Timeline for Why to optimize max log probability instead of probability
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| Sep 29, 2015 at 20:36 | comment | added | Meni Rosenfeld | @TemplateRex: The log of a (downward) convex positive function is convex, but the converse isn't true. The probabilities aren't convex so they have nothing to preserve, but the log is convex. Look at the graphs I linked - exp(-10x^2) is obviously non-convex, but -10x^2 is. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 19:27 | history | edited | Meni Rosenfeld | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2015 at 19:22 | history | answered | Meni Rosenfeld | CC BY-SA 3.0 |