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Shifted Softplus

20 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Kristof T. Schütt et al. in SchNet: A continuous-filter convolutional neural network for modeling quantum interactions

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Shifted Softplus is an activation function ssp(x) = ln( 0.5 eˣ + 0.5 ), which SchNet employs as non-linearity throughout the network in order to obtain a smooth potential energy surface. The shifting ensures that ssp(0) = 0 and improves the convergence of the network. This activation function shows similarity to ELUs, while having infinite order of continuity.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

19 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
Formation Energy4
Computational Efficiency3
Property Prediction3
BIG-bench Machine Learning2
Deep Learning2
Graph Neural Network2
3D Pose Estimation1
Active Learning1
Benchmarking1
Computational chemistry1
Drug Discovery1
Hyperparameter Optimization1
Mixture-of-Experts1
Molecular Property Prediction1
Robust Design1
Time Series1
Transfer Learning1
Uncertainty Quantification1
regression1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Shifted Softplus: 2017 to 2025, peak 4 4 0 2017: 1 paper 2017 2018: 3 papers 2018 2019: 0 papers 2019 2020: 4 papers 2020 2021: 1 paper 2021 2022: 3 papers 2022 2023: 1 paper 2023 2024: 4 papers 2024 2025: 3 papers 2025
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