Scaling outputs in multi-hot encoding and using class weights












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I have a recurrent neural network to classify sequential data.



Not all samples have the same relevance to the prediction, others include multiple classes at once. For example a sequence of words could be both class 0 and class 1.



[1,0,0], [0,1,0] -> [0.5,0.5,0] 


Therefore i would like to blend class probabilities in my training data, using somewhat of a multi hot encoding. I feel like this approach just creates new (scaled) classes in instead of yielding better training results for existing classes.



When using this data as sample_weights for training this leads to very small classes, for example:



These three classes:
Class 0: [1.0,0.0,0.0]
Class 1: [0.0,1.0,0.0]
Class 2: [1.0,0.0,1.0]



become



Class 0: [1.0,0.0,0.0]
Class 1: [0.9,0.1,0.0]
..
Class 9: [0.0,1.0,0.0]
..



This is problematic because I would like to set the class_weights for just the three classes independent of the scaling according to their sample count.



Also: How can I do that in Keras?










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    I have a recurrent neural network to classify sequential data.



    Not all samples have the same relevance to the prediction, others include multiple classes at once. For example a sequence of words could be both class 0 and class 1.



    [1,0,0], [0,1,0] -> [0.5,0.5,0] 


    Therefore i would like to blend class probabilities in my training data, using somewhat of a multi hot encoding. I feel like this approach just creates new (scaled) classes in instead of yielding better training results for existing classes.



    When using this data as sample_weights for training this leads to very small classes, for example:



    These three classes:
    Class 0: [1.0,0.0,0.0]
    Class 1: [0.0,1.0,0.0]
    Class 2: [1.0,0.0,1.0]



    become



    Class 0: [1.0,0.0,0.0]
    Class 1: [0.9,0.1,0.0]
    ..
    Class 9: [0.0,1.0,0.0]
    ..



    This is problematic because I would like to set the class_weights for just the three classes independent of the scaling according to their sample count.



    Also: How can I do that in Keras?










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      I have a recurrent neural network to classify sequential data.



      Not all samples have the same relevance to the prediction, others include multiple classes at once. For example a sequence of words could be both class 0 and class 1.



      [1,0,0], [0,1,0] -> [0.5,0.5,0] 


      Therefore i would like to blend class probabilities in my training data, using somewhat of a multi hot encoding. I feel like this approach just creates new (scaled) classes in instead of yielding better training results for existing classes.



      When using this data as sample_weights for training this leads to very small classes, for example:



      These three classes:
      Class 0: [1.0,0.0,0.0]
      Class 1: [0.0,1.0,0.0]
      Class 2: [1.0,0.0,1.0]



      become



      Class 0: [1.0,0.0,0.0]
      Class 1: [0.9,0.1,0.0]
      ..
      Class 9: [0.0,1.0,0.0]
      ..



      This is problematic because I would like to set the class_weights for just the three classes independent of the scaling according to their sample count.



      Also: How can I do that in Keras?










      share|improve this question














      I have a recurrent neural network to classify sequential data.



      Not all samples have the same relevance to the prediction, others include multiple classes at once. For example a sequence of words could be both class 0 and class 1.



      [1,0,0], [0,1,0] -> [0.5,0.5,0] 


      Therefore i would like to blend class probabilities in my training data, using somewhat of a multi hot encoding. I feel like this approach just creates new (scaled) classes in instead of yielding better training results for existing classes.



      When using this data as sample_weights for training this leads to very small classes, for example:



      These three classes:
      Class 0: [1.0,0.0,0.0]
      Class 1: [0.0,1.0,0.0]
      Class 2: [1.0,0.0,1.0]



      become



      Class 0: [1.0,0.0,0.0]
      Class 1: [0.9,0.1,0.0]
      ..
      Class 9: [0.0,1.0,0.0]
      ..



      This is problematic because I would like to set the class_weights for just the three classes independent of the scaling according to their sample count.



      Also: How can I do that in Keras?







      python keras lstm recurrent-neural-network one-hot-encoding






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