tansig

Hyperbolic tangent sigmoid transfer function

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Syntax

A = tansig(N)

Description

Tip

To use a hyperbolic tangent activation for deep learning, use the tanhLayer function or the dlarray method tanh.

A = tansig(N) takes a matrix of net input vectors, N and returns the S-by-Q matrix, A, of the elements of N squashed into [-1 1].

Plot of the hyperbolic tangent sigmoid transfer function.

tansig is a neural transfer function. Transfer functions calculate the output of a layer from its net input.

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Examples

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This example shows how to calculate and plot the hyperbolic tangent sigmoid transfer function of an input matrix.

Create the input matrix, n. Then call the tansig function and plot the results.

n = -5:0.1:5;
a = tansig(n);
plot(n,a)

Assign this transfer function to layer i of a network.

net.layers{i}.transferFcn = 'tansig';

Input Arguments

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Net input column vectors, specified as an S-by-Q matrix.

Output Arguments

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Output vectors, returned as an S-by-Q matrix, where each element of N is squashed from the interval [-inf inf] to the interval [-1 1] with an "S-shaped" function.

Algorithms

a = tansig(N) = 2/(1+exp(-2*N))-1

This is mathematically equivalent to tanh(N).

References

[1] Vogl, T. P., et al. ‘Accelerating the Convergence of the Back-Propagation Method’. Biological Cybernetics, vol. 59, no. 4–5, Sept. 1988, pp. 257–63. DOI.org (Crossref), doi:10.1007/BF00332914.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

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