Activation Functions
Gated Linear Unit
Introduced by Dauphin et al. in Language Modeling with Gated Convolutional NetworksA Gated Linear Unit, or GLU computes:
$$ \text{GLU}\left(a, b\right) = a\otimes \sigma\left(b\right) $$
It is used in natural language processing architectures, for example the Gated CNN, because here $b$ is the gate that control what information from $a$ is passed up to the following layer. Intuitively, for a language modeling task, the gating mechanism allows selection of words or features that are important for predicting the next word. The GLU also has non-linear capabilities, but has a linear path for the gradient so diminishes the vanishing gradient problem.
Source: Language Modeling with Gated Convolutional Networks
Papers
| Paper | Code | Results | Date | Stars |
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Tasks
| Task | Papers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Language Modelling | 93 | 9.50% |
| Question Answering | 59 | 6.03% |
| Text Generation | 39 | 3.98% |
| Sentence | 39 | 3.98% |
| Retrieval | 32 | 3.27% |
| Translation | 27 | 2.76% |
| Machine Translation | 22 | 2.25% |
| Natural Language Understanding | 19 | 1.94% |
| Semantic Parsing | 18 | 1.84% |
Usage Over Time
Components
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| 🤖 No Components Found | You can add them if they exist; e.g. Mask R-CNN uses RoIAlign |
