Improvements on Activation Functions in ANN: An Overview

Lexuan YANG

Abstract


Activation functions are an essential part of artificial neural networks. Over the years, researches have been done to seek for new functions that perform better. There are several mainstream activation functions, such as sigmoid and ReLU, which are widely used across the decades. At the meantime, many modified versions of these functions are also proposed by researchers in order to further improve the performance. In this paper, limitations of the mainstream activation functions, as well as the main characteristics and relative performances of their modifications, are discussed.


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Activation functions; ANN; piecewise-linear

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