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For questions related to the selection of and theory behind specific activation functions used in artificial networks.

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Why do activation functions need to be differentiable in the context of neural networks?

No, it is not necessary that an activation function is differentiable. In fact, one of the most popular activation functions, the rectifier, is non-differentiable at zero! This can create problems wi …
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