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Currently Playing: The GELU, SiLU and SwiGLU activation functions, clearly explained!!!

There's a new activation function in town. Actually, there are a bunch of new activation functions in town. This StatQuest gives you the essential information you need at the very start, followed by a surprisingly interesting derivation of each of these new activation functions. It turns out that Dropout is all you need. Who knew? If you'd like to support StatQuest, please consider... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statquest ...or... YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtYLUTtgS3k1Fg4y5tAhLbw/join ...buying a book, a study guide, a t-shirt or hoodie, or a song from the StatQuest store... https://statquest.org/statquest-store/ ...or just donating to StatQuest! paypal: https://www.paypal.me/statquest venmo: @JoshStarmer Lastly, if you want to keep up with me as I research and create new StatQuests, follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/joshuastarmer 0:00 Awesome song and introduction 0:45 TL;DW (too long, didn't watch) 3:06 Background and why the Sigmoid and ReLU activation functions fail 9:18 How dropout improves training 11:16 GELU = Input dependent dropout 16:54 General equation for a class of activation functions 18:13 SiLU = Input dependent dropout 19:20 SwiGLU = Input dependent dropout with two extra weights. #StatQuest


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