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Make probability predictions for multiclass classification #38

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dscolby opened this issue Mar 28, 2024 · 3 comments
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Make probability predictions for multiclass classification #38

dscolby opened this issue Mar 28, 2024 · 3 comments
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dscolby commented Mar 28, 2024

This is essentially the same thing as #36. We will use the clipping function because it preserves class predictions and constrains the predictions within the range of natural values.

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dscolby commented Mar 28, 2024

We should also include a note in the documentation for this.

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dscolby commented Apr 29, 2024

Since an ELM is minimizing an MSE loss, we can do this for binary outcomes by clipping values outside of [0, 1] but this isn't really feasible for categorical variables. For example, if there are four categories, 1, 2,3, and 4, the model predicts 1.6, and the actual class is 4, you can't interpret this as having a higher probability of being 3 than 4 because these are just arbitrary categories. Therefore, we will only support clipping functions for binary treatments and outcomes.

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dscolby commented Apr 29, 2024

Closing since this isn't feasible.

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