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Hard Sigmoid

4 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Matthieu Courbariaux et al. in BinaryConnect: Training Deep Neural Networks with binary weights during propagations

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

The Hard Sigmoid is an activation function used for neural networks of the form:

f(x) = max(0, min(1,(x+1)/2))

Image Source: Rinat Maksutov

PaperSourceSee Code · tensorflow/tensorflow

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Clustering1
Image Segmentation1
Network Pruning1
Semantic Segmentation1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Hard Sigmoid: 2015 to 2022, peak 1 1 0 2015: 1 paper 2015 2016: 0 papers 2016 2017: 0 papers 2017 2018: 0 papers 2018 2019: 1 paper 2019 2020: 1 paper 2020 2021: 0 papers 2021 2022: 1 paper 2022
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