SmartMixed

SmartMixed: A Two-Phase Training Strategy for Adaptive Activation Function Learning in Neural Networks

Announce Type: replace Abstract: The choice of activation function plays a critical role in neural networks, yet most architectures still rely on fixed, uniform activation functions across all neurons. We introduce SmartMixed, a novel two-phase training strategy that allows networks to learn optimal per-neuron activation functions while preserving computational efficiency at inference. In the first phase, neurons adaptively select from a pool of candidate activation functions (ReLU, Sigmoid,...