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# BNNSActivationFunctionELU

An activation function that evaluates the exponential linear units (ELU) on its input.

```
var BNNSActivationFunctionELU: BNNSActivationFunction { get }
```

## Discussion

This constant defines an activation function that returns values using the following operation:

```
if x < 0
    alpha*(exp(x) - 1)
else
    x
```

The following illustrates the output that the activation function generates from inputs in the range `-10...10` and an `alpha` of `1`:

![Graph that shows input values for the activation function on horizontal axis and its output values on vertical axis. ](images/com.apple.accelerate/media-3560473@2x.png)

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