Technology of Graphic & Image
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3145-3147,3178

Improved activation function based on power linear unit

Luo Xunhao
Li Peihua
Faculty of Electronic Information & Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian Liaoning 116024, China

Abstract

Aiming at the problem that ReLU completely discards negative activations which often contain much information. Based on the research of parametric rectified linear unit(PReLU) and exponential linear unit(ELU), this paper proposed a novel parametric activation function called power linear unit(PoLU). The proposed PoLU performed the signed power non-linear transformation on negative activations. It adaptively learned the parameters of power function during the training process of CNN. Meanwhile, PoLU remained the positive activations unchanged. It efficiently implemented PoLU and be flexibly adopted to various CNN. The experimental results on widely-used CIFAR-10/100 benchmarks demonstrate that PoLU is much better than ReLU and outperforms its counterparts.

Foundation Support

国家自然科学基金资助项目(61471082)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2018.04.0331
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Printed Article, Vol. 36, 2019 No. 10
Section: Technology of Graphic & Image
Pages: 3145-3147,3178
Serial Number: 1001-3695(2019)10-059-3145-03

Publish History

[2019-10-05] Printed Article

Cite This Article

骆训浩, 李培华. 一种改进的基于幂线性单元的激活函数 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2019, 36 (10): 3145-3147,3178. (Luo Xunhao, Li Peihua. Improved activation function based on power linear unit [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2019, 36 (10): 3145-3147,3178. )

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