rectified linear unit
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Vinod Nair and Geoffrey Hinton in 2010 after linear units used earlier. Displaced earlier term "analog threshold element" which hasn't caught on in 1969
Noun
[edit]rectified linear unit (plural rectified linear units)
- A unit (artificial neuron) in an artificial neural network that employs a rectifier
- The rectifier function itself