Array
    :return: Softmax Score
    """
    e_x = np.exp(input_array - np.max(input_array))
    return e_x / e_x.sum(axis=len(e_x.shape)-1)

为了保持数值的稳定性,应减去max(x)。下面是softmax函数的代码;

def softmax (x):

if len(x.shape) > 1:
    tmp = np.max(x, axis = 1)
    x -= tmp.reshape((x.shape[0], 1))
    x = np.exp(x)
    tmp = np.sum(x, axis = 1)
    x /= tmp.reshape((x.shape[0], 1))
else:
    tmp = np.max(x)
    x -= tmp
    x = np.exp(x)
    tmp = np.sum(x)
    x /= tmp


return x