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Apr 2020
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Activate deep learning neurons faster wi...

FRANCESCO GADALETA
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In this episode I briefly explain the concept behind activation functions in deep learning. One of the most widely used activation function is the rectified linear unit (ReLU). 
While there are several flavors of ReLU in the literature, in this episode I speak about a very interesting approach that keeps computational complexity low while improving performance quite consistently.

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References

Dynamic ReLU https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10027

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