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noun
A unit (artificial neuron) in an artificial neural network that employs a rectifier.
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noun
The rectifier function itself.
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History
Coined by Vinod Nair and Geoffrey Hinton in 2010 after linear units used earlier. Displaced earlier term "analog threshold element" which hasn't caught on in 1969
