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Activation Functions

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ReLU – 10,350
Sigmoid Activation – 7,112
Tanh Activation – 6,333
Gated Linear Unit – 798
PReLU Parameterized ReLU – 119
ReLU6 – 95
FEM Features Explanation Method – 90
Hard Swish – 90
RBF Radial Basis Function – 62
Maxout – 50
ELU Exponential Linear Unit – 44
ARiA Adaptive Richard's Curve Weighted Activation – 30
SiLU Sigmoid Linear Unit – 30
Shifted Softplus – 20
Squared ReLU – 15
SwiGLU – 13
Softsign Activation – 12
ASU Amplifying Sine Unit: An Oscillatory Activation Function for Deep Neural Networks to Recover Nonlinear Oscillations Efficiently – 9
CReLU – 9
KAF Kernel Activation Function – 9
Siren Sinusoidal Representation Network – 9
modReLU – 6
Poly Polynomial – 5
TanhExp Tanh Exponential Activation Function – 5
DRA Dynamic Range Activator – 4
Hard Sigmoid – 4
GCU Growing Cosine Unit – 3
Hermite Activation Hermite Polynomial Activation 2019 3
RReLU Randomized Leaky Rectified Linear Units – 3
Serf – 3
m-arcsinh modified arcsinh – 3
AHAF Adaptive Hybrid Activation Function – 2
CELU Continuously Differentiable Exponential Linear Units – 2
ConGater Controllable Gate Adapter – 2
DELU – 2
E-swish – 2
GeGLU – 2
Margin ReLU Margin Rectified Linear Unit – 2
PAU Padé Activation Units – 2
PELU Parametric Exponential Linear Unit – 2
Phish Phish: A Novel Hyper-Optimizable Activation Function – 2
ReGLU – 2
SReLU S-shaped ReLU – 2
ANDHRA Module Ajay N’ Daliparthi Hyper Rectified Activation – 1
CoLU Collapsing Linear Unit – 1
CosLU Cosine Linear Unit – 1
ELiSH Exponential Linear Squashing Activation – 1
GCLU Gaussian Calibration Linear Unit – 1
GoLU Gompertz Linear Unit – 1
Gumbel Activation Gumbel Cross Entropy – 1
HardELiSH – 1
HeLU Hysteresis Rectified Linear Unit – 1
LinComb Linear Combination of Activations – 1
NAIL OR Logit-space OR-gate (Normalized Approximate Independent Logit) – 1
NLSIG nlogistic-sigmoid function – 1
NormLinComb Normalized Linear Combination of Activations – 1
ReLUN Rectified Linear Unit N – 1
SERLU – 1
SSFG regularization Stochastically Scaling Features and Gradients Regularization – 1
ScaledSoftSign – 1
ShiLU Shifted Rectified Linear Unit – 1
Smish – 1
Smooth Step – 1
StarReLU – 1
TAAF The Analog Activation Function – 1
a-m-lines a-m-parametric lines – 1
ASAF Adaptive Spline Activation Function – 0
Hardtanh Activation – 0
Lecun's Tanh 1998 0