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bundles / scipy latest / scipy / special / _basic / softplus

function

scipy.special._basic:softplus

source: /scipy/special/_basic.py :3352

Signature

def   softplus ( x ** kwargs )

Summary

Compute the softplus function element-wise.

Extended Summary

The softplus function is defined as: softplus(x) = log(1 + exp(x)). It is a smooth approximation of the rectifier function (ReLU).

Parameters

x : array_like

Input value.

**kwargs

For other keyword-only arguments, see the ufunc docs.

Returns

softplus : ndarray

Logarithm of exp(0) + exp(x).

Examples

from scipy import special
special.softplus(0)
special.softplus([-1, 0, 1])

Aliases

  • scipy.special.softplus

Referenced by

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