How important are activation functions in regression and classification? A survey, performance comparison, and future directions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02681v2
• Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 15:57:52 GMT
• Title: How important are activation functions in regression and classification? A survey, performance comparison, and future directions
• Authors: Ameya D. Jagtap and George Em Karniadakis
• Abstract summary: We survey the activation functions that have been employed in the past as well as the current state-of-the-art. In recent years, a physics-informed machine learning framework has emerged for solving problems related to scientific computations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Inspired by biological neurons, the activation functions play an essential part in the learning process of any artificial neural network commonly used in many real-world problems. Various activation functions have been proposed in the literature for classification as well as regression tasks. In this work, we survey the activation functions that have been employed in the past as well as the current state-of-the-art. In particular, we present various developments in activation functions over the years and the advantages as well as disadvantages or limitations of these activation functions. We also discuss classical (fixed) activation functions, including rectifier units, and adaptive activation functions. In addition to presenting the taxonomy of activation functions based on characterization, a taxonomy of activation functions based on applications is also presented. To this end, the systematic comparison of various fixed and adaptive activation functions is performed for classification data sets such as the MNIST, CIFAR-10, and CIFAR-100. In recent years, a physics-informed machine learning framework has emerged for solving problems related to scientific computations. To this purpose, we also discuss various requirements for activation functions that have been used in the physics-informed machine learning framework. Furthermore, various comparisons are made among different fixed and adaptive activation functions using various machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, Pytorch, and JAX.

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