REVISE SLAVIC LIBRARIANS DIRECTORY

Revise Saturated Activation Functions

In this paper, we revise two commonly used saturated functions, the logistic sigmoid and the hyperbolic tangent (tanh). We point out that, besides the well-known non-zero centered property, slope of the activation function near the origin is another possible reason making training deep networks with the logistic function difficult to train. We demonstrate that, with proper rescaling, the logist...

Bookish Librarians

Our journal is mostly about articles. We consider around a hundred article manuscripts a year, and from those submissions , we select about thirty—we hope the best—for publication. These peer reviewed articles, running 3,000 to 6,000 words in length, usually report the research results of a focused study on a particular process, procedure, or policy stance in academic librarianship. In this cur...

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Department Directory

Department Head: Dan Wilson, [email protected] [7], (434) 924-0193 Collection Development & Management Librarian: Jonathan Lord , [email protected] [8], (434) 924-0059 Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Specialist: Jeri Davis, [email protected] [9], (434) 924-0058 Southwest Virginia Outreach Librarian: Ann Duesing, [email protected] [10], (276) 328-0168 Metadata Services Manager: Abbey Hefli...