rectified linear unit
nounEtymology 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
1
A unit (artificial neuron) in an artificial neural network that employs a rectifier.
2
The rectifier function itself.
- Synonyms
- ReLU
- Derived terms
- leaky rectified linear unit