Hello! Is it possible to set user defined activation function for a layer in neural network?
If this feature is not yet part of WL, are there any plans for such an addition as it would be very helpful.
ElementwiseLayer[f] allows you to define a layer with a custom activation function f applied to each element of the input:
@narendra : out of curiosity, is there are particular activation you are trying to implement yourself?
@Sebastian Bodenstein Yes, I am currently writing a paper on activation functions based on fractional calculus. I am currently implementing it in python, however Wolfram would be much better fit for it due to it having inbuilt functions from fractional calculus from which I derive my specific function.
However when I try to use it with ElementwiseLayer, it gives an error of ElementwiseLayer::invscf: my_func could not be symbolically evaluated as a unary scalar function.
(Interestingly, it is a unary scalar function because it can be plotted using only one variable and gives out scalar values when individually applied over scalar values)
@narendra it is always helpful to post a complete code resulting in the error: http://wolfr.am/READ-1ST
@SĂ©bastien Guillet While I can not disclose the exact details as I am currently not finished writing the paper yet, ElementWiseLayer does not do well with many functions beyond the normal commonly used ones.
Example: The recently popular Swish Activation Function which performs better than ReLU in most cases. It is defined as x*sigmoid(x)
elem = ElementwiseLayer[x*LogisticSigmoid[x]]
gives an error
ElementwiseLayer::invscf: x LogisticSigmoid[x] could not be
symbolically evaluated as a unary scalar function.
This is the same error I am receiving whenever the complexity of function is a little more than exponential or tanh.
True! @narendra I recommend reading tutorial on Pure Functions:
Here’s an example how to implement somewhat more complex like differential equations: ODEs, SDEs, etc. into ElementwiseLayer[…]:
DiffEq in Neural Net
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Depending on the result representation with or without Normal[…] to get the value(s).