[Numpy-discussion] ENH: softmax

[Warren Weckesser]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Kulick, Johannes <jkkulick at amazon.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I regularly need the softmax function (https://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/Softmax_function) for my code. I have a quite efficient pure python
> implementation (credits to Nolan Conaway). I think it would be a valuable
> enhancement of the ndarray class. But since it is kind of a specialty
> function I wanted to ask you if you would consider it to be part of the
> numpy core (alongside ndarray.max and ndarray.argmax) or rather in scipy
> (e.g. scipy.stats seems also an appropriate place).
>
>

Johannes,

If the numpy devs aren't interested in adding it to numpy, I'm pretty sure
we can get it in scipy.  I've had adding it (or at least proposing that it
be added) to scipy on my to-do list for quite a while now.

Warren



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