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log1pexp, #52 #70

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@cossio cossio commented May 21, 2019

#52

(replaces #57)

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log1pexp, use float
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dmbates commented May 22, 2019

Looks good to me.

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cossio commented Jun 3, 2019

merge?

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cossio commented May 20, 2020

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@nalimilan nalimilan requested a review from dmbates June 7, 2020 14:22
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ Return `log(1+exp(x))` evaluated carefully for largish `x`.
This is also called the ["softplus"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier_(neural_networks))
transformation, being a smooth approximation to `max(0,x)`. Its inverse is [`logexpm1`](@ref).
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log1pexp(x::Real) = x < 18.0 ? log1p(exp(x)) : x < 33.3 ? x + exp(-x) : oftype(exp(-x), x)
log1pexp(x::Float32) = x < 9.0f0 ? log1p(exp(x)) : x < 16.0f0 ? x + exp(-x) : oftype(exp(-x), x)
log1pexp(x::Real) = x ≤ -37. ? exp(x) : x ≤ 18. ? log1p(exp(x)) : x ≤ 33.3 ? x + exp(-x) : float(x)
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Why use here but < in the Float32 method?

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This was now moved to JuliaStats/LogExpFunctions.jl#37. But to answer your question, I only copied the algorithm described in https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rmpfr/vignettes/log1mexp-note.pdf, which uses here.

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