chainer.functions.swish¶

chainer.functions.swish(x, beta)[source]¶

Swish activation function.

\[f(x, \beta) = x \cdot \sigma(\beta x),\]

where \(\sigma(\cdot)\) is the sigmoid function. It has the following properties:

\[\begin{split}f(x, 0) &= \frac{x}{2}, \\ \lim_{\beta \to \infty} f(x, \beta) &= \max(0, x).\end{split}\]

Parameters:	x (Variable) – Input variable of shape \((s_B, s_1, s_2, ..., s_N)\), where \(s_B\) is assumed to be the minibatch dimension. beta (Variable) – Parameter variable \(\beta\) of shape \((s_1, s_2, ..., s_M)\), where \(M\) is an arbitrary integer between \(0 \leq M \leq N\). The number of dimensions of `beta` will be matched with `x` by reshaping it as \((1, s_1, ..., s_M, 1, ... 1)\), then `beta` and `x` are multiplied together in an element-wise manner.
Returns:	Output variable of the same shape as `x`.
Return type:	Variable