Competition-based Adaptive ReLU for Deep Neural Networks

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author Chen, Junjia
Pan, Zhibin
author_facet Chen, Junjia
Pan, Zhibin
contents Activation functions introduce nonlinearity into deep neural networks. Most popular activation functions allow positive values to pass through while blocking or suppressing negative values. From the idea that positive values and negative values are equally important, and they must compete for activation, we proposed a new Competition-based Adaptive ReLU (CAReLU). CAReLU scales the input values based on the competition results between positive values and negative values. It defines two parameters to adjust the scaling strategy and can be trained uniformly with other network parameters. We verify the effectiveness of CAReLU on image classification, super-resolution, and natural language processing tasks. In the experiment, our method performs better than other widely used activation functions. In the case of replacing ReLU in ResNet-18 with our proposed activation function, it improves the classification accuracy on the CIFAR-100 dataset. The effectiveness and the new perspective on the utilization of competition results between positive values and negative values make CAReLU a promising activation function.
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spellingShingle Competition-based Adaptive ReLU for Deep Neural Networks
Chen, Junjia
Pan, Zhibin
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Activation functions introduce nonlinearity into deep neural networks. Most popular activation functions allow positive values to pass through while blocking or suppressing negative values. From the idea that positive values and negative values are equally important, and they must compete for activation, we proposed a new Competition-based Adaptive ReLU (CAReLU). CAReLU scales the input values based on the competition results between positive values and negative values. It defines two parameters to adjust the scaling strategy and can be trained uniformly with other network parameters. We verify the effectiveness of CAReLU on image classification, super-resolution, and natural language processing tasks. In the experiment, our method performs better than other widely used activation functions. In the case of replacing ReLU in ResNet-18 with our proposed activation function, it improves the classification accuracy on the CIFAR-100 dataset. The effectiveness and the new perspective on the utilization of competition results between positive values and negative values make CAReLU a promising activation function.
title Competition-based Adaptive ReLU for Deep Neural Networks
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19441