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Type of activation function

In the context of artificial neural networks, the rectifier or ReLU activation function is an activation function defined as the non-negative part of its argument, i.e., the ramp function: Wikipedia →

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Noun A smooth approximation to the rectifier in neural networks; it is the analytic function f(x)=ln⁡(1+ex).

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