Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rectified linear unit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: rec-ti-fied -lin-ear u-nit
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A unit (artificial neuron) in an artificial neural network that employs a rectifier.

noun

The rectifier function itself.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

rectified linear units (plural)

Phrases

leaky rectified linear unit

Synonyms

ReLU

Questions

What does rectified linear unit mean?: A unit (artificial neuron) in an artificial neural network that employs a rectifier.
Where does rectified linear unit come from?: 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

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