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Scaled Exponential Linear Unit (SELU).
tf.keras.activations.selu(
x
)
The Scaled Exponential Linear Unit (SELU) activation function is:
scale * x
if x > 0
and scale * alpha * (exp(x) - 1)
if x < 0
where alpha
and scale
are pre-defined constants
(alpha = 1.67326324
and scale = 1.05070098
).
The SELU activation function multiplies scale
> 1 with the
[elu](https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r2.0/api_docs/python/tf/keras/activations/elu)
(Exponential Linear Unit (ELU)) to ensure a slope larger than one
for positive net inputs.
The values of alpha
and scale
are
chosen so that the mean and variance of the inputs are preserved
between two consecutive layers as long as the weights are initialized
correctly (see lecun_normal
initialization)
and the number of inputs is "large enough"
(see references for more information).
![]https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*m0e8lZU_Zrkh4ESfQkY2Pw.png (Courtesy: Blog on Towards DataScience at https://towardsdatascience.com/selu-make-fnns-great-again-snn-8d61526802a9)
Example Usage:
n_classes = 10 #10_class problem
from tensorflow.python.keras.layers import Dense
model = tf.keras.Sequential()
model.add(Dense(64, kernel_initializer='lecun_normal',
activation='selu', input_shape=(28, 28, 1)))
model.add(Dense(32, kernel_initializer='lecun_normal',
activation='selu'))
model.add(Dense(16, kernel_initializer='lecun_normal',
activation='selu'))
model.add(Dense(n_classes, activation='softmax'))
Arguments | |
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x
|
A tensor or variable to compute the activation function for. |
Returns | |
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The scaled exponential unit activation: scale * elu(x, alpha) .
|
Note
- To be used together with the initialization "[lecun_normal]
(https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/keras/initializers/lecun_normal)".
- To be used together with the dropout variant "[AlphaDropout]
(https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/keras/layers/AlphaDropout)".