Vinod Nair and Geoffrey Hinton published a landmark paper at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) proving that substituting traditional sigmoid or tanh functions with Rectified Linear Units (ReLU) drastically accelerated the training speed of deep neural networks. This simple mathematical adjustment shattered the vanishing gradient problem for deep feedforward architectures without requiring slow, unsupervised pre-training layers.
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