The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 14: Softmax...

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Day 14 of this ML advent calendar series tackles softmax regression - and yes, they built it in Excel There's something satisfying about watching multiclass classification become completely transparent when you can see every score and probability update in real-time. A solid reminder that the jump from binary to multiclass logistic regression is more elegant than intimidating.

Day 14 of this ML advent calendar series tackles softmax regression - and yes, they built it in Excel 📊 There's something satisfying about watching multiclass classification become completely transparent when you can see every score and probability update in real-time. A solid reminder that the jump from binary to multiclass logistic regression is more elegant than intimidating.

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The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 14: Softmax Regression in Excel

Softmax Regression is simply Logistic Regression extended to multiple classes. By computing one linear score per class and normalizing them with Softmax, we obtain multiclass probabilities without changing the core logic. The loss, the gradients, and the optimization remain the same. Only the number of parallel scores increases. Implemented in Excel, the model becomes transparent: you can see the scores, the probabilities, and how the coefficients evolve over time. The post The Machine Learning

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