#009 Activation functions and their derivatives Master Data Science

Now, it's clear that if we use a linear activation function (identity activation function), then the Neural Network will output linear output of the input. This loses much of the representational power of the neural network as often times the output that we are trying to predict has a non-linear relationship with the inputs. It can be shown that if we use a linear activation function for a hidden layer and sigmoid function for an output layer, our model becomes logistic regression model. Due to the fact that a composition of two linear functions is linear function, our area of implementing such Neural Network reduces rapidly. Rare implementation example can be solving regression problem in machine learning (where we use linear activation function in hidden layer).