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Growing Cosine Unit
GCU
archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.
An oscillatory function defined as x ·cos(x) that reports better performance than Sigmoid, Mish, Swish, and ReLU on several benchmarks.
Papers archive 2025-07-28
3 shown of 3, newest first. Repository counts are the archive's code-links table. A Syntology line states what Syntology ran from that paper's harvested code; it is per sample and not a correctness claim.
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Improving Lesion Segmentation in Medical Images by Global and Regional Feature Compensation 12 Feb 2025 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2502.08675
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Amplifying Sine Unit: An Oscillatory Activation Function for Deep Neural Networks to Recover Nonlinear Oscillations Efficiently 18 Apr 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2304.09759
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Growing Cosine Unit: A Novel Oscillatory Activation Function That Can Speedup Training and Reduce Parameters in Convolutional Neural Networks 30 Aug 2021 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2108.12943
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
7 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.
| Task | Papers |
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| Feature Engineering | 1 |
| Image Segmentation | 1 |
| Lesion Segmentation | 1 |
| Medical Image Segmentation | 1 |
| Segmentation | 1 |
| Self-Supervised Learning | 1 |
| Semantic Segmentation | 1 |
Usage over time archive 2025-07-28
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Categories archive 2025-07-28
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