why omit the bias in softmax regression

[samuel1208]

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[RalphMao]

I am also wondering about it

[nik-ko]

"Another property that could potentially be interesting is that the softmax output is
invariant under additive changes of its input vector: softmax(a) = softmax(a + b) when
b is a scalar added to all the elements of vector a. "
from: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/mlp.html#pf8

Or:
http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Softmax_Regression