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| author | Naftali Harris <naftaliharris@gmail.com> | 2014-07-30 09:56:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com> | 2014-07-30 09:56:59 -0700 |
| commit | e3d85b7e40073b05e2588583e9d8db11366c2f7b (patch) | |
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| parent | 3bc3f1801e3347e02cbecdd8e941003430155da2 (diff) | |
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Avoid numerical instability
This avoids basically doing 1 - 1, for example:
```python
>>> from math import exp
>>> margin = -40
>>> 1 - 1 / (1 + exp(margin))
0.0
>>> exp(margin) / (1 + exp(margin))
4.248354255291589e-18
>>>
```
Author: Naftali Harris <naftaliharris@gmail.com>
Closes #1652 from naftaliharris/patch-2 and squashes the following commits:
0d55a9f [Naftali Harris] Avoid numerical instability
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