English Explanatory Dictionary

rectified linear unit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A unit (artificial neuron) in an artificial neural network that employs a rectifier
  2. The rectifier function itself

Word forms

rectified linear unit rectified linear units

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

Synonyms

ReLU
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