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Serf

3 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

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

Serf, or Log-Softplus ERror activation Function, is a type of activation function which is self-regularized and nonmonotonic in nature. It belongs to the Swish family of functions. Serf is defined as:

f(x) = xerf(ln(1 + eˣ))

Source: SERF: Towards better training of deep neural networks...

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

10 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Image Classification1
Machine Translation1
Object Detection1
Sentiment Analysis1
Sentiment Classification1
Sleep Quality1
Sleep Staging1
Translation1
image-classification1
object-detection1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Serf: 2021 to 2023, peak 1 1 0 2021: 1 paper 2021 2022: 1 paper 2022 2023: 1 paper 2023
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (3 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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