""" Know more, visit my tutorial page: https://morvanzhou.github.io/tutorials/ My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MorvanZhou Dependencies: torch: 0.1.11 matplotlib """ import torch import torch.nn.functional as F from torch.autograd import Variable import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # fake data x = torch.linspace(-5, 5, 200) # x data (tensor), shape=(100, 1) x = Variable(x) x_np = x.data.numpy() # numpy array for plotting # following are popular activation functions y_relu = F.relu(x).data.numpy() y_sigmoid = F.sigmoid(x).data.numpy() y_tanh = F.tanh(x).data.numpy() y_softplus = F.softplus(x).data.numpy() # y_softmax = F.softmax(x) softmax is a special kind of activation function, it is about probability # plt to visualize these activation function plt.figure(1, figsize=(8, 6)) plt.subplot(221) plt.plot(x_np, y_relu, c='red', label='relu') plt.ylim((-1, 5)) plt.legend(loc='best') plt.subplot(222) plt.plot(x_np, y_sigmoid, c='red', label='sigmoid') plt.ylim((-0.2, 1.2)) plt.legend(loc='best') plt.subplot(223) plt.plot(x_np, y_tanh, c='red', label='tanh') plt.ylim((-1.2, 1.2)) plt.legend(loc='best') plt.subplot(224) plt.plot(x_np, y_softplus, c='red', label='softplus') plt.ylim((-0.2, 6)) plt.legend(loc='best') plt.show()