Tanh vs Sigmoid vs ReLU
⚖️ Tanh vs Sigmoid vs ReLU Property Sigmoid Tanh ReLU Formula 1 1 + e − z \frac{1}{1+e^{-z}} e z − e − z e z + e − z \frac{e^z-e^{-z}}{e^z+e^{-z}} max ( 0 , z ) \max(0,z) Range ( 0 , 1 ) (0,1) ( − 1 , 1 ) (-1,1) [ 0 , ∞ ) [0,\infty) Nonlinear Yes Yes Yes Zero-centered ❌ ✅ ❌ Saturates Both sides Both sides Positive side: No Vanishing gradient Yes Yes Reduced for positive inputs Main issue Vanishing gradients Vanishing gradients Dying ReLU Typical use Binary output Some hidden/RNN layers Hidden layers