SBAF: A New Activation Function for Artificial Neural Net based Habitability Classification [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01844


We explore the efficacy of using a novel activation function in Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) in characterizing exoplanets into different classes. We call this Saha-Bora Activation Function (SBAF) as the motivation is derived from long standing understanding of using advanced calculus in modeling habitability score of Exoplanets. The function is demonstrated to possess nice analytical properties and doesn’t seem to suffer from local oscillation problems. The manuscript presents the analytical properties of the activation function and the architecture implemented on the function. Keywords: Astroinformatics, Machine Learning, Exoplanets, ANN, Activation Function.

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S. Saha, A. Mathur, K. Bora, et. al.
Thu, 7 Jun 18
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Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1805.08810