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Randomized Leaky Rectified Linear Units

RReLU

3 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Bing Xu et al. in Empirical Evaluation of Rectified Activations in Convolutional Network

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Randomized Leaky Rectified Linear Units, or RReLU, are an activation function that randomly samples the negative slope for activation values. It was first proposed and used in the Kaggle NDSB Competition. During training, aⱼᵢ is a random number sampled from a uniform distribution U(l, u). Formally:

yⱼᵢ = xⱼᵢ if xⱼᵢ ≥0 yⱼᵢ = aⱼᵢxⱼᵢ if xⱼᵢ < 0

where

αⱼᵢ ∼U(l, u), l < u and l, u ∈[0,1)

In the test phase, we take average of all the aⱼᵢ in training similar to dropout, and thus set aⱼᵢ to (l+u)/2 to get a deterministic result. As suggested by the NDSB competition winner, aⱼᵢ is sampled from U(3, 8).

At test time, we use:

yⱼᵢ = xⱼᵢ/((l+u)/2)

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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General Classification1
Image Classification1
Micro Expression Recognition1
Micro-Expression Recognition1
Transfer Learning1
image-classification1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with RReLU: 2015 to 2020, peak 1 1 0 2015: 1 paper 2015 2016: 0 papers 2016 2017: 0 papers 2017 2018: 1 paper 2018 2019: 0 papers 2019 2020: 1 paper 2020
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