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The aim is to introduce exponential linear units (ELUs) and assess their impact on learning speed and classification accuracy in deep neural networks.

November 23, 2015Open Access

Fast and Accurate Deep Network Learning by Exponential Linear Units (ELUs)

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DCDjork-Arné ClevertPfizer (United States)TUThomas UnterthinerJohannes Kepler University of Linz SHSepp HochreiterLinköping University

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Implication

Randomized trial demonstrates improved classification accuracy in deep neural networks using ELUs, suggesting enhanced learning efficiency.

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The aim is to introduce exponential linear units (ELUs) and assess their impact on learning speed and classification accuracy in deep neural networks.
Implemented ELUs in deep neural networks with more than 5 layers.
Compared performance on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets against ReLUs and LReLUs.
Evaluated learning speed and generalization performance.
ELU networks achieve the best published result on CIFAR-100 with significant performance improvement over ReLU networks (p<0.01).
Less than 10% classification error on ImageNet with ELU networks, compared to ReLU networks.
ELUs lead to faster learning and better generalization performance than ReLUs and LReLUs.

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Clevert et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a07f67cc3448d68e537879a https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1511.07289

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Implication

Randomized trial demonstrates improved classification accuracy in deep neural networks using ELUs, suggesting enhanced learning efficiency.