In artificial intelligence, especially computer vision and artificial neural networks, a hard sigmoid is non-smooth function used in place of a sigmoid function. These retain the basic shape of a sigmoid, rising from 0 to 1, but using simpler functions, especially piecewise linear functions or piecewise constant functions. These are preferred where speed of computation is more important than precision.
The most extreme examples are the sign function or Heaviside step function, which go from −1 to 1 or 0 to 1 (which to use depends on normalization) at 0. [1]
Other examples include the Theano library, which provides two approximations: ultra_fast_sigmoid
, which is a multi-part piecewise approximation and hard_sigmoid
, which is a 3-part piecewise linear approximation (output 0, line with slope 0.2, output 1). [2] [3]
In machine learning, a neural network is a model inspired by the structure and function of biological neural networks in animal brains.
A sigmoid function is any mathematical function whose graph has a characteristic S-shaped or sigmoid curve.
An artificial neuron is a mathematical function conceived as a model of biological neurons in a neural network. Artificial neurons are the elementary units of artificial neural networks. The artificial neuron is a function that receives one or more inputs, applies weights to these inputs, and sums them to produce an output.
In computer programming, gene expression programming (GEP) is an evolutionary algorithm that creates computer programs or models. These computer programs are complex tree structures that learn and adapt by changing their sizes, shapes, and composition, much like a living organism. And like living organisms, the computer programs of GEP are also encoded in simple linear chromosomes of fixed length. Thus, GEP is a genotype–phenotype system, benefiting from a simple genome to keep and transmit the genetic information and a complex phenotype to explore the environment and adapt to it.
In machine learning, backpropagation is a gradient estimation method commonly used for training neural networks to compute the network parameter updates.
When classification is performed by a computer, statistical methods are normally used to develop the algorithm.
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a class of artificial neural networks for sequential data processing. Unlike feedforward neural networks, which process data in a single pass, RNNs process data across multiple time steps, making them well-adapted for modelling and processing text, speech, and time series.
A feedforward neural network (FNN) is one of the two broad types of artificial neural network, characterized by direction of the flow of information between its layers. Its flow is uni-directional, meaning that the information in the model flows in only one direction—forward—from the input nodes, through the hidden nodes and to the output nodes, without any cycles or loops, in contrast to recurrent neural networks, which have a bi-directional flow. Modern feedforward networks are trained using the backpropagation method and are colloquially referred to as the "vanilla" neural networks.
A multilayer perceptron (MLP) is a name for a modern feedforward artificial neural network, consisting of fully connected neurons with a nonlinear activation function, organized in at least three layers, notable for being able to distinguish data that is not linearly separable.
In a statistical-classification problem with two classes, a decision boundary or decision surface is a hypersurface that partitions the underlying vector space into two sets, one for each class. The classifier will classify all the points on one side of the decision boundary as belonging to one class and all those on the other side as belonging to the other class.
ADALINE is an early single-layer artificial neural network and the name of the physical device that implemented this network. It was developed by professor Bernard Widrow and his doctoral student Ted Hoff at Stanford University in 1960. It is based on the perceptron. It consists of a weight, a bias and a summation function. The weights and biases were implemented by rheostats, and later, memistors.
The activation function of a node in an artificial neural network is a function that calculates the output of the node based on its individual inputs and their weights. Nontrivial problems can be solved using only a few nodes if the activation function is nonlinear. Modern activation functions include the smooth version of the ReLU, the GELU, which was used in the 2018 BERT model, the logistic (sigmoid) function used in the 2012 speech recognition model developed by Hinton et al, the ReLU used in the 2012 AlexNet computer vision model and in the 2015 ResNet model.
In the mathematical theory of artificial neural networks, universal approximation theorems are theorems of the following form: Given a family of neural networks, for each function from a certain function space, there exists a sequence of neural networks from the family, such that according to some criterion. That is, the family of neural networks is dense in the function space.
There are many types of artificial neural networks (ANN).
In the context of artificial neural networks, the rectifier or ReLU activation function is an activation function defined as the non-negative part of its argument:
A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a regularized type of feed-forward neural network that learns features by itself via filter optimization. This type of deep learning network has been applied to process and make predictions from many different types of data including text, images and audio. Convolution-based networks are the de-facto standard in deep learning-based approaches to computer vision and image processing, and have only recently have been replaced -- in some cases -- by more recent deep learning architectures such as the transformer. Vanishing gradients and exploding gradients, seen during backpropagation in earlier neural networks, are prevented by using regularized weights over fewer connections. For example, for each neuron in the fully-connected layer, 10,000 weights would be required for processing an image sized 100 × 100 pixels. However, applying cascaded convolution kernels, only 25 neurons are required to process 5x5-sized tiles. Higher-layer features are extracted from wider context windows, compared to lower-layer features.
Extreme learning machines are feedforward neural networks for classification, regression, clustering, sparse approximation, compression and feature learning with a single layer or multiple layers of hidden nodes, where the parameters of hidden nodes need to be tuned. These hidden nodes can be randomly assigned and never updated, or can be inherited from their ancestors without being changed. In most cases, the output weights of hidden nodes are usually learned in a single step, which essentially amounts to learning a linear model.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to machine learning:
rnn is an open-source machine learning framework that implements recurrent neural network architectures, such as LSTM and GRU, natively in the R programming language, that has been downloaded over 100,000 times.
The swish function is a mathematical function defined as follows: