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I spent two weeks testing my own activation function with preregistration – here's what survived

I'm an IT admin, not an ML researcher. I wanted to know whether a bounded version of ELU/SELU could train very deep networks without normalization. The honest result: after fair tuning it matches SELU at 50 and 100 layers. One variant is better in one setting (MNIST, depth 100). Plain ELU is about…

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  1. 2026-10-26 22:01 · r/learnmachinelearning
    I spent two weeks testing my own activation function with preregistration – here's what survived

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