softmax · noun1
Coined by John S. Bridle in 1989, on the grounds of the function being "a differentiable generalisation of the 'winner-take-all' operation of picking the maximum value".
softmax · verb2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
softmax
Today it means: A generalization of the logistic function that "squashes" a K-dimensional vector mathbf z of arbitrary real values to a K-dimensional vector σ( mathbf z) of real values in the range (0, 1). Full definition →