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Smish

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Smish is an activation function defined as f(x)=x·tanh(ln(1+σ(x))) where σ(x) denotes the sigmoid function. A parameterized version was also described in the form f(x)=αx·tanh(ln(1+σ(βx))).

Paper: Smish: A Novel Activation Function for Deep Learning Methods

Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/540

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Papers per year tagged with Smish: 2023 to 2023, peak 1 1 0 2023: 1 paper 2023
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Activation Functions

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