Rectified Linear Units Improve Restricted Boltzmann Machines

Rectified Linear Units Improve Restricted Boltzmann Machines — presented at ICML 2010

Why it matters

An early paper demonstrating the advantages of ReLU, which later became the standard activation function

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Officialcs.toronto.eduhttps://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/reluICML.pdf

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