Deep Learning Tutorial 3
Deep Learning Tutorial 3
Theory + Practical
Nidhi chouhan
Normalize/Standardize
Artificial Neural Network
Applying Activation
Function
What is an Activation Function?
Activation functions are an extremely important feature of the artificial neural networks.
They basically decide whether a neuron should be activated or not. Whether the
information that the neuron is receiving is relevant for the given information or should it
be ignored.
The activation function is the non linear transformation that we do over the input
signal. This transformed output is then seen to the next layer of neurons as input.
What we have done here is that we have simply replaced the horizontal line with a non-zero, non-horizontal line.
Here a is a small value like 0.01 or so.
Hyperbolic tangent function?
Pronounced “tanch,” tanh is a hyperbolic trigonometric function
The tangent represents a ratio between the opposite and adjacent sides of a right triangle,
tanh represents the ratio of the hyperbolic sine to the hyperbolic cosine: tanh(x) = sinh(x) /
cosh(x)
Unlike the Sigmoid function, the normalized range of tanh is –1 to 1 The advantage of tanh is
that it can deal more easily with negative numbers
Softmax Function (for Multiple Classification)?
Softmax function calculates the probabilities distribution of the event over ‘n’ different events. In general way of
saying, this function will calculate the probabilities of each target class over all possible target classes. Later the
calculated probabilities will be helpful for determining the target class for the given inputs.
The main advantage of using Softmax is the output probabilities range. The range will 0 to 1, and the sum of all
the probabilities will be equal to one. If the softmax function used for multi-classification model it returns the
probabilities of each class and the target class will have the high probability.
The formula computes the exponential (e-power) of the given input value and the sum of exponential values of
all the values in the inputs. Then the ratio of the exponential of the input value and the sum of exponential values
is the output of the softmax function.
Activation Function Example
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