Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Here's step-by-step guide that shows you how to take the derivatives of the SoftMax function, as used as a final output layer in a Neural Networks.

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0:00 Awesome song and introduction
0:57 SoftMax derivative with respect to the output of interest
3:58 SoftMax derivative with respect to other outputs

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