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How do I use negative examples (in addition to positive ones) for training a multiclass softmax classifier (or a neural net with softmax output)?

Suppose we are training a neural network for multi-class classification, and we use softmax (or hierarchical softmax) as its output layer. For positive examples, we need to maximize the log ...
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Training N classifiers for N labels vs one classifier with N labels

I have a classification problem which is multi-label with N labels. I would like to know which method would be the better choice? Training N classifiers (1 for each label) or a single classifier which ...
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Multi-label or multi-class...or both?

I'm having a hard time getting the difference between multi-class and multi-label classification with CNNs. My understanding is that if I want to classify different breeds of dogs, that is a multi-...
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