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Explains the elementwise rule and traces a vector example, but does not develop derivatives or optimization details.

ReLU

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A ReLU is an activation function that outputs zero for negative inputs and a linearly increasing value for positive inputs.

A ReLU, or rectified linear unit, is an activation function: it replaces every negative input with 0 and leaves positive values unchanged. This simple rule adds nonlinearity to a neural network. section 11.25

ReLU is useful because some neurons can remain inactive instead of all activating at once. That can reduce computation and may help the network find solutions faster, unlike activation functions whose extreme values can contribute to vanishing gradients. section 9.10

Applying ReLU step by step

Given the vector [1.5921, 0.3436, -0.5260, 1.7674, -0.4769], ReLU scans each value independently. The positive values stay the same, while the negative values become zero, producing [1.5921, 0.3436, 0, 1.7674, 0]. In a projection layer, this happens after multiplying by weights and adding a bias. section 11.25

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activation functionkind of · An activation function maps a neural-network unit’s or layer’s input to an output, often introducing nonlinearity into the network’s computation.
vanishing gradient problemaddresses · The vanishing-gradient problem is a neural-network training difficulty in which gradients shrink toward zero as they propagate backward, making updates to earlier layers or distant sequence steps ineffective.
AlexNetused by · AlexNet is a convolutional neural network architecture designed for image classification and recognized for its landmark performance in large-scale image recognition.
tanhcontrasts with · The hyperbolic tangent, or tanh, is a smooth nonlinear function that maps real-valued inputs to values between −1 and 1.
Swishcontrasts with · Swish, also called SiLU, is a smooth neural-network activation function defined as x multiplied by the sigmoid of βx.
SwiGLUalternative to · SwiGLU is a gated linear-unit activation variant that multiplies a SiLU-activated linear projection by a second learned linear projection.

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