The Meaning Behind Logistic Classification, from Physics

In classification problems, why do we use the logistic and softmax functions? Thermal physics may have an answer.

Tim Lou, PhD
Towards Data Science
9 min readJan 24, 2023

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Logistic regression is ubiquitous, but what’s the intuition behind why it works? (Image by Author)

Logistic regression is perhaps the most popular and well-known machine learning model. It solves the binary classification problem — for predicting whether a data point belongs to…

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