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Power Consumption Variation over Activation Functions

12 Jun 2020arXiv:2006.07237archive 2025-07-28

Leon Derczynski

The power that machine learning models consume when making predictions can be affected by a model's architecture. This paper presents various estimates of power consumption for a range of different activation functions, a core factor in neural network model architecture design. Substantial differences in hardware performance exist between activation functions. This difference informs how power consumption in machine learning models can be reduced.

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