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Training

While "running" a neural network can be done with any activation functions, we usually want to train it - i.e., adjust its parameters so that the result would be closer to what we desire.

This is commonly done by Backpropagationbackpropagation and variations of gradient descent, which requires the existence of a gradient - i.e., requires activation function to be differentiable - because the. The adjustment of each parameter is calculated from the derivationgradient of the activation function(s) that this parameter affects, so if you cannot get a gradient, then this approach can't be used.

Training

While "running" a neural network can be done with any activation functions, we usually want to train it - i.e., adjust its parameters so that the result would be closer to what we desire.

This is commonly done by Backpropagation, which requires the activation function to be differentiable - because the adjustment of each parameter is calculated from the derivation of the activation function(s) that this parameter affects.

Training

While "running" a neural network can be done with any activation functions, we usually want to train it - i.e., adjust its parameters so that the result would be closer to what we desire.

This is commonly done by backpropagation and variations of gradient descent, which requires the existence of a gradient - i.e., requires activation function to be differentiable. The adjustment of each parameter is calculated from the gradient of the activation function(s) that this parameter affects, so if you cannot get a gradient, then this approach can't be used.

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Training

While "running" a neural network can be done with any activation functions, we usually want to train it - i.e., adjust its parameters so that the result would be closer to what we desire.

This is commonly done by Backpropagation, which requires the activation function to be differentiable - because the adjustment of each parameter is calculated from the derivation of the activation function(s) that this parameter affects.