Learned budget assignments in Volume are softmax normalised #144
Labels
enhancement
New feature or request
good first issue
Good for newcomers
idea
Something not relevant to current work, but could be useful in the future
low priority
Should be fixed eventually, but isn't urgent
Optimisation
Issue affects the optimisation of the detector
Volume.assign_budget
takes the learnedbudget_weights
[-inf,inf] and normalises them to sum to 1 via a softmax function.This has the advantage that the learnable parameters have no constraint on their values (i.e. don't have to be positive).
It does however meant that there is a non-linear relationship between the learned values and the actual budget that each detector receives; which could lead to unpredictable/unexpected behaviour (e.g. panels suddenly becoming very large/small).
Instead I think it might be worth investigating how well the optimisation handles clamping the parameters in [0,inf] and normalising by their sum.
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