How to calculate a logistic sigmoid function in Python?

Question

This is a logistic sigmoid function:

I know x. How can I calculate F(x

Answer 1

Below is the python function to do the same.

def sigmoid(x) :
    return 1.0/(1+np.exp(-x))

Answer 2

A numerically stable version of the logistic sigmoid function.

    def sigmoid(x):
        pos_mask = (x >= 0)
        neg_mask = (x < 0)
        z = np.zeros_like(x,dtype=float)
        z[pos_mask] = np.exp(-x[pos_mask])
        z[neg_mask] = np.exp(x[neg_mask])
        top = np.ones_like(x,dtype=float)
        top[neg_mask] = z[neg_mask]
        return top / (1 + z)

Answer 3

Another way by transforming the tanh function:

sigmoid = lambda x: .5 * (math.tanh(.5 * x) + 1)

Answer 4

another way

>>> def sigmoid(x):
...     return 1 /(1+(math.e**-x))
...
>>> sigmoid(0.458)

Answer 5

Here's how you would implement the logistic sigmoid in a numerically stable way (as described here):

def sigmoid(x):
    "Numerically-stable sigmoid function."
    if x >= 0:
        z = exp(-x)
        return 1 / (1 + z)
    else:
        z = exp(x)
        return z / (1 + z)

Or perhaps this is more accurate:

import numpy as np

def sigmoid(x):  
    return math.exp(-np.logaddexp(0, -x))

Internally, it implements the same condition as above, but then uses log1p.

In general, the multinomial logistic sigmoid is:

def nat_to_exp(q):
    max_q = max(0.0, np.max(q))
    rebased_q = q - max_q
    return np.exp(rebased_q - np.logaddexp(-max_q, np.logaddexp.reduce(rebased_q)))

(However, logaddexp.reduce could be more accurate.)

Answer 6

Tensorflow includes also a sigmoid function: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r1.2/api_docs/python/tf/sigmoid

import tensorflow as tf

sess = tf.InteractiveSession()
x = 0.458
y = tf.sigmoid(x)

u = y.eval()
print(u)
# 0.6125396