Bounded activation functions for enhanced training stability of deep neural networks on visual pattern recognition problems

• Main Authors: Liew, S. S., Khalil-Hani, M., Bakhteri, R.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2016
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/71140/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84994477344&doi=10.1016%2fj.neucom.2016.08.037&partnerID=40&md5=5b940413f14332dd63cda37f4ebfbe4b

This paper focuses on the enhancement of the generalization ability and training stability of deep neural networks (DNNs). New activation functions that we call bounded rectified linear unit (ReLU), bounded leaky ReLU, and bounded bi-firing are proposed. These activation functions are defined based...