Showing posts with label Activation Functions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Activation Functions. Show all posts

AI Terms Glossary - Activation Functions

 


The use of activation functions rather than linear functions in traditional regression models gives neural networks a lot of their strength.

In most neural networks, the inputs to a node are weighted and then summed.

After that, a non-linear activation function is applied to the total.

Although output nodes should have activation functions suited to the distribution of the output variables, these functions are often sigmoidal (monotone rising) functions like a logistic or Gaussian function.

In statistical generalized linear models, activation functions are closely connected to link functions and have been extensively researched in that context.


See Also: 

Softmax.



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