{
  "id": "2202.00004",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2022-01-29T12:40:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2022-01-29T12:40:32.000Z",
  "title": "On Polynomial Approximation of Activation Function",
  "authors": [
    "John Chiang"
  ],
  "comment": "In this work, we proposed an interesting method to approximate the activation function by a polynomial the degree of which is preset low. Our method to approximate the activation function is much more flexible compared to the least square method in the sense that the additional parameters could better control the shape of the resulting polynomial to approximate",
  "categories": [
    "cs.LG",
    "cs.CR"
  ],
  "abstract": "In this work, we propose an interesting method that aims to approximate an activation function over some domain by polynomials of the presupposing low degree. The main idea behind this method can be seen as an extension of the ordinary least square method and includes the gradient of activation function into the cost function to minimize.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2022-01-29T12:40:32.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "activation function",
      "polynomial approximation",
      "main idea",
      "cost function",
      "square method"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}