The author identifies a real problem and poses a simple solution. It passes all my crank tests (why did no one come up with this before? Because the author is intimately familiar with the softmax function from work outside of ML, and plausibly nobody who’s investigating these issues is remotely as familiar, so despite researchers narrowing the issue down to “something to do with softmax”, they don’t have a deep enough understanding of softmax to see what’s wrong).
If the author is reading any of these comments, though, I would urge them to expand on their claim that “I’m 99.44% sure that it will resolve the outlier feedback loop”. As it stands, that’s the only explanation we get of how the outliers might be related to softmax!
If the author is reading any of these comments, though, I would urge them to expand on their claim that “I’m 99.44% sure that it will resolve the outlier feedback loop”. As it stands, that’s the only explanation we get of how the outliers might be related to softmax!