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Deep Learning with PyTorch
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Deep Learning with PyTorch

by Vishnu Subramanian
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
262 pages
6h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Sigmoid

The sigmoid activation function has a simple mathematical form, as follows:

The sigmoid function intuitively takes a real-valued number and outputs a number in a range between zero and one. For a large negative number, it returns close to zero and, for a large positive number, it returns close to one. The following plot represents different sigmoid function outputs:

The sigmoid function has been historically used across different architectures, but in recent times it has gone out of popularity as it has one major drawback. When the ...

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