rectified linear unit
English
editEtymology
editCoined 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
Noun
editrectified linear unit (plural rectified linear units)
- A unit (artificial neuron) in an artificial neural network that employs a rectifier
- The rectifier function itself