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Grokking Deep Learning
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Grokking Deep Learning

by Andrew W. Trask
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 29m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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Chapter 9. Modeling probabilities and nonlinearities: activation functions

In this chapter

What is an activation function?

Standard hidden activation functions

  • Sigmoid
  • Tanh

Standard output activation functions

  • Softmax

Activation function installation instructions

“I know that 2 and 2 make 4—& should be glad to prove it too if I could—though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”

George Gordon Byron, letter to Annabella Milbanke, November 10, 1813

What is an activation function?

It’s a function applied to the neurons in a layer during prediction

An activation function is a function applied to the neurons in a layer during prediction. This should seem very familiar, ...

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