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# Bridging Nonlinearities and Stochastic Regularizers with Gaussian Error Linear Units

@article{Hendrycks2016BridgingNA,
title={Bridging Nonlinearities and Stochastic Regularizers with Gaussian Error Linear Units},
author={Dan Hendrycks and Kevin Gimpel},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2016},
volume={abs/1606.08415}
}
• Published 27 June 2016
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
We propose the Gaussian Error Linear Unit (GELU), a high-performing neural network activation function. The GELU nonlinearity is the expected transformation of a stochastic regularizer which randomly applies the identity or zero map, combining the intuitions of dropout and zoneout while respecting neuron values. This connection suggests a new probabilistic understanding of nonlinearities. We perform an empirical evaluation of the GELU nonlinearity against the ReLU and ELU activations and find…
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