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Tanh Activation

6,333 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

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Tanh Activation is an activation function used for neural networks:

f(x) = (eˣ - e⁻ˣ)/(eˣ + e⁻ˣ)

Historically, the tanh function became preferred over the sigmoid function as it gave better performance for multi-layer neural networks. But it did not solve the vanishing gradient problem that sigmoids suffered, which was tackled more effectively with the introduction of ReLU activations.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Sentence436
Time Series406
Language Modelling405
Decoder358
Time Series Analysis340
Language Modeling332
General Classification313
Translation312
Neural Architecture Search277
Prediction276
Sentiment Analysis258
Deep Learning235
Machine Translation231
Classification216
Word Embeddings209
Speech Recognition208
speech-recognition196
Transfer Learning186
Data Augmentation162
Reinforcement Learning155

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Tanh Activation: 2014 to 2025, peak 1,098 1,098 0 2014: 14 papers 2014 2015: 57 papers 2015 2016: 179 papers 2016 2017: 332 papers 2017 2018: 659 papers 2018 2019: 1009 papers 2019 2020: 1098 papers 2020 2021: 898 papers 2021 2022: 643 papers 2022 2023: 609 papers 2023 2024: 583 papers 2024 2025: 252 papers 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (6,333 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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