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Main Authors: Carrasco, Pablo, Muñoz, Gonzalo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23362
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  • The non-convex nature of trained neural networks has created significant obstacles in their incorporation into optimization models. In this context, Anderson et al. (2020) provided a framework to obtain the convex hull of the graph of a piecewise linear convex activation function composed with an affine function; this effectively convexifies activations such as the ReLU together with the affine transformation that precedes it. In this article, we contribute to this line of work by developing a recursive formula that yields a tight convexification for the composition of an activation with an affine function for a wide scope of activation functions, namely, convex or ``S-shaped". Our approach can be used to efficiently compute separating hyperplanes or determine that none exists in various settings, including non-polyhedral cases.