• mrchampion@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Good old ReLU. I’ve heard that CNN’s perform better when using ReLU as the activation func, and that’s probably why; ReLU acts as a filter on the image’s features.

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        4 hours ago

        Nah. Without a nonlinearity you just get a linear combination of inputs instead of the output of a deep neural network. ReLU or Ramp is just the simplest possible non linearity. Using a simple function can enable using deeper networks yielding even better performance.

        It’s actually somewhat of a headache, numerically. Works well enough tho.