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ReLU

Rectified Linear Unit, defined as `f(x) = max(0, x)`. It is inexpensive and has a non-saturating positive branch, though zero gradients on negative inputs can create inactive units.

Related terms

  • Activation Function
  • Gradient
  • CNN (Convolutional Neural Network)
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