Activation Functions in Machine Learning

Sigmoid, Hyperbolic Tangent (Tanh), Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU), Leaky ReLU, The softmax

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5 min readJan 31, 2023

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Artificial neural networks rely heavily on activation functions, which are used to predict a neuron’s output based on its inputs and weights. We will examine the fundamentals of activation functions and how they are used in machine learning in this post.

What are Activation Functions?

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