Summary of Adaptive Parametric Activation, by Konstantinos Panagiotis Alexandridis et al.
Adaptive Parametric Activation
by Konstantinos Panagiotis Alexandridis, Jiankang Deng, Anh Nguyen, Shan Luo
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates the optimal activation function in neural networks, particularly in classification tasks with imbalanced data. The Sigmoid activation is commonly used but can lead to bias towards frequent classes. The study performs a comprehensive statistical analysis on balanced and imbalanced networks, showing that aligning the activation function with the data distribution enhances performance. A novel Adaptive Parametric Activation (APA) function is proposed, unifying common activation functions under one formula. APA outperforms state-of-the-art models on several imbalanced and balanced benchmarks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us understand which activation function to use in neural networks, especially when the data is not evenly split between different classes. The researchers found that using the right activation function can make a big difference in how well the network performs. They proposed a new way of choosing an activation function that works well for both balanced and imbalanced data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Sigmoid
